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SPOTTING MAGAZINE. 



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€tag*s Head, an Bngraving * Page 1 

Canterbiuy Baces . ..^ 1 

ByiagChllden .».. ..4 > ft 

Mr. Joseph Bland's Appeal to the Public . . ft 

Cruelty to Horses . .* .. .k 8 

Goddphtn Arabian 

Coach-Office Depredations 10 

Keir Drama* called ** The ifithiop^ 11 

Hardships arising from the Game Laws ... 19 
Opetiing and Description of new Drary-Lane 

Theatre .^.. » 15 

The Breton, a Fragment 17 

Fatal Duelling SO 

Certain Common Errors in the IVeatment of 

the Horse ftft 

On Critics ... 35 

'Winoecs of the St. I^eger Stakes at Doncaster, 

frota their Commencement t 96 

• An Eltxtiou Scene in a Countty Boro||gh.. 87 
Description of a Convict SlUp so 



CONTENTS. 

Card-playing Censured '.Page 31 

Boxing between Holloway and Ford :. 93 

Newmarket Second October and Houghton 

Meetings S4 

JnylngLeap .. * . ..*. .* H 

FEAST OF WIT * 35 



SPOirriNG INTEIJ.IOBNCE 97 

IV) Correspondents 4 46 

POETRY". 

Glory at Home t 41 

The Pleasures of Coursing. i 41 

Address, spoken by Mr. Ellfston, at the Open- 
ing of Neilr DruiyJLane Theatre 4ft 

Sailor Tom 49 

Hunting Song 49 

The Wounded Crow « ... . 44 

A Declaration of Love.. 44 

BACIVG CALENDAR .. ... ..... ; 1 



t,' A beautifitl Engraving of a Stag's Head. 
II. Fltino Leap, an Etching, 



STAGES HEAD. 

Taken fiom the Life, by Coopek, and 
* engraved by Scott. 



CANTERBITRY RACES. 



^HIS Engravings executed in 
Mr. Scotfs best style, is de^ 
rived from an eifort of Mr. Cooper^ 
who, for the sake of nature and ac- 
curacy, ))ecame an associate with a 
herd of deer in Richmoud Park* 
Under a huge oak be took bis stand, 
and, as near his four-footed friends 
as they chose to admit his ap- 
pi'oacb,* he drew forth his pencil 
and sketched' the portrait annexed. 
Returning to town it was trans* 
fet red to the canvas, and this Print, 
with the aid of Mr. Scott, is the re- 
ittk of bis genius and his labours. 



To the Editor of the Sporting M<i* 
gazine, 

SIR, ' 

TN your Racing Calendar of last 
Mouth, the statement of the 
sport for tb<i third day of these races 
was quite erroneous. Knowing 
that it is of great consequence to 
the owners of the horses that it 
should ap|»ear correct, and the cir- 
cumstances attending thereon be 
made public, I beg to send you the 
account, leaving it to your own 
judgment and discretion if you 
think it worth inserting. 

The horses that ran for the plate 

(which was a subscription from 

the Citizens, and hence fotitled 

A the 



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tlie. City plate) were, Haujlet, by last publication on horses. Tbit 
Hatiibleiouian; Expectation, by' I apprehend to be a mistake, as all 
Orvillej and Evington Lass, by the portraits of Cbilders represent 
Walton. The first beat was ob- him as a lay borse. Perhaps s6me 
tained by Hamlet, after a tolerably of your correspondents may be able 
smart run between him and Expec- to account for this contradiction. — 
tation: the second, in all probabi^ I am, &c. 

lity, Ex|>ectation would have won, A Constant Reader. 

had he not i-un against a young Newmarket^ Oct. i6. 

woinan, who bad imprudently got .., ., 

ivithin the lines, whom he knocked 

down and very much bruised. This MR. JOSEPH BLAND'S APPEAL 
happened within a quarter of a TO THE PUBLIC, 

mile of the winning post, when he - 

wasat the height of bis speed, and T^HROUGH the medinm of a 
about a length before IJaralet. By friend at Newmarket, we have 

the extraordinary exertion of his received a copy of an ap|>eal lately 
rider (C. Paget), he was prevcnteil made to the Public by the above 
from falling, but the shock he re- Gentleman, in vhidication of hiai- 
ceived was too violent to be reco- self against a charge of having 
rercdj Hamlet, at that moment, been concerned with Dawson in 
passed him, and won with the those nefarious transactions, for 
greatest ease. which he lately suffered the awful 

I have betn in the habit of at- penalty of the law. We give it as 
tending these races for a great received by us, without note or 
many meetings, and never saw so comment. 
little attention paid to the impor^ — — 

tant duty of clearing the cofirse, as To the Honourable Members of the 
there has been for the last two or Jockey Club, and the GentlenuH 
three years ; and it is to be feared. Frequenters of the Turf. 
unless there is a more systematical Gentlemen,— A very painful 
method adopted, accidents like the office devolves on me in addressing 
above, and perhaps of much great- you on a subject which is much to 
er consequence, will often occur, be regretted, and which has had 
—I remam, your obedient servant, great effect in curbing the diver- 
A L«VER OF THE SpoRTS OP »ions of the turf: I mean the POI- 
THE Turf. »oning of race horses. I must 

Canterbury, Oct. 14, i^ti. fi»st beg to state, that no man 

holds the act for which Dawson, 
-t.. ■ , y ' V the self-acknowledged offender, 

. suffered the sentence of the law, iu 

FLYING CHILD ERS. more abhorrence than myself 5 aiki 

.. M from the number of years 1 have 

To the Editor of the Spartmg Ma-^ had the unspeakable honour of be- 

gazine. ing countenanced by many distin- 

siR^ g;uished gentlemen of the turf, it 

? Have observed that Flying Cbil- cannot but be conceived that I 

ders is described as a chesnut must have felt, in common with 

horse, both in Mr. Pick's Turf all sporting men who have a parti- 

Hegister, and in Air. Lawi eu€« j file of honour about th«ai, the etilii 

which 



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wliicb inust have arisen from the answer must be this : It is said 
vile act of physicking, not to say loosely, without ever having beea 
of poisoning, horses ^ that it wotihl committed to print, or without otie 
cut up horse-racing altogether, solit-ai-y" affidavit, that Dawson 
and that those who make such a should) shy, / was in the business: 
part of business, must inevitably be and even taking that Jor granted, 
proportionate sufferei-s to those I shall, by-and-by, shew in colours 
gentlemen who should lose part of which cannot deceive, the stimulus, 
their stud. With these feelings, the secret machine, by which this 
Gentlemen, which I profess, and said loose assertion was made, 
which many of you whom I am ad- But before I comment further on 
dreiising, who know me, cati judge the case, I shall lay before you a 
of, what must have been my situa- very exact state of my betting 
tion when I first heard it whis- upon the race for the Pavillion 
pered that f wa5 an accomplice of Stakes, and upon that alone 1 
Dawson: Gentlemen, clothe your- would presume, the gentlemen who 
selves in innocence, and you will know the nature of my turf trans- 
better judge of the shock I sus- actions, would be satisfied of my 
tained than can be described by my perfect innocence. I would im- 
})cn. Many months have occurred press on the minds of those I am 
since this false, malignant slander addressing, that in no part of the 
assailed me : and I had no ap|)eal, evidence, on either trial, has my 
because there was no charge name been mentioned, or even al- 
against me of which I could judge, luded to. The reason is obvious : 
It was like the serpent emitting his 1 -declare solemnly l)<^fore God, I 
venom : it was the secret slander of should not know Bishop if I Were 
a malignant few. Under these cir- to see him, nor do I ever recollect 
cumstances, I waited patiently the hearing of his name, until in Gom- 
next trial of Dawson, but what mon conversation, when Dawson 
has been the result? slander has was apprehended. Is tbera no kind 
multiplied, although, as on the first of corroborating circumstances to 
trial, no mention was made of my connect me at all in this foul con* 
name 5 but, it is said.*— Ah, but spiracy? No meetings, no verbal 
Dawson said, '' Bland knew of messages, no intimacy, no commit* 
this thing in 1 8O9, but he did not nications by a third person ? I 
know any thing of the business of would ask, if there be the slightest 
1811." Now, Gentlemen, this is shadow of connection in any way, 
a most important feature, to shew that it be immediately promulgate 
you the foul conspiracy which has ed ; my character demands it : and 
assailed me. A publication of the taking it for granted that Dawson 
trial has since appeared, but no said a something about me, 1 had 
mention has been made relative to rather it may turn out so, because 
me ; no, surely the writer would I have the means of shewing the 
not hazard it : but had he done so, intent. 

1 should have had a more favour- I shall first proceed to lay be- 
able opportunity of defending my- fore the public my bets on the Pa- 
self. Then how do I stand? the villioustakes, at Brighton, in 1 60S. 

THE PAVILLION STAKES. 

20 to 30 Vandyke against the field Lord Henry. 

20 -~ 3(^ Ditto. . ». . . •« ditto .James Bland* 

A 2 60 to 



4 TUB SPORTING BfAGAZINE. 

(50 to 40 Vandyke against Rubens, both start A.Shaksfieare, Esq. 
20—35 Ruheos against Vandyke, both start Mr. Cloves. 
150 -* too Against Rubens, Rubens and Van- 
dyke to stl^.^^ii^ A. Shakspeare, Esq. 

100 — 80 Vandyke agalf^sTnubens Ditto. 

20 — 100 Chetiter afainsi tb j Held, if he sUrt Mr. Ciockford. 

6 — 2 Against Cbester, if be start Mr. Valet. 

25 — - 30 Rubens against Vandyke Colonel Draper. 

50 — 55 Rubens aj^aiast Vandyke Mr. Gilieoraud. 

50 — 20 Against Vandyke, for the Pavillion, 

and Plover for the stake Mr. Crockford. 

50 — 125 Vandyke and Ploveis, both win .... Lord Darlington. 

JO— 10 Against Vandyke Mr. Saunders. 

35 — 11 Against Rubens Mr. Yateman. 

20 — 120 Trafalgar against the field Mr. Cloves. 

60 — 10 Against Trafalgar Mr. Bradley. 

14 — 2 Against Kellern)an*s colt Dawson. 

5 ■— 5 . Vandyke .*.... Mr. Spring. 

25 — 30 Against Vandyke General Onslow. 

60 — 12 Against Keliernian^s colt General Onslow. 

20 — 20 Vaudyke Mr. Adams. 

5 — 5 Ditto Mr. Chitty. 

20 — 20 Vandyke Mr. Scbooley. 

6p — 20 Against Rubens T. Thornbill, Esq. 

25 — 30 Against Vandyke Mr. Sanders. 

12 — 10 Vandyke Mr. Abbey. 

These were the whole of my bets trivial sum compared to what I. am 
on the Pavillion race, and 1 defy in the habit of betting; and I need 
any man on earth to state any not state to you the Pavillion was 
other. It will be perceived by this a sporting race, and I could have 
statement, that the amount of my betted thousands, if I had a know- 
losing was /Aree AundreJ and ^Airiy« ledge of, and had been base 
Jwe guineas on balance, three hun- enough, and dishonouiableenough, 
dred and ten of which was lost to to have lent myself to the vile act. 
A. Sfaakspeare, Esq. and was bet But, Gentlemen, you will perceive, 
soon after the Derby race. Now, by my statement of betting, that I 
Gentleinen, I appeal not to your kept hedging to. my bets' as I laid 
feelings, but to your understand- them, and my losing was all to A. 
ings, whether it can be surmised Shakspeare, Esq. with the excep- 
for one moment that I could possi* tion of itventy-Jive guineas ; and 
biy have any knowledge of the that money, so lost, was betted 
physicking transaction; and al- soon after the Derby race. With 
though 1 feel sanguine that I mu«t respect to my mottvie for backing 
stand acquitted upon the face of Vandyke, I need only say a word 
the betting itself, yet I must beg or two : Vandyke beat Rubens, 
to occupy your time for a minute equal weights, for the Derby, and 
or two in further vindication of this was the ground upon which 1 
myself. It is generally known, backed him, uninfluenced by any 
that the whole amount of my bets other consideration. GentliMnen, 
on the PasUUon race was a mere this is a statcmeat unadorned, 

which 



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i;rbi<;b mii^t acqjiU me with ypuf 
and I will ((efy th^ slander o£' my 
dastardly enemies, by any sophistry 
tbey might employ, to dp aw^y 
this plain statement, or to peisuade 
the world that I have not here 
given irrefragable proofs of my in- 
nocence. 

For the want of some document, 
or the candour of those who affect 
to know what Pawsou said in pri- 
son, I am at a loss to know whether 
I am further charged ; but, as I 
am proceeding on my defence, 
vrithout public accusation (for si- 
lence would probably be a triumph 
to my enemies), I shall first pro- 
ceed to the St. Leger race, at 
Doucaster, in 1808. Had Clinker 
won that race, I should have won 
two thousand seven hundred gui- 
neas; but, by Petronius winning, 
I was a loser ot eighty- four gui- 
neas. I backed Clinker, by tak- 
ing the odds to 100 guineas, at 
five and six to one, on tbe night af- 
ter he run for the,Derby ; and upon 
this strong ground, having been 
informed, by the jockey who rode 



mic to say, that " b« did ^ot stand 
a guinea with me.** It will be now 
necessary for me to recur to the 
(oUovviug spring, at Epsom, in or- 
der to shew my disposition and 
aborrence, at all times, at any 
(ricks which might be played wit^ 
horses i apd d^^o to demonstrate 
that suvh proceedings would at ^11 
tiujes seripusly aflGect my interest. 
i stood to win two thousand Jive 
hundred guineas on the Derby race* 
had Wizard won : and about a 
week before tbe race it was inti- 
mated to ine, by one Robert Bi- 
shop, fprmerJy servant to the late 
Duke of Bedford, that; tricks were 
about to be played with Wizard^ 
anil I lost ,uo time in letting the 
trainer know of such intimation to 
me, to put him on his guard. I can 
prove this fact, as also any other I 
state, by affidavit ; and I defy con- 
tradiction to this, or to any thin^^ 
which 1 here state. 

Bishop died two years ago, and 
many persons can prove having 
heard bim say he could expose 
something which bad been done to 



Clinker f that l^ad he had a running prevent hQj:ses winning ; and I 

rein as be could have wished, so merely mention this as a circum- 

that he could have held hinri, he stance, that when I am speaking of 

would have stood a good chance of a man who is dead, no advantage 



wjnnjn^ that race. I qeed not re- 
mind the gentlen>en of the turf, 
that ray system of betting varies 
froni that of. most people, and 
where I fancy a horse, I often 
stand a heavy stake upon bim alone. 
A rumour has reached my ear, that 
it has been said Dawson sent to. 
the stand to say he wished to go 
ten guineas with me ; and I mention 



mii^bt be taken on that bead. 

It appeal's by jthe evidence of 
Cecil Bishpp, Dawson's accoui- 
pUce, and it is said to Lave been 
coufirraed hy. others, that Spaniard 
had been oflencr physicked than 
any other horse j and I have to 
state, that 1 lost money by backing 
Spaniard every time be run \n\t 
twice, when Florival beat him in a 



^ this, as not concealing any act of sweepstakes, and when Tumbler 
min^, but embracing in my state- beat bim : my motive for backing 



nient every thing relative to my 
Knowledge of Dawson, which the 
malicious might construe against 
ineu I have Hyp recollection of such 
a milage ^ but this I will take 014 



Florival was, because Spaniards 
party was hacking against him ; 
that is to say, I^itt am. Prince's in- 
timate friend, was backing Flori" 
val; audit has been crcdiidy re- 
ported. 



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pOTted, that Prince won thirteen 
hundred guineas upon that race, 
the tnjth of which I am tolerably 
confirmed in, b^ the assertions of 
many, and from the manner the 
race was run. Spaniard was al- 
lowed to be the speediest horse of 
the day, hul he made the running 
$o desperate, as actually to beat 
Itimself. The motive which in- 
dnced me to back Tumbler was, 
that Spaniard gave him the year 
and two pounds, and I stoorl on 
bim against the field, a thing not 
vnnsnai with me, as before ob- 
•erved. When Britannia beat 
Spaniard for the Claret, 1 lost 
30O guineas and upwanls. When 
Pcpe beat Spaniard, I lost 600 
guineas; and 1 bet five Jifties to 
0tre against Pope at starting. — 
WTien Wizard beat Spaniard the 
two middle miles,! lost 100 goi- 
Aeas, but of this race I have no ac- 
cotmt in my book ; but my memory 
Irrrnisfies me with having bet the 
Hon. G. Watson 35 guineas to 10, 
srnd the Tike odds with William 
Hoffand at starting. 

When Discount beat Spaniard 
for the OatTands, I lost seventy 
girineas. 

1 am given to understand, that 
iny reported knowledge of the poi- 
soning in I8O9 has vanished, and 
1 contend that of the Pavillion 
stakes must too } but mark, Gen- 
fFeraon, the sophisticated art and 
running which has been studiously 
rrsorto(t to on this occasion, by the 
■vile slanderers who assail me.— 
Klan.i, until very lately, was con- 
romcd in the poisoning of 1811; 
Vrrt it was afterwards found, that 
i\ wouhl be necessary to relincpiish 
that accusation : because, on en- 
<fuiry into the business, it was 
found, that this said object of accu- 
sation was/ the very man who was 
the means of appn'zrng Prince that 



he had reason to understand, from 
what he had heard, that something 
was goiifg on to injure the horses. 
I can prove, Gentleuien, by affida- 
vits of persons of the first resjjec* 
tability, that such accusation did 
^xist against me, until the barba- 
rous conspirators felt, that if they 
proceeded, guilt would reverberate 
upon their own beads, and they 
wouh^ \re held up to the merited 
degradation and contempt of the 
world. Gentlemen, my motive is 
a plain narrative of facts, and I 
wish to avoid declamation ; but I 
ask you, upon your honour, and 
upon every Iflieral principle of feel- 
ing, wlretber my statement, relative 
to the Pavillion stakes at Brigh- 
ton, has not most completely falsi- 
fied the alledged statement of any 
knowledge of that nefarious trans- 
action, with which, it seems, I am 
now alone accused. It win be ne- 
cessary, lest at any future period a 
fabricated story should he raised 
of any gnihy knowledge or conni- 
vance on my part, that 1 should 
claim your attention to my situa- 
tion with respect to betting, &.c. 
on that event. Had Pirouette won 
the Ctaret, I should have won 
four thousand seven hundred and 
seventy-three guineas ; but as Cris^ 
pin won, I lost fifteen hundred and 
twenty guineas, I have not the 
means of knowing whether Prince 
and his friend betted against Pi' 
rouette ; but of one thing I am 
certain, that they betteil a great 
stake against the Dandy. 

My earnest motive, as I have 
before observed, is to state my 
whole transactions with Dawson 
in any part of my life. In the race 
betwixt Clinker and Juniper, I 
stood 300 guineas on Clinker, and 
won. Dawson, who was intimate 
with Clinkefs trainer, asked to 
stand ten guineas with roe, and I 

allowed 



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allowed bim to do so. In the same 
week, Dawson heard Qie take fifty 
to forty that Lord Egremoni won 
the October Oatlands ; and^ at his 
request, I suffered him to stand 
with me five half-guineas to fout, 
I also let him stand five gtlineas 
even with me on H'txavd for the 
Derby. These are all the bets 
Dawson ever bad with me, except- 
ing a trivial thing at £ibury, of 
which I have no acrount. 

Having thus gone through my 



cerned with a man who has suffer* 
ed the sentence of the law, is M- 
cretly whispered against me, with- 
out the slightest pretensions to 
truth, and upon what grounds? 
Why, because some three or tour 
people have set it on foot, that 
Dawson impeached me whilst in 
Cambridge gaol ! Let the propa- 
gators of that alledged Impeach- 
nient make it public, and with its 
full force. Had they done so, I 
should have had a much better op- 



statement of betting in that sort of portunity of refuting such derlara- 

detail, which, I feel great coufi- tion. But, taking it for granted 

dence, cannot fail to relieve me that it happened, upon no law or 

from a painful anxiety by your antliority, nor upon any principle 

avowal of my innocence, in any of honest feeling between man and 

sort of connivance of a deed which man, can the very impeachable 

1 hold in the greatest detestation, testimony of an illiterate, deluded 

1 cannot close this without a fur- man, like the late Dawson, be re- 

ther ap{)eftl to your uuilerstand- ceived. What were the motives 

ings, by which no liberal mind can which induced him to make any 



for a moment doubt the sincerity 
and truth of these my assertions. 
First, with respect to my know- 
ledge of Dawson, it extended no 
further than that sort of casual 
intercourse, which even gentle- 
men of the turf bad with binr on 
particular occasions ; the senti- 
ments of such a man were often 
listened to by gentlemen of the 
strictest honcmr and integrity. — 
But 1 had |iot the intercourse with 
him others of my superiors often 



declaration ? Why, the motives 
were obvious, which I shall di- 
rectly shew — it was with a view of 
saving his life. It was the situa- 
tion of two men drowning; would 
not the one grasp the other to save 
his own liie ? That he was deluded 
and ^educed into a hope of saving 
his life, cannot betlisputed. 

Prince has publicly said, that I 
knew of this business, for that I 
was in all good things ; but I have 
leason to believe that Prince has 



had : 1 always had an opinion of been in more good things, and safe 



my own, which such ,a man as 
Dawson could not alter; and I 
nolemnly protest, I would neither 
have given him credit, nor taken 
his word on any event, for twenty 
guineas, much less have involved 
myself in a plot where my life was 
at svike, or left myself in bis hands, 
Af at his mercy. Besides, as I 
have often before observed, the 
yevy physicking act was defeating 
every speculation of mme, as I 
have before shewn. Now, a charge 
•fa capital ofience^ as being con- 



ones too, as it is generally known I 
bet upon events as they arise, nine 
out of ten. 1 would ask Prince, if 
he will have the eftVonteiy to deny 
that he said in public, after Daw- 
son's condemnation. Bland' was in 
the affair of physicking horses with 
Dawson; and, if the latter would 
say so, he would have a good chance 
of pardon, or that he had no doubt 
he would be pardoned. I will prove 
this assertion, from the mouth of 
Prince, by affidavits, if denied. 
Auother strong inducemeDt for 

him 



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hittiio ine!i>t)On my nauie was, that 
be kuevv 1 was the hrst to (kttsct the 
pOiaoniog business^ by my informa* 
tior) lo Prince, ot wikUt i expected 
Vfim aboMt to take place in 131 1. 

GentleiiK'R, in corrolK>ratii>ii of 
tht former fteutences^ 1 iiitteat your 
serious ttttf ution to tbe fo)k>wing : 
WiU Frtuce eVeu verbally, or ra« 
ther by aiiidaviC, deny a conversa- 
tiou with bis useful agent, ami a 
third person, at tht gate of the 
Greyhouiul, in the yard, or in the 
baek premises, 1 caniiot say which, 
I hat if Dawson woftld give up the 
names of any dccomplic^s, everjf 
€x^rii(m uxmld be used to, save him, 
and that no doo^bt he would be 
satjed if he wotdd do so} I unfor- 
la^ialely have it not ia my power 
to* ascertain- wlrat subse<{ueut trans- 
action took place ; hut I will prove 
such delusive hope was held out to 
the condemr.ed culprit, by the con- 
versation of Prince, and I will 
challenge and defy those be men- 
tioned it to, to contradict it. The 
CfMiversation will be proved if de- 
nied, by the aiiidavit of a fourth 
person who heard it. Had Prince 
Weu as saiiguine in tlie observance 
of the caution he received by my 
inierierence previous to the horses 
l>eiug poisoned, as he wai diligent 
ill looking for the oftendei^ after 
that act bad been committed, he 
woukI have saved Lord Foley's 
horses; and I did hope rather to 
have received the approbation of 
his Lordship for that act, than to 
have incurred his displeasure at 
any future time. It is a cimsola- 
lion to me, that I am addressing 
ge^utlenieo o^' strict honour, and of 
minds flowing with liberality. A 
iirhispered clnttge of guilt is more 
easliy believed, th^n proofs'ot in- 
nocence are accept e<.l ; hot aRer 
iv4iat I have here stated, I shall 
not presume further to occupy your 
Ijiue. To you^ Gentlemen^ to 



whom my conduct is more knoWfy 
thuii to others, 1 leave my ease. I 
seek not favour, but let u)y action* 
be taken all together | let niy priu« 
ciples be canvas^eu, and my cha* 
racter be scrutinised ) and then i 
ask of you as my juiymen, deli- 
verance from the foul stigma of 
being in the most distant way con* 
nected in that deed which I ablior, 
and which, if practised, would put 
an end to the amusements of the tujcf. 



CRUELTY TO A HORSE. 

Cyt^ the 11th ultimo, a gentle* 

man named Nash, exhibited ' 
at the Union Hall Police Office, 
in the Borough, a complaint against 
John Barrett, for cruelty towards 
his horse. Mr.Naslrstated, that as 
he was passing along the street, he 
saw the prisoner driving a smaU 
poney, which was attempting to 
draw a cart loaded with bricks :-*^ 
the animal was in an extremely low 
and stHrved condition, and after se« 
veral ineffectual attempts to move 
the load, which was by far too 
heavy for him, be was obliged to 
give it up. In order tb force him to 
renew his efforts, his inhuman dru 
ver took a sharp pointed nail from 
bis pocket, ami struck it several 
times into the poor animars side, 
but without its having tlie efl'ect of 
roiisinghim to any further exertion. 
U]»on seeing this, Mr. Nash imme^ 
diately charged a constable with 
him, and brought him before a 
Magistrnte. 

The Magistrate ex)>ressed bis ab- 
horrence at the defendant's con- 
duct, and his determination tojnake 
an example of him. The defendant, 
however, expressing (we fear not 
feeling/ great contrition for bis 
fault, and promising oerer to repeat 
it, the Magistrate, after a very ic-' 
Tei» admoaitum, discharged birav 

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GODOLPHIN ARABIAN. deeper, and lay farther ii lo bi| 

■ back, tban any horse*s ever ye| 

To the Editor of the Sporting Ma* seen : behind the shoulders, ther« 

gazine, was hut a very small space; before, 

SIB, the muscles of his loins rose ex* 

TT is of some consequence to cessively high, broad, and expand* 

breeders of race horses, to have ed^ which were in«crted into his 

an acquaintance with the shape of quarters, with greater strength and 

that famous Arabian, the GodoU power than in any horsey I believe* 

fhin. With due deference to Mr. ever yet seen of bis dimensions. 

Lawrence, 1 have more tban doubts If we noip comider the plainneu 4^ 

Against the engraving after Stubbs's hi^ head and ears, the position of 

picture bearing the least resem- his fore legs, and bit stinted^ 

blance to that horse. — ^Tbe strange growth, occasioned by the want of 

appearance of the head and neck food in the country where he was 

has struck many 5 and I shall en- bred, it is not to be wondered at 

deavour to shew that the GodoU that the excellence of this horsc'i 

phin, instead of a too small head, shape, which we see only in minia* 

and painted in a singular manner, tare, and therefore imperfectly* 

had a large head in proportion to was not so manifest and apparent 

his body. My authority is Osmer, to the perception of sonqe men as 

author of a Treatise on Horses, of others.*'— Dissertation, p. 50. 

and of a Dissertation on Horses. Again, at page 19. — " If it 

He was a sportsman, an excellent should be asked why the sons of 

Judge, and a writer on our blood the Godolphin Aralrian were sti* 

fiorses i of mwe sound sense than perior to most horses of their time, 

any that have undertaken that sub- 1 answer, because he had a great 

Ject. The principles on which the power and symmetry of parts (bead 

speed of a blood horse depends, excepted), and a propriety of 

are clearly laid down in the *' Dis- length greatly superior to all other 

sertation,*' and in part iii. chap. iii. horses of the same diameter." 

of the " Treatise." The first was At page ap, he writes, " I well 

republished in the fporling Jlfa;^a- remember this to be the case 

xinei but both ought to be re- (naniely, the fore kga standiiiff 

printed in a pamphkt, for the in* mnch uuder him) of the Godo^ 

struction of gentlemen who breed phin Aiaibian, when I saw him, 

for the turf. •—Osmer saw the Go*- who stood bent at toe knees, and 

dolphin Araibian, and though he with his fore legs titmbling under 

does not in direct terms say the htm." 

horse had a large head, yet I think Now a plain bead never, fai the 

every sportsman will admit ibait langiiaga of sportsmen, can be in- 

•uch may be inferred from the foU terpreted a too small head, and 

loving description : pointed to the auiazle.— On the 

'^ Seconding to these principles contrary, it is either a large coarsa 

of length and power, there never head in proportion to the body, or 

was a horse, (at least that I have a long $our head. I think there is 

seen) so well entitled to get racers a particular run of Mood that is 

at the Godolphin Arabian; for given to the long and 9onr head, 

whoever has seen this horse, must Is this feature in the line of the 

iwnember that his shoulders were Godolphin blood ? Besides, when 

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Osmer speaks of the stinted 
growth^ by which the excellency of 
the .Arabian's shape was not obvi- 
ous, I think be alludes to the body 
being small in proportion to the 
)iead. 

I have mentioned that what 
Osnier wiites on blood horses, 
should be republished. — It would 
add greatly to the value of the 
work, if correct measurements of 
the most celebrated race hordes 
and mares of the present day were 
added, with remarks on their shapes 
by way of notes. Let Sorcerer, 
Remembrancer, Hambleconian, 
Gob anna, Eleanor, Meteora, and 
Old Queen Mab, be among the 
number. To which might be con- 
trasted some of the lately imported 
Arabians. Such a republication! 
carefully executed, will meet with 
a rapid sale. M. 



COACH-OFFICE DEPREDA^ 
TIONS. 

I7EW of our readers, most likely, 
are unaware of the frec|Utnt 
depredations committed by petty 
thieves employed in stage-coach 
offices, through whose hands par-p 
eels of game pass, which the kind- 
ness of sportsmen may intend for 
the table of their friends resident 
if a the Metropolis. A case of this 
description lately came before the 
Court of Requests, at Guildhall, 
the circumstances of which may 
prove useful to many, by guarding 
them against similar impositions. 



f OURT OF RECIUESTS, SEPT. 2^. 



Lewin, Esq. v. 



The defendant in this case was 
the proprietor of a stage-coach, 
ti^nd the plaintiff a gentleman o( 



considerable pro|KTty, residing in 
the country. The sum sought to^ 
be recovered was 5s. 6d. the value 
put by the plaintift upon a brace of 
plump partridges, sent to town to 
a friend by the defendant's coacli. 
The case arose out of au existing 
grievance of serious magnitude to 
the public, namely, the birds ia 
question having been changed by 
the persons about the coacb office 
after their ariival in town. . The 
following circumstances led to a 
discovery of the transaction. A 
friend of Mr. Lewin's, to whom 
for some years past be has been in 
the habit of sending game during 
the season, wrote to him a fevr 
days since, requesting him not to 
send any more, unless he coidd 
send them freih and fresh, Mr. 
Lewin, conscious that be never 
sent any that were not so, imme- 
diately on receiving his frieml's let- 
ter, intimating that his friend's ci- 
vilities in future would readily be 
dis^pensed with, procured a brace 
of tine birds, and while yet warm 
tiikd Jluttering, and with the life's 
blood quivering round their hearts, 
sealed them with his own signet, 
in a private place under the wing, 
and directing them to bis friend, 
dispatched them to London by his 
usual conveyance, and, in the 
course of the day, took his journey 
himself by another coach, and was 
at his friend's house almost as soon 
as his feathered outriders. On his 
arrival, he told his friend he was 
come to partake of the supper he 
had sent him in the morning, and 
was, in reply, assured, that not 
only was he welcome to pmtake, 
but that the whole were fully at bit 
service, if be could prevail on the 
goddess who presidetl over the 
culinary utensils and kitchen de- 
partment, yclept Mrs. Cook^ to de- 
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ber o^actory nerves^ . by spUtmg 
ttietn. — Mr. Lewin expressed bis 
surprise tbat tbese unfortunate lit- 
tle victims of his murderous aim, 
which in the moriiiug were sport- 
ing in the regions of air^ should so 
sbon have exbibiterl such strong 
symjJtoiLS of mortality, and re- 
quested to see them. In compli- 
ance with his request they were in- 
troduced, and gave notice of their 
approach long before they reached 
his nose, and upon as close an exa- 
mination as circumstances would 
allow taking place, he was con- 
vinced, without looking under their 
wings, tbat they were not the 
dear little creatures with whom he 
parted in the morning | and tbat 
if be had ever bad the pleasure of 
bearing tbeir sweet notes, so agree-^ 
able to the ears of every sports- 
man, it must have been many days 
before, as they were in such a 
state that they would scarcely bold 
together. To check this abuse, 
if possible, be instantly determined 
<)h bringing the case before the 
Court, and to hear their decision 
on it. 

The defendant being called on 
fot his defence, did not attempt 
to dehy that the abuse of exchang'* 
Ing game did exist among the 

fortei-s aiid others about the great 
nns to a considerable extent 3 but 
said, be trusted be should not be 
held answerable for that to which 
it Was not possible for him personal- 
ly to attend. 

The Court, howevei*, were of 
a different opinion^ and informed 
him be was liable for all the acts 
of his agents ; and to mark tbeir 
opinion strongly, ordered him 
to pay the sum demanded by 
Mr. Lewin, together with costs, 
and that gentkman*s travelliDg ex- 
pences. 



MEW BRAMA CALLEfi « THS 
.STHIOP." 

A New grand Romantic Drama^ 
^^ entitled, TheJEthwp; or. The 
Child of the Desert, was produced 
at Covent-Garden Theatre, <m 
Tuesday^ the 6th instant. Itia 
written by Mr. ])imond ; the over- 
ture and music composed by Mr. 
H. R. Bishop. The following ar« 
the principal characters:—^ 

The ^hiop Mr. C. Kemblcu 

Gia&r (the Visier of ^ 

Haroun Alras- >Mr. Egeiton* 

dhid) 3 

^^f^ ^** '^ ; Mt. Simmons. 

Bcu Mousaf (the \%g, i -^^ 
Cadi) jMf.l-itloii. 

Abdallah Mr. Murray. * 

Almanzor Mr. Young.* 

Alexis . . . . • Mr. Fawoett. 

^' ttS.!'!'.' . .^"^:1 Mrs. H. Johnstww 

Zoa Mrs. C. Kemble* 

Grimnigra Mrs. Davenport. . 

The serious part of the drama 
arises from the attempt of Alman* 
zor to place on the throne of the 
Caliph of Bagdad, Haroun Alras « . 
chid, his nephew, Orastnyn, whose 
father, Ali, had been murdered and 
deposed by the father of the reigo- 
ning Caliph. On the night of 
Ali*s destruction, his brother, Al- 
manzor, conveyed the infant Oras- - 
myn to the desert, where, for fif- 
teen years, he watcbe<l over him | 
and, during tbat time> used every 
means to inspire the survivors of 
the tribe of Ali with the desire o£ 
revenging his fate. The piec6 
commences when the plot is ripe 
for execution, and Altnanzor \% 
leading his nephew lo the tomb of 
his race, within whose caverns the 
conspirators meet. Here they eia* 
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them adoiission to the tomb^ and is banished by the loves of Alexi* 
promises to assist them in the com- and Zoa, or the intrigues of Mus^ 
pletion of their scheme, on coudi- tapha and Ben Mous>af. The jn« 
tion of being rev^arded with the sipiJity of those scenes, abounding 
handofSifania,Haroun Alraschid*8 in antiquated jests, joined to the 
iidtana, and sister to Orasmyn. romantic nature ot the others. 
The conspirators agree to his de^ which soar far beyond the boun-« 
maiid, and he conveys Orasmyn daries to which even an entertain- 
and his uncle into the Caliph's ment of this kind should be re- 
garden. They ultimately! appa^ stricted, throws an air of ridicule 
rently by means of an ivory wand, over the whole drama — which is, 
which The ^thiop describes as in every respect, inferior to Mr. 
having the power of rendering the Dimonas other scenic produc« 
possessor invisible, enter the Ca-* tions. There are a few good stage 
uph*8 chamber, who, with his situations«—bnt,in several instances, 
pages, they are taught to l)eiieve» the uplifted dagger and elegant at' 
are plunged in a magic sleep, and titude were freely censured by the 
•re on the point of assassinating audience, because the occasions on 
bim, when Sifania stands forth to which they were introduced ap- 
avert the blow; the Caliph sud- peared forced and unnatural.-^- 
denly arises, and the galleries sur* Thus, when Almanzor threatens to 
rounding the chamber appear filled assassinate his innocent nephew 
with armed men.— ^In despair, Al- and his virtuous niece — or where 
nanzor calls on The Ethiopian, the Caliph presents his dagger to 
but h thunderstruck when he learns his implacable enemy, and bids him 
that Haronn Alraschid and The strike — the scene created disgust, 
.Ethiopian are the same person j not pity or admiration 5 passiona 
the Caliph having discovered the which can never be commanded by 
conspiracy, gained access to the incidents that are strained or over* 
haunts of his enemies in that fic< charged. The music is very beau-* 
titious character, defeated their tiful. The overture, which is corn- 
projects, and proved the affection posed in a bold military style, is a 
of Sifania, who, he feared, was scientific and masterly production, 
lavouiable to a design, which The scenery is of the most brilliant 
would avenge the death of her fa- description — the machinery very 
ther, and place her brother on the ingenious — and the dresses supecb. 
throne. Those, therefore, who are fofuj of 
Xtest the numerous horror-fraught shew' and s)>ectacle will find much 
incidents which occur in the course to amuse them — but the lover of 
^ the piece should, if too rapidly mental entertainment will retire 
introduced, plunge the audience from the representation of The 
into gloom and melancholy, the ^thiop, chagrined and disap« 
author has been pleased to chequer pointed. 

the scenes. One moment a set of The performers exerted them* 

conspirators, with a magician at telves to the utmost — ^IVIr. C. Kern- 

their head, and the lK)wels of the ble, as The iSthiop, was dignified 

earth their council-chamber, af- and impressive. — Almanzor, whose 

fright us with the horrid subject ruling passion is the desire of 

of their deliberations; but iihme- avenginghisbrotber*sdeath, found, 

diately after, every terrific feftliug in Mr. Young, it most energetic 

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t^presentative. Miss Booth sus- 
tained the character of OrRSiiiyo 
with exquisite feeJiug — particular- 
ly her scenes with Sifania^ which 
were rendered extremely interest- 
ing by the excellent acting of Mrs. 
H. Johnston. Messrs. Liston, 
Simmons, and Fawcett^ Mrs. C. 
Keuible, and Mrs. Davenport, used 
their best eflbrts in the comic 
scenes, hut they were too trit« and 
^ontemptihle to please, although 
aided by so much genuine talent. 

Much disapprobation was mani- 
fested from the beginn'uig of th« 
second act, which increased as the 
piece proceeded, and, long before 
the curtain dropped, the expression 
of applause and disapprobation 
filled the house with uproar. — ^The 
piece has, ho never, been several 
limes repeated — but will ere long, 
be consigned to the shelf of obli- 
vion. 



:ax: 



S=i: 



HARDSHIPS ARISINGFROMTHE 
GAME LAWS. 



To the Editor of the Sporting Ma- 
gaxme, 

SIKt 

pERHAPS the Mlowiug obser- 
vations on a grievance, now too 
tonch and very severely felt in many 
districts, way not be coesidered 
unsuitable to yoiu* pubJUcation.— » 
Yonr's, J. 

Biifikinghamskire^ Sept* 
28, 181a. 



The hardships to which oar cul- 
tivators are exposed, from the ope- 
ration of the Game Laws, have 
become so general and intolerable, 
that it is no longer possible to con- 
ceal the evil. — Parliament will fitul 
it absolutely necessary to take the 
subject into their consideration 
early the next Session, and we 



trust to their wisdom for providing 
a remedy which may at once afford 
to agriculture that encouragement 
which it ought to have, and put 
an end to these excesses that begin 
to break out in the country against 
the persons who are deputed to 
carry tltese obnoxious laws into 
execution. The extent of the in- 
juries sustained by the farmers 
from game, may be estimated by 
the following facts, which have 
been furnished us from the most 
indisputable authority: 

A farm, called Tuncroft*s, in the 
parish of Great Marlow, was till 
lately occupied by Miss Batling; 
it was her own freehold estate, but 
unfortunately for her situated close 
to the preserve of a most tenacious 
sportsman. In consequence of this 
bad neighbourhood, her wheat- 
crops in the winter and spring were 
generally eaten down, quite bare, 
with hares and rabbits; many 
times, as is notorious to the whole 
country, was she obliged, towards 
tiie end of spring, to plough the 
wheat she had sown in the autumn, 
and crop the land over again with 
some other grain. She readily in- 
vited qualified persons to sport oa 
her land, but never could, by such 
means, clear herself of hares and 
rabbits, which, when started, took 
shelter in the preserve ; and, if the 
dogs followed them, they were 
either shot by the keepers or caught 
in the dog-spears. The pheasant 
is a very destructive bird when the 
corn is nearly ripe; Miss Batling*s 
ste^-ard, in order to get quit of this 
luaisance, thought fit to sow some 
poisoned corn, and for this his 
mistress was subjected to a prose* 
cution, although the com was 
scattered on her own ground.— 
Tired out with this oppression, and 
having lost more than a thousand 
pounds by her farm. Miss Batlittg^ 

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WM at last compelled to sell her 
estate^ which hafl descenUed to her 
from her aoce^itors^ and to which 
she was attached, as it was the 
place of her nativity, and to go and 
live io another county. 

Since the Game Laws have been 
extended to rabbits^ they have 
proved the ruin of wany a farmer > 
hut there is also another class of 
men who have lieen grievously op- 
pressed by them> and who are still 
kss able to bear it than the far- 
mers, and that is the superior order 
of peasantry in that pait of Buck- 
inghamshire called the Cbilterns, 
There is much waste aiul woo<l 
land; many cottages are there 
found with a small blip of land l>e- 
longing to them, perhaps original- 
ly taken from the wa;$te. These 
cottages were inhabited hy men 
who work for the farmers ; com- 
monly their masters give them a 
day's work with a team, which is 
sufficient to plough their little 
field ; the rest they do themselves. 
"When these men find their little 
crop of corn entirely destroyed and 
laid waste by rabbits, and even 
tlieir colwerts in their gardens ate 
down to the very stumps, they have 
seldom fortitude sufficient to bear 
the loss. Generally they have also 
to endure the aggravation of seeing 
a gamekee^ier in their neighbour- 
hood, who watches all their mo- 
tions, in order to punish thein if 
they should be found setting a 
snare, or even be detected with 
such a thing in their possession ; 
nor is it a small mortification for 
these poor fellows to see this keeper 
carry to market the very rabbits 
that have devoured the food with 
which they hoped to maintain 
their families over the winter; per- 
haps likewise bread will be very 
dear, and they will find themselves 
incapable of buying a substitute 



for that food which they baT<f 
lost by the devastations of tbes^ 
destructive animals. These cir- 
cumstances naturally create great 
heart-burnings and discontent; 
and, however we may deplore it, 
we cannot be much surprised that 
some no pardon able excesses should 
be the consequence. 

On Tues^lay night, a hay-stack 
belonging to one Tyler, in the 
parish of Great Mariow, wiio is a 
game-keeper and considerable ven- 
der of rabbits, was discovered by a 
neighbour to be inflames. — It was 
fortunate that this discovery was 
made just in time to prevent the 
fire communicating to the dwelling- 
house where Tyler and his family 
were in be<l and asleep.— About 
fourteen months ago, some valu- 
able pointers that were in Tyler*s 
care were poisoned. A reward of 
fifty guineas was offered, but it did 
not produce a discovery of the of-* 
fender, or prevent a repetition of 
the ofience. Tyler's horse was also 
stolen, and is supposed to have beeii 
destroyed > and last spring, a small 
house, or hut, built in the woods, 
for the keepers to take shelter in 
had weather, and for keeping their 
dog-spear and rabbit-traps, was set 
fire to, and burnt to the ground. 

One is at a loss, which most td 
condemn, the oppression of the 
Game-Laws, which have certainly 
brought many an industrious and 
useful member of society to ruin, 
or these acts of atrocity, by whick 
some desperate men seem inclined 
to op)K>se them. Surely English - 
men forget that they live under a 
Constitution, which says, that 
there shall be no wrong without a 
remedy, and that the people them- 
selves depute Representatives to 
Parliament for the express purpose 
of hearing and redressing aU popu- 
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tnade to Parliament: it is their 
<lut J to find a remedy tor the evil 3 
l>ut let not the sufi'erers, however 
great may be their hardships, take 
redress at their own hands. Such 
excesses are a disgrace to the coun- 
try, and every good man mnst de- 
sire to see them repressed by th« 
4itmost severity of the law. 



OPENING 

OP 

NEW DRURY-LANE THEATRE. 

nPHIS Theatre opened on Satnr- 
* day, the 10th instant, with 
Hamlet, to an immense audience. 
The public expectation had been 
so much excited, that the doors 
were crow<ied at an early hour, and 
the whole neighbourhood kept in a 
state of tumult until the time of 
admission came. The multitude 
then rushed forwards, and the dif- 
ficulty of entrance became exces- 
sive. When at length the crowd 
bad slowly laboured their way into 
the hall, they found other difficul- 
ties, and the passages to the doors 
for receiving money, were scenes 
of nearly as much struggle and 
danger as the street. This hall 
was a large unomamented oblong 
entrance, lighted by a handsome 
circular lamp, with a range of nar- 
row iron railing enclosing the pay 
doors. The next progress was 
into a circular apartment, sur- 
rounded by columns, and covered 
by the dome ; a figure of Shake- 
spear standing oa a large stove op- 
posite to the entrance, and the 
openings on the right and left lead- 
ing to the grand staircases. On 
the landing-place of each, a line of 
railing, bronzed and gilt, was 
<irawD across for the ticket-receiv- 
f^rSj a^ those once )iasied> the 



audience were let loose among iImk 
galleries of this striking e<lifice. 
The general avenue to the upper 
part, in the interior, was a showy 
circular passage, running round 
the Shakspeure-hall, at about m 
third of its height, lighted witk 
antique lamps of bronze, and 
branching oft* to the saloon and 
the boxes. The saloon, on whose 
construction the Architect pro- 
bably occupied much of his means, 
was handsome, so far as size might 
assist its efi'ect. Large ottoroam 
were placed at intervals in two 
lines down the middle, and the re- 
cesses in the sides lined with sofas. 
—The colour of the furniture 
throughout was scarlet. Two cof- 
fee-rooms close the extremities. 
Chandeliers and lamps, on antique 
models, were interspersed in great 
profusion. On the box doors be- 
ing opened, the Theatre blazed 
upon the eye 5 and it was scarcely 
possible for any eye to look upon 
it without being for the moment 
dazzled and delighted by its pro- 
digal and luxuriant beauty. The 
back of the boxes sweeps, as it ap- 
peared to us, a segment of about 
two thirds of a circle ; but the 
front deviates with uncommon ele- 
gance, from a figure almost too 
precise and too unmanageable for 
the pur|)Oses of a Theatre, and as- 
sumes the form of an irregtdar 
conch iod,- or, to use a more fami- 
liar illustration, a horse-shoe, con- 
siderably flattened in the miildle. 
This form gives great advantages 
in seeing and hearing, from bring- 
ing forward the audience more 
equally to the front. We under- 
stand that the centre boxes are 
seventeen feet nearer the stage than 
in the Covent-Garden Theatre, 
and sixteen feet nearer than in the 
former bouse. The front of the 
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that of tbe first circle^ retiring by rowness of tbe stage, it migbC Imve 

a slight beiul, is covercd with gild- been feared that tbe figures of tbe 

ing and colours; the fronts of tbe performers would appear dispro- 

upper rows are gorgeously deco- portlonately large, at least to all 

vated witb greeu and gold. Tbe that UMyority ot tbe audience wot 

back of tbe boxes is a strong redj 4)erfectly on tbeir iey^l : but by 

the cttsbions a deep crimson. Thge bringiog forward tbose pilbvi^ .unH 

pit contains only seventeen rows pf atill more by, if we mtiy-so expreaa 

seats, but it seems capacious and ourselves, extending tbeir pedeslul 

well arranged : tbe entrances ai:e on both sides of tbe proscenium, 

at tbe b)ick. Tlie orchestra occh- ^n immefliate contrast i» formed, 

pies but a part of it, and tbe seats wbkb reduces tbe stature of the 

at either end reacb clown tbe stage, performer: to tbe due proportion. 

Tbe ai|iect of the stage is admirii- From this, whteb struck us as a 

ble: the .place of » the stage-doofs very happy e?ipedicnt, the stage 

is> fiUed up l^y two immense groupes appeared to have aN the advantage,. 

of gryphons or spbynxes in bronze, .witbctet tbfe- tncouvenieuCe, of tluit 

suppofting each a brazen tripod of Aize, which has given ri^ to so 

lights. The fiame rises from a .much compbunt. io.: the .CoKeoW 

circk of itbirt^y-six small tubes garden Theatre. On a coyipan* 

above tbe edge of tbe urn ; and son wilb this latter Tbeutre, de* 

from its brilliancy, wavering deli- .fects occur to us in both -, but .the 

cacy, and . slight connection with jmitual character dlSem so widely, 

it» support, excited universal ad- that a, perfect oan^ast is impossi- 

piratiou.. Qv^r these, > cm) a line bie. The ooi produces, its effect 

witb the first and secofld circles, by rigid regularity ; tbe Qthew. by 

a«'c the Mauagers* boxes, small and vari»us elegauce. In tbeone^ de- 

tingularly tasteful; above these ia coraliou obtrudeaitelf i«UictBaiiliy, 

• magnificent cornice, and the and is sulxmisaive to tke stemir spi- 

whole is surmounted by tbe statue rit of the Temple; in th4. other, 

r^f anijuse. This is . all finely pic- tbe very wwntouiwas of u tuxAuiant 

taresque. . From tlie overpowering taste 6}Hirt» in all ks tiancies.. an4 

biigbtne6s>of tbe stage andnJne tri^ impressea all its twidies- witb the 

pods, the eye rises to, the gracef 111 spirit of an. OiientAl '^ palace.— * 

uitnament of those recesses, tha^t {sibakesueure woakl .have eliosen 

look, witb tlieir gold aiKl imageit Covent^gaaden fw tbe. stern pus* 

work, like pavilions in an .Sastern sions of bis OtheUa, foe tbe despe* 

garden, and from them. gradually rate and sublime cruelty of bia 

fixes an the pale and marble form Lady MaciMh-y Inut 4ot tb& light 

«f a Muse, surrouuded witb tbe (*legance, and fairy beauty, xmsndt 

severer lines of tJie arcbiteclure, fantastic splendour of tbe Tempesl^ 

slightly .shaded from tbe burning or tbc.iVftr/«Mm8er^^^ftl'ji Xkfom^ 

biightuessofliie stage, an<l stand- be would have tivned uoRvillingly 

itig in all the gvace of cluiste, lover from Drury*lane. • Tbcy .are betis 

ly, Greek sin^plicify. Two large aMe works, and dp honour to tbe 

green eolmnnSj witb gilded capitals^ lil)erality and tbe ^ill by wbicb 

limit tbe stage on either side ;. aud they have been raised within a» 

the Architect seems to have availed short a period f but a decision o» 

himself of them in a very able mant- tbeir jiespectlve meritsuM^t depend 

uer* From, the ooinjt^rative 4iar« ei^th,e pecmliaf haljita ^ tbe de<v 

cid^r« 



tHlB SPORTiN& UAGAXlMi if 

tider. An ancient Greek would tber privateer^ wbicb had tbe goort 

scarcely have refused to Covent- fortune to capture two West-India 

garden the praise of bis grave and ships richly laden, and to bring 

silent admiration. We are con- them safely into L*Orient,. where 

vinccdy that a modern Frenchman we disposed oiF their cargoes^ and 

could not restrain bis clamorous my share was so considerable, that 

delight at tbe coup-d'oeil of its glit^ I determined to quit the sea and 

tering rival. return to my friends; When^ in 

Shortly after half-past six the pursuance of this resolution, I ar« 

curtain rose for tbe first time, and rived at home, I found my father 

the Corps Dmrnatique appeared and elder .brother had died during 

drawn up in battle array. God my absencei and I took possession 

save the King was struck up by tbe of tbe little estate which 1 thus 

orchestra, and sung by the per- became heir to^ and began to think 

formers. The first strain seemed myself a person of some conse- 

to fill the audience with ecstacy> quence. In commencing country 

and a burst of applause, which re- genHeroan, I set myself down to 

sembled the thundering roar of the reckon all the advantages of my 

ocean, rendered it impossible to situation. An extensive tract of 

hear any sound from the stage or waste land lay on one side of my 

from tbe oicbestra. The tumult little domain, on tbe other a forest 

soon subsided, and the audience -^my fields abounded with game-* 

attended to tbe concluding verses a river ran through them, on which 

with all the usual demonstrations I depended for a supply of fish^ 

of joyful respect. and I determined to make a little 

. The perji'ormers were retiring warren, and to build a dove-cote, 

when a loud encore arrested their I bad undergone hardshi])s enough 

steps. They returned, but did not to give me a perfect relish for tbe 

exactly comply with the mandate good things now within my reacfa^ 

of the audience ; as, instead of and I resolved to enjoy them. But 

^' God save the King,*' they sung I was soon disturbed in this agree^. 

the national air of *' Rule Bri- able reverie. — ^I took tbe liberty of 

tfmnia" To say this was honour- firing one morning at a covey of 

^d with approbation is saying too partridge^ that were feeding oa 

little) it was ref:eived withenthu- my corn, and having the same day 

siasm and with rapture. caught a brace of trout, I was sit- 

Air. Elliston now came forward ting down to regale myself on 

to speak tbe address — (see our Poe- Uiese dainties, when I received the 

iicai Department,) — After which following notice from tbe aeigb- 

the Tragedy of Hamlet was per- bouring Seigneur, with whom I 

formed, and tbe farce of tbe DevU was not at all aware I had any thing 

io Pay concluded the amusements to do. 

of the night. *' The high and powerful Seig'^ 

• ' ■ ' ' '■ ' ■■ ' ■ =»=»« neur, Monseigneur Raoul: Fbil- 

tH£; BRETON. lippe Joseph Alexander Cassar 

A Fragmtiu* Erispoe Baron de K^ermanfroe, 

•— — signifies to Louis Jean de Mer-^ 

7 " - ' . ' ' ■ T Soon after, not dis- ville, that Be, the said S&gneuVi 

' couraged by what had in quality of Lord Paramount, is 

befallen f ne, entered on board au^- to all intents and purposes invested 

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with the 8ok riglit alid property 
of the river fnniiiiig tbroogb bis 
fi^^ together with all tbe Ush 
therein 5 the rueliea, rced», and 
wiUovs t)|ftt growo in or near tbe 
said river; ali tpeee and plants that 
the said river water, and alt tbe 
iskamU and aits within k. Of all 
and eveiy one of which the high 
and mighty Lord Raonl FbiHrppe 
Joseph Alexander Ciesar JBrispoe 
Baron de Kermanfroe, is absolute 
and only proprietor . — Also, of aH 
tbe birds of whatsoever nature or 
species that have, shall, or may, at 
any time fly on, or across, or upon 
tbejiefor Mt^eKi^. And all the 
beasts of cbase, of whatever de* 
scriptioii, that have, shall, orf may 
be fomid upon it.*' In short, it 
concluded with informing nte, the 
said Louts Jean Merville^ that if at 
any time I dared to fish in the river 
or to shoot a bird u|ion tbe said 
yfef, (of which it seems my little 
farm was unbickily made a part), 
Ishottftd be delivered into the hands 
of justice* To be sure T could not 
help enquiring within myself,- bow 
it happened that 1 bad no right 
to the game that fed in my fields, 
nor tbe fish that swam in the river, 
and how it was that Heaven had 
been at work only for tbe great 
Seigneur's! What! is there dO* 
t-bing, said I, but insects and rep- 
tiles, over which man, not bom 
noble, may exercise dominion? — 
From tbe wren to tbe eagle, from 
tbe rabbit to tbe wild boar, from 
the gndgeon to tbe pike, — all, all 
it seems are the property of tbe 
gfeat. 'Twas hard to imagine 
wbere llw power originated, that 
thus deprived all other men of 
their rights, to give to those nobles 
tbe empire of tbe elements, and the 
donioion over animated natare ! — 



However, I reflected, bnt did mi 
resist ; and since I could no tenget 
bring myself home a dinner wftk 
my gnn, I thought to console my- 
self, as wen as 1 conld, with ^e 
produce of nry farm-yard, and I 
constructed a ^mall enc4os<;d pigeon- 
bouse, from which, without any 
oflence to my noble neighbour, I 
boped to derive some strpply for 
my tabfe.—- But, alas ! tbe coomrt- 
able and retired state of my pigeons 
atti acted tbe aristocratic envy of' 
those o( the same species, who in- 
habited tbe spacious manorial dove- 
cote of Monsetgnenr, *and they 
were so very numerous and unrea« 
sonable, as to cover in large flc^cks, 
noc only my fields of corn, where 
they committed numerous depre- 
dations, but to surround my farm- 
yard, and mottO]iolize the food 
with which I stipplied my own lit- 
tle collection in their enclosures, 
as if they were instructively assured 
of the protection they enjoyed, as 
belonging to tbe Seigneur Raont 
Pbillippe Joseph Alexander Csesar 
Erispoe de Kermanfroe. My me- 
naces, and the shouts of my ser- 
vants, were totally disr^arded; 
tiH, at length, 1 yielded too hastily 
to my indignation, and threw a 
stone at a ^gbt of them, with so 
much effect, that I broke the leg 
of one of these pigeons, tbe con-' 
sequence of which was, that in 
half an hour, four of the gardes de 
chasse* of Monseigneur appeared, 
and summoned me to declare if I 
was not aware, that tbe wounded 
bird, which tbey produced in evi- 
dence against me, was tbe property 
of tbe said Seigneur, and without 
giving me time either to acknow- 
ledge my crime, cyr apologize for 
it, they shot, by way of retaliation, 
tbe tame pigeons on my enclosures. 



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(Ui4 carried me awaj to tlie cha^ 
ieau of the bigh add puissant 
Seigneur Raoul Phillippe Joseph 
Alexander Caesar Erispoe Baron 
de Kennanfroe^ to answer for the 
assault I bad thus committed on 
the person of one of his pigeons. 
There I was interrogated by the 
Fiscal^ who was making out ti 
procei verbcU; and reproved me 
screrely for not knowing, or at- 
tending to tlie fact so universaHy 
acknowle(%efl by the laws of Br it*- 
tany^ that pigeons and rabbits 
were creatures peculiarly dedicated 
to the service of th^ nobles ; and 
that for a vassal^ as I was^ to in- 
jure one of them^ was an unpar- 
fiopable oflRence against the rights 
of my lord, who might inHict any 
punish ment be pleascnJ for my trans- 
gression. — ^That inileed, the hws 
of Beanvoissis pronounced that 
ancb an offence was to be punished 
\vith death> bat that the milder 
]ftws of Brittany condemned the 
oflender only to corporal punish- 
ment at tbe mefcy of the lord.— « 
Ib short, I got o(F this time by 

e tying a heavy fine to Monseignenr 
aonl Phillippe Joseph Alexander 
Ctesar Erispoe Baron de Kerman- 
froe, who was extremely neces- 
sitous in tbe midst of his greatness. 
Soon afterwards, Monseignenr 
discovered that there wets a certain 
spot upon my estate, where a pond 
migbt be made, for which he foimd 
that he had great occasion ; and 
be very modestly signified to nie, 
that he should eatise this piece of 
gronnd to be laid under water, and 
that he would either give me a 
piece of ground of tbe same value, 
or pay me for it According to the 
valuation of two persons whom be 
would appoint ; but, that in case 
I refused thl» just and liberal offer, 
)m shotild, as Lord Paramount, and 
i4 Ms ^^wn right and authority. 



make his pond by flooding my 
ground according to hfw. 

I felt this proposition inconsis- 
tent with every prhiclple of justice. 
In this spot was an oM oak planted 
by tbe first de MerviMe, Mrlio bad 
bought tbe estate.— It was under 
its shade that the happiest h^wn 
of my life had passed, while 1 was 
yet a child, and it had been held 
in veneration by all ray family.— I 
determined then to defend this fa- 
vourite spot J and I hastened to a 
neigbt)0uring magistrate, learned 
in the law.— ^He considered ^my 
case, and then informed me, that^ 
in this instance the laws of Bfi- 
tany were silent j and that, there* 
fore, their deficiency must be sup- 
plied by the customs and laws of 
the neighbouring provinces; The 
laws of Maine and Anjon, said he^ 
decide, that the Seignewr of the 
^/Eef may take the grounds to make 
ponds, or any thing eke, only giv- 
ing him another piece of grotlml, 
or paying what ta equivalent lA 
money.—- As precedent therefore 
decides that the sairie thing may 
be done in Brittany, I advise yon, 
Louis Jean dc Mervilk, to suboftt 
to the laws, and, on receiving pay- 
ment, to give «p your land to 
Monseignenr Raou! rhiHippe Jo- 
seph Alexander Gaesar Erispoe 
Baron de Kermanfroe. 

It was in vain I represe^cd-that 
I had a particuhir taste, or a fond 
attachment to this* spot. My man 
of law fiokl me that a vassal hid 
no right to any taste or attach- 
ment contrary to the sentiments 
of his loi-d. Ami, alas ! in a few 
hours I heard the axe laid to ndy 
beloved oak — my fiAe melKlow wat 
covered with water, and becaihe 
the receptacle for the carp, tench^ 
and eeb, of Monseigneur-^-^nd 
remonstrances and complaints were 
ip vain !— These were only a part 

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pf tbe grievances 1 endured from 
xny unfortunate neigbbuurbood to 
this powerful Baron^ to whom^ in 
his miserable and balf furnisbed 
cha^aUg I was regularly summoned 
to do homage *' upon faith and 
path" — ^till my oppressions becom- 
ing more vexatious and insupport- 
able^ I took the desperate resolu- 
tion of selling my estate^ and 
throwing myself again upon t))e 
world. 



DUELLING. 



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|N Wednesday and Thursday, 
the 14th and 15th October^ an 
inquest was taken by Roger CaUa- 
irajTy Esq. Coroner of the Forts- 
mouth Borough^ on the body of 
Xiieu tenant John Bagnell, of the 
Royal Mariqe Corps, who was 
mortally wounded in $i duel by 
Lieutenant William Stuurt, of the 
same corps, op ^South Sea Com- 
mon, on the morning qf Thursday^ 
the 8th instant, of which wound 
he languished until the Saturday 
evening, when he died. 

Thomas and Jane Haines de- 
posed, that the deceased was 
brought to their cottage, partly 
assisted by the said Thomas Haines, 
and that a pistol ball was extracted 
from him by Mr. Madden, surgeon, 
who was sent for to afford him pro:* 
fessional aid. The ball entered the 
light side, near the arm-pit, and 
was taken put qi the jeft shoulder. 
Lieutenant B. was subsequently 
conveyed to his lodgings in Flam- 
brouk-row in a post-chaise. Whilst 
Xiieutenant Bagnell was proceeding 
to the cottage, he said to the gen- 
tleman who assisted him (Lieut. 
John O'Hanlon), " John, he ne- 
ver came hack to say he was sorry 
for it.** The gentleman answered, 
*' No.** When lying on the bed. 



he said, '^ I am sorry for yon. 
Jack i* and they both shed tears. 
IJe also said, " I discharged my 
pistol, didn't I .^* to which Lieute^ 
qant Q'(Ianlqp replied, <* Yes, you 
did.** 

A. Aubellj ^b^ nursed Lieut, 
^agnell, deposed that she had much 
conversation with him, aqd that 
he said he had been wounded in a 
4uel with Mr. Stuart, and that 
he would have made it up on the 
ground, bvi^ ^x. Stiiart was not 
agreeable. 

Lieutenant Alexs^nder Day, of 
the Royal Marine Corps, deposeo, 
that having received a inesftagt; 
from Lieutenant W. Stuart, who 
wished to see. hin^, he waited upon 
him. He met him at the door of 
his lodging-house, in Stoncrstreet, 
and wa^ iustantly saluted with the 
following words, or to that eftecc— r 
*' Day, I am the most iniserable 
wretch !** After Lieutenant Day 
had expressed his sorrow on the 
occasion. Lieu tendut Stuart en- 
tered into particulars of a dispute 
which had recently taken pla^e 
between him and the deceased. 
He statetl, that as he was about 
to leave Mr. Bagnell, at his lodg- 
ings, he (Stuart) observed that he 
should make a call on some one, 
fa female whom they hath visUed 
is here alluded to), and Mr. Bag-r 
nell immediately answered, '' You 
will not be received.*' That Mr. 
S. then said, ^* How do you know 
I shall not be received?'* — Upon 
which Mr.B. replied, that he would 
not allow himself to )>e impertinent- 
ly catechised. Mr. S. rejoined, that 
he would not allow himself to be 
bullied : Bagnell then exclaimed, 
** What ! call me bully in my own 
house!— walk out of it.** That 
Mr. S. thereupon went towards the 
door, and Mr. B. followed him^ 
with bis hand touching, or nearly 
touching bi9. great coat ^ this in- 

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4uced Stuart to say, " Don*t state of his poor friend Bagnell, «i 

touch me, Bagnell^ for that never be called him. 

fan be made up } aud when be bad Lieutenant Bagnell was a fine 

got into the street, Stuart toki young man, in the 30th year of 

l^agnell he should bear from him— bis age. He married a daughter 

that Bagneli, moving his band to of the Rev. Dr. Asbe, of Cbippoi- 

and fro, said, " Go along, go bam, where she now Jives, and by 

along,*'— -that Stuart, in the course whom be bad two children, who 

of his conversation with Lieute- died. The parties were the most 

nant Day, said, be was very glad intimate friends previously to tbe 

to bear Bagnell's wound was not unfortunate dispute that tefmiqaCed 

jnortal, and that be was likely to so lamentably, 

recover, iitoart also said, that It is exceedingly to be regrettadl. 

Bagneirs first ball had passed very that there is such a vindictive tri- 

near him. hunal, as that which tlie modem 

Lieutenant PhilipKinnerJessop, Law ofH<m<mr, as it is called, Imt 

of the Royal Marine Corps, de- raised — ^that a man's best friend, 

posed; that on returning to bis for a hasty word spoken, must not 

lodgings on the Friday afterncon, be forgiven ; but U})on all occa* 

be found them occupied by Lieu- sions, let the accusation between 

tenant W. Stuart, who appeared the parties be what it may, an ap^ 

Tery much agitated at the time, peal must be nw^^ to a destmctive 

and said, ff Jessop, am I not a weapon, which, at the most, «aii 

•wretched fellow } 1 never shall only prove personal courage. Th^ 

enjoy a moment's peace of mind evidence however of the parties; 

as long as I live.'* That, after on this event, after the deed, is the 

Lieutenant Stuart had told bim the best commentary that can he made 

cause of the quarrel (nearly as de- on this shocking and absurd prac- 

scribed upon the above deposition) tice. 
be said, Bagnell must blame him* 

self for what had happened, in be- ■■ ■ ^ • ''**^ 

ing obstinate, and refusing to CERTAIN COMMON ERRORS 

make au apology: that Stuart, in the 

however, shewed great distress of TREATMENT of the HORSE, 

inind, and often expressed his aor- ..^^ 

row at what bad taken place: be Dete^fabulanarratur. 

aaid it ^ould.be a lesson to bim as 

long as he lived | and that, in fu- To theEdHor of the Sporting Mor 

ture, whatever afiront he might gaxine. 

receive, or even if he was struck, sir, 

be would not be induced to fight TN your late Memoir of one of the 

a duel again; but would rather most feeling and humane of men, 

yerify the text in Scripture—- Sir Charles Bunbury, we observe 

** That if be received a blow on that the good-natured Baronet, 

one cheek, be would suffer the anxious to enjoy his favourite di- 

other to be struck also ;** this de- version as pure as possible, and at 

|K>iient was part of two days in little alloyed with animal suffering, 

the house with Lieutenant S. and the true criterion of pleasure, ab*- 

)ie constantly evinced bis great solutely inhibits the use of severity 

(iiitreii of pind and sorrow for the of every species to bitt horses — 

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tbey are oetther whipped, spurred, ber brow,, and the teart vcWo^ 

nor beaten, whether in breaking, dowh her generous and high-bred 

training, or the race, but subdued face, A sniggering and fat-witted 

and managed entirely by the force fool, casting a stopid glance, en 

of soothing ami patience, and paeioni, remarked— '^ Eb, eb, I 

urged forward by the cheering and wander the little tfaing*s guts doo*t 

heartening stimulus of encourage- come out !*'*-Tbe £Uy lost her 

sient. And by this mild and con- race by half a neck, and it niglit 

siderate metliOil, Sir Charles Bun- have been mathematicaPy and 

bury's horses are as obedient, well- practically demonstrated, that she 

trained, eager, and successful, as also lost several strides by the bar- 

those of his competitors im the barous and euerfati&g usage she 

turf which undergo the severest received. The debilitating seven- 

lacerations and tortures of the ties also, of training race horses, 

whip and spur. It is a consoling have, within the last twenty years, 

ireflectipn, that snch useless seve-r given way to a mwK rational and 

rities are at this improving period pro6table system. Horses arc not 

far less frequent than formerly f now so often raltleil oft' their lega, 

and that we, who are attached to by excessive exercise,, nor their 

the noble and rational enjoyment speed abridged, or their sinews 

ni horse**raeing, are not so often broken down, by twenty stone ci 

disgu8te<l and appaUed at the bar- clothes, and a five-miW sweat I 

borous spectacle of sides blood- Noblemen and Gentlemen Sports*' 

4rencbed, swollen, and lacerated, men have in this case leavned to 

and of sheaths cut to ribbands I think beyond tliieboiindsy and wiitk 

The day is by-gone, we trust, for due contempt, of the cruel fei^iet 

evcfj when the Nortb-oountfy of aactcni frascriptioa. In thia 

Itftrses were started under the €c»p- homane and rational course, Sif 

fcMuiding and dismaying affright Chades Bunbtiry took the lead, aa 

and torture of the whip and spur, the Readers ftf the SpofAtg Maga^ 

apffied with all the muscuhir force suae will reeoUtct, in a feinaer ae- 

andhair-brained eagerness of those count, aonse two or three yeara 

iBS|>s, set cruelly on horseback by since, perhaps, of the BunlMiryae<» 

uofeeling and uoreftecting ideots, thod of training* 

who could view with gratifivation But we nrast not expcat that 

so beastly awl barbarous a sight l\ the owners of managera of horses. 

We hope never again to witness a in the eomaaon, and, alas I neees* 

sight so sickening to all humane sarily too severe and ofipvessive 

feeling, as occurred at Newmarket business of lila, either wjll <»r can 

about two-and-twenty years since, follow the mUd and gkaiooa ex- 

a0r to bear tKe brutish and idiotic ample aliove exhibited. It were 

temark, which we did hear. A enough, coold wa teacb tiiese last 

poor filly, tbe most deltc&te and some regard for the priiK^iplea of 

high-bred of her kind, ran her commou justice doe to brutes, 

c<Mirse throngb, with such excess which feel, as well as to ielhiw 

of bonesty and courage, that only men, and indace them to eurb 

ber eye-balls did not start, nor her their tyrannical passions; and to 

heart-strings burst. She was led abridge those useless and aaproil- 

from the ending post, dissected able severities which,, by eonataat 

alive by tbe whip, tUaniAy upon inhuman and senatiesa c«iatoai^ 

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iVey^XjEtrdse upon the poor beaiftts tbousand tiioes obterred^ and yet 

wl»icb Nature has subjected to witbout the possibility of aToidtng 

their arbitrary wilk a step, little or gceat. Now on 

Rttty as it was remarked la&t what ground does Mr. Nineoni* 

sooBth, in tiie accownt of craelties poop aforesaid indict such excess 

ii^cted -upon cage birds, ft is of of conrectknn, or any correctiea at 

Iktk Off no iise merely to declaim aU^ for an unavoidable MitciHnoe f 

against cruelty in general terms. To be sure, because the rage ai 

since the bond slaves of cnstoot Boba^Ul must needs oonnnand iri- 

wtU neter^ on their ovo sense or possibillltes^ and becasMe eestoniy 

recoUection, nsahe the par^oular the l«w of €ek)Is, has stamped her 

appitcadons: these must be pressed fiat on the case«— #Ae horat ham- 

upon the laenMMy uid rejection of tUfped^ and mmt be beatm, Vhrn- 

the delinquents. We will^ in con- loir voke of Reaaos and Couii 



formity, give two or three striking Sense has hitherta been nnhenni 
examples of perpetual occurrence, among too many, that tm poniidK 
and such as, subjected ta iieflec* meremisfortuncisvnt only nnjust^ 
ikm, onght to be striking. bat utterly useless $ that in this 

A nHm rides orer the Loodon psesent case it is most particularly' 
pwvemeat, when it is^ pressed by perilous^ since the horse, lirom the 
the sniQioch and prohahly too fright and agitation into which he 
wide surface #>l the horse»slioe, alh is plunged, must be liable to the 
most as atippery as glass. This al* risk of the most dangerows Mis, 
ways happens in very hot^ and in not only at the instant, but «f«r' 
moist and foggy weather. The after on the same oocasMo, intm' 
bovse mnkes a slip-^am) why > the n»coHectioD of former severity, 
simply, from the impossibility of Sven carekssness, in this example, 
nvoidn^ it. The man instantly, if it is mosc ohvioias, ought to he' 
fbaming with rage, and pak as corrected wilh moderation omA 
4kath*s head^or red as the gills of wariness, and indeed the utmost 
a turkey cock^ in full stnit, just as forbearance and temper should be 
Nature may have fomied him, extended to duash aninsals, mMfcln 
lii3Mivesed or plethoric, snatches to express their feelings, or expfantt 
stt and ehecks the sharp cin'b, per- the causes of their defirets and 
haps ten or a dozen times, with all failures. The semUborbarons in-> 
U'ls force of arms, until he has habitants oi the desert, the Be- 
illed the moath of the nnfortun^te douio Arabs, are £ar before th^ 
and really utioftending animal with most polished nations in this spe- 
blood! In the interim, for Mr. cies of rationality; and, to our ot- 
Ntnoompoop, in bis brutal parox- ter shame be it remarked, ahnasC 
ism, would lose no time, the spurs all other nations b^re the Silg<^ 
are both driven into the horse's Usfa! 

tides with the most frantic and There is « kindred foUy and cni«^ 
convakive moscidar exertions.—- elty, in daily and howrly exxrcise. 
Who's the fool in this case, the towanis carriage horses^ The least 
horse or the nuin?«— Not the nisapprdieasioi*, and presmnevi 
horse, surely, for he may very well erroneous torn, which a leader in 
iMve taken the utmost pains, and partkukur nmbes^ is pnnished withi 
have ased the utmost solicitude, to the most cutting severities of tha 
heep upon his leg% which I hi^is whip, coolinued, perhaps^ by thv 

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]iot-braiued jflck-ass iipoD the box« 
through baif^ or even the whole 
length of a street^ to the great 
danger of ht« own^ and the annoy- 
ance and danger of all other car^ 
riaget, horses, and foot passengers. 
This mishap usually occurs to the 
poor horse during an embarrass of 
carriages in the streets, or at a 
turning comer, when perliaps his 
mouth is directed by the bit a do* 
sen diiierent ways. in a minute or 
lmro> every one of which he is in 
dnty bodiid to answer, just as the 
coachman, in hie copfused and ea* 
ptf desire of snatching a turn to 
gfit forward, on the impulse of 
the moment, may make his pnlls^ 
A horse with much sensibility ia 
bis mouth,. or. having what may be 
styled. too good a mouth, in this 
dilemma suffers .dreadfully. He 
obeys the first puU, and probably 
wheels half round, before that is 
aocceeded by another pull, in »con* 
trary direction : ten to one .but. for 
that act of obedience be.reeeives as 
many. sharp lashes with the whip, 
across, the ears and face> as Mr. 
Coachman has leisure to inflict ^ — 
The horse now. becomes irritated, 
and confused, and plunges this 
way and that, as he feels the diffe- 
rent directions ; or sullen, and not 
being able to distinguish the true 
from the false pulls,., arms himself, 
with bis neck stifi^itnd refuses, to 
obey the. rein. In either case, 
whan tl>e definitive pull comes, 
it is great odds hut he mistake it, 
and then comes his terror. and his 
punishment. Getting at last into 
the rfght track, the affrighted crea- 
ture> well knowing what awaits 
bis misfortune, sets off as though 
be expected to he able to escape 
through bi&. harness, and the mad- 
man, or fool upon the -box, seeks 
to expiate or excuse his own er« 
lor^ by lashing it oat of the flesh 



of his blameless victim. The SkM 
abuse is exercised towards hQrsea 
with insensible months, which re-^ 
ally have not the feeling to discri* 
minate and obey these momentarj^ 
pulls, of Indications from the haml. 
In making a wrong tum^ and sud- 
denly rectifying it by an opposite 
pull, should there be the least bog- 
gle or stop, the hortfe is sure of se- 
vere, correction, merely because he 
does not possess the supernatural 
faculty of diving into the mind of 
his driver, and discovering its mo- 
tives, errors, and intentions. 

I wlU offer an example in point, 
within the knowledge and recollec- 
tion of the Editor : The present 
writer was driving in single har- 
ness a gelding, with an extremely 
delicate mouth, and feelingly alive' 
to every indication of the hand. A 
sharp turn was to be made to the 
right .; the horse had wheeled half 
round, when the driver, supposing 
he had taken the wrong road^ but 
in a sort of uncertainty, made a: 
sudden. slight pull in the other di« 
rectioUi which the horse, from his 
quickness, and the fineness of hit 
mouth, obeyed so promptly, as to 
be within a few inches of encoon*' 
tering a bank on the opposite side. 
Nothing can be more evident, thail 
that the horse wa& entirely void 
of blame, yet in bow many incon- 
siderate hands, under the circunw 
stance, would he have l)een whtp^ 
ped and w healed, and perhaps har-> 
rassed beyond his wind, a consi- 
derable distance ! 

It is a discouraging considera^ 
tion, that not only those pretend- 
ing humbugs, whose only know- 
ledge of driving consists in whip« 
pii^ and abuse of their horses^ 
which also, in their little opinions, 
constitutes the bravery and ecldi 
of their display, but also our most 
experieoced stage coach drivers, 

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ane guilty of tbe oselens and dan- 
gteffous foolery and cruelty of which 
we cofloplftin. A coacirtnaD iu an 
emharras^ generally wfai|is his €)ma 
blunders out of the bides of bis' 
horses. He is either so tyrannical 
from bis driving habits, as to ex- 
]>ect prompt and passive oblBdieBce< 
from bis horses,- understood 'or not^ 
or so conceited of' bis driving, as 
to be ashamed of either the sem- 
blance or possibility of crr<^r, 
which he thence always seeks to 
lay^ together with the' whip, upon * 
bis horses. 

Tlie last abuse which I shall at 
present |iost upon the piilars of' 
humaoity, is that of aged horses, 
which have acquired the habit of 
shying. This is constantly and 
severely pnnislietl, and the- error 
iafallibly encreases with the )hi- 
Mishment. In truth, * correction 
for this vice in a young horse; is ' 
invariably- useless> and something 
worse '; buit to> abuse an old>>horse ' 
for such a ddfect^ is contemptible 
and unmanly cruelty, la aged'' 
and debilitated horses, shying ge- 
nerally is occasioned by decayed 
and imperfect sight, which pre- 
sents objects to tbem erroneously; . 
and in frightful forms. Aecus- 
. toDied to the rigours of correction 
on e vei'y such occasion; ' 1 hey are ' 
sure to start and fly, endangerihg 
both^ their riders and themselves'. 
Instead of the whip and' spiif in 
this case, the true remedy is to 
throw the rein u|N>n the horsed 
neck, sooth bim^ under bis mi&^ 
ibrtnne, ami give hilli time to 
make the best use in^ bis power, 
of the small share of vision which 
old age and uniieiiittted4abourmHy 
have left bim. A boiise will soon • 
understand this raiionAl conduct, 
and lH>th Itcirae nd^ ridct will pro- 
fit' by it. It oiigbt also to be re* 
jnetqbered, thai iueor^ible sby« 

\W. XLL— No. %4U 



ing in youn^ horses, frek|u«iytlyt 
arises from tiefective sight. Simi- 
lar reasoning and advice is apfili- 
cable to the defect of sttnfUbltng 
in aged horses,, wfaidi is generally* 
to be ttttribiited to limbs worn onl- 
in the service,- rhuuniatism, and ' 
faukering debility. Yet' these 
steps of the .aged aild nnfortii^t* 
slave, are too often* puntsbed^wlth 
the grossest -barbal-ity, and Ux^kird 
u|ion through the eye of indiseri* 
minat6^y cnstoih, as real -and pu- 
nishable' offences. Surely jmttct 
is dime to all such* creatures as '^ 
have the faeblty of being seil8tt>le 
of ka defects 3' and yet bow feW 
men- htive eitamined and 8Sber« 
tained the nature of- that jusricf) 
wh ich is due to beasts ! The b^st 
posbsble rule in the mairogeJbeht 
of the hoi'se; is to bring intb uSe 
as much a9 possible of tempenince 
and pativuce, and to make at limst 
the resoliitton/ never to'cotrreet 
witWpiisssoni I adfhrc^ not my* 
seif now to those horrible wri^dics^ 
who- obtain their livmg' or tKrir 
profit fai* leasr hmMfurkblyitlisii tba 
highwayman does his — from the 
blood and sweat, and sobs and 
groans^ of the already worn out 
horse, in which they seek to stimu- 
late and renew the drooping ener* 
gies'bf health' tiiid strength, by the 
appRcatii)^ of the inost ingenious 
and lacerating tortures. In the 
faetght of my aliomination, I am 
at ' a loss which to curse — the 
wretches themselves, or the nece»* 
sity by wbich' they mAv b^ ini^ 
pelli-d. « I4.' 



ON CRITICS. 



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''PHERE is no cbaricfer more 

' cominon in the* Ikfetrbpolis 

than tbat of the ^vitkt, wbor coUt 

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deuiDS decisively, and in insolent 
opposition to the general opinion 
of bis fellow men, merely because 
nature bas refused bim tbe faculty 
of receiving delight from one or 
another particular kind of excel* 
]ence. If there be any of the 
tribe who are not quite so pre* 
sumptuous as the rest^ an atten- 
tion to the following anecdote 
may be of service to thein ; 

An Ennach, named Osroin, was 
commissioned by a Turkish Pacha 
to purchase stock for his Haram. 
The poor creature did bis best for 
several years to please his' master, 
but without success. At length a 
merchant of Marseilles, who was 
acquainted with him, found him 
at Smymia, among a nuoiberof fe^ 
male Circassians, exposed for sale, 
and who, the one more beautiful 
than the other, kept bim in a pain- 
ful uncertainty as to which he 
should choose. *' Osmin," said be^ 
*' observe that little bronette you 
liave hitherto overlooked ) if you 
purchase her you may rest assured 
your Pacha will thank you." The 



Eunuch followed his lTiend*8 ad- 
vice, and had reason to he pleased 
with it. Six months afterwards 
he met him again at Aleppo, and 
thanked bim for his opportune in- 
terposition, telling him, at tbe 
same time, that (he Pacha |>erfectly 
adored the little brunette, and beg- 
ging him to acquaint htm with the 
principle which liad led to the for- 
mation of so sound an opinion. 
*' You shall know it,** replied the 
Marseillese. '' From the moment 
I saw tbe girl set on shore from the 
vessel in which she had been con- 
veyed to Smyrna, which was some 
days before you purchased her, I 
never ceased thinking of and long- 
ing for her, insomuch that I could 
hardly sleep of nights y and, you 
may rest assured, that bad I been 
master of five hundred sequins, I 
would have raised • tlu^ matket on 
the Pacha: -now -you are master of 
my secret." " Alas!" said the 
Eunuch, hanging down his head„ 
and walking away, '^ Izet plamfy 
that / o(Ai neo^ make any «se of 

xtr 



WINNERS 



OF THE 



3T. 



LEGBR STAKES, AT DONCASTER, FROM THEIR FI^IST 

» COMMENCEMENT, 



I BY y. PICK, OP YORK. 



Yedm, 

i77Q 
^777 
J77S 

1779 

3780 
JI781 
1782 
1783 
1784 
3785 



Owners, * Winners, 

J ORD Rockingbam*s . br. bay filly, . . . . 

Mr. 8otheron*s .... Bourbon, 

Sir T. Gascoigne*s HoUandoise, . . . 

Mr. Stapleton's Tommy, ...... 

Mr. Betheirs Ruler, 

Col. RadcHffe's Sarina, 

Mr. Goodricke*8 Iniperatrix, . . . . 

Sir J, L. Kaye*s. .,.•,... Phenomenon, . . 

Mr. C6ates*s ........... Ompbale, 

Mr. Hill's . ; . . . . ;. /, . . Cow«lip, 



' Siret. 
Sampson . . 5 
he Sang . . lO 
Matcb*em . . 8 
Wildair ...10 
Y. Marsk . . 7 
Goldfinder. . 9 
Alfred .... 5 
King Herod 4 
Highflyer . . 7 
Highflyer.; 10 



2^0, No, of 
started, sab. 

6 

12 
16 
15 

17 
13 

9 
9 

27 

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t ^0, N6, of 

Tears, Owners, Whmers. Siret* started, suB^ 

1786 Lord A. Hamilton's .... Paragon, Paymaster. . 8 14 

1^87 Lord A. Hamilton's . . . . Spadille, ...... Highflyer. , 6 9 

1788 Lord A. Hamilton's .... Young Flora, . . Highflyer , . 5 10 

1789 Lord Fitzwilliam's Pewett,* Tandem . . 6 g 

1790 Mr. Goodricke's Ambidexter,. . . . Phenomenon 9 1 6 

3791 Mr. Hiitchirt8on*s Y. Ttaveller> . . King Fergus 8 14 

1792 Lord A. Haniilton's Tartar, Florizel . . 11 22 

1793 Mr. Clifton'^ Ninety-three, . . ilPlorizel . . 8 1^ 

1794 Mr. Hutchinson^s Beningbrough,. . l^ing Fergus 8 I9 

1795 Sir C. Turner's Hambletonian>. . King Fergus 5 12 

1796 Mr. Cookson's Ambrosio> .... Sir Peter . . 7 15 

J 7Q7 Mr. Goodricke's Lounger, ...... Drone .... 8 12 

1798 Sir T. Gascoigne*s Symmetry, .... Delpini. ... 10 14 

1 jgg Sir H. T. Vane's. , Cockfighter, Overton . . 7 12 

1800 Mr. Wilson's Champion, Pot8o'8 10 17 

1801 Mr. Goodricke's Qniz, Buzzard ..8 11 

1802 Lord Fitzwilliam's Orville, Beningbro' . 7 15 

1 803 Lord Strathmore's. . . ^ . . Remembrancer, .Pipator. ... 8 23 

1 804 Mr. MelUsh's Sancho, DonQuixotel 1 24 

1605 Mr. MelUsh's Staveley, Shuttle. ... 10 27 

1806 Mr. Clifton's Pyldener Sir teter ..15 39 

1 807 Lord FitzwiUiam*s Pauliba, Sir Peter . . I6 41 

1 808 Duke of Hamilton's Petronius, Sir Peter . . 12 28 

1809 Duke bf Hamilton's Ashton, Walnut ... 14 51 

1810 Duke of Leeds's Octavian, Stripling . . 8 40 

1811 Mr. Gascoigne's Soothsayer, .... Sorcerer . . 24 ^ 63 

1812 Mr. Rob's Otterington, . , . Golumpus. . 24 57 

* The Duke of Hamilton's Zanga, by Laurel, came in first, but in 

consequence of a jostle, proved to have been given by the Duke's rider, 

PeWett was deemed the winner, and Lord Fitzwilliam received the 
Stakes. 

AN ELECTION SCENE> 

IN A COUNTRY BOROUGH. 



A Committee" Room, a Table, and Wine. 



Canvass, Bustle, Justice 'Wine- Vault, Bonfire, ^ Chandler, Or. Mac Fracture^ Goosey 

a Tailor, &c. discovered. 

r^ANVASS, OS Pres, How many Justice Wine. You know I am, 

votes,Mr.Goose, can you bring? by profession, a wine -merchant. 

Goose. I can bring nine to day, but by trade, a justice of peace | 

nine to-morrow, and nine more, if therefore, I think I may venture 

wanted before the poll closes. to promise you all my bad debts. 

Can. What are they ? and every poor housekeeper hi my 

Goose. Tailors, district. 

D 2 i^«n. 



^ XH£ 

t Bon. Since I was a tallow- 
chandler, and my nai^e was Bon- 
iire, I never kne>v s\x(^ times ) uiy 
interest is burnt out. 

Can, you, no ^oubt, bavc great 
interest, Dr. Mac Fracture } 
' Mac Frac. Nothing like what I 
bail, I Scarce ^U a dose of physic 
in a week; never galled up a- 
nifhts; no chauce cu^omers drop- 
ping in for a do9e .of salts, or to 
get rid 9f a tooth $ ai^d as I am a 
Christian, I have not ^rawn a drop 
of hlood this fbr.tnight. 

Can. Mr. Bustle, ^ow do you 
stand for votes ? 

Btui, Why, let me see — there's 
Will Cogditt, ,the kt^eper of the 
&. O. table, in Blac^-bail Alley, 
and bis interest } then there's the 
landioni' of the BIu^ Bear, the 
Slack tipne, and ^he Greeif^f an^ 
and my J^osoni friend^ Love Frolic^ 
tiiat was pat in possession of the 
round-house last nigl^t ; all these 
I can promise, to a certainty, as 
sopd reputable votes, besides two 
Irish cousins of my wife, that at 
any time are ready to be qualified. 

Mnt^raSieniant 

^erv. There are several electors 
cpipe to o4ef tb^ir interest. 

Can. Shew them in one by one. 

Goose, Ave, shew them in, and 
ril examine them. 

Enter Bristle: 

Goose. Pray friend what's your 
name? 

Bris. Bristle. 

Goose. A very good naine^ truly 
-r-what trade are you ? 

Bris, A Cobler. 
. Goose, A very good trade too, 
i\nd suits Bristle to a hair. Are 
you a housekeeper ? 

Bris. Yes, 

Goose, Where do yoQ Hve ? 

Brig, At the eornw Qf Heeltap 
Alley. 



iUAGAZINB. 

Goose. A very genteel qnartcp 
of the town, near ttve qiaiket' place, 
I know it : do you let any part of 
your house to lodgers ? 

Bris. Yes, the roo^, to chano« 
elastomers. 

jCan, Zounds ! this ^llow Uvea 
iu a stall. 

Goose, A stall ! I say. Sir, it's 
a very good dweUing-bouse. Do 
you eat and drink in .it« friend 
gristle ? 

Bris. Yes. 

Xioose, Doyousleepin.it} 

Bris. Yes, 

Groove. And pay rent for it ? 

Bris, Yes. 

Goose, Then you are a bouse* 
k^per, though you lived in a thim- 
ble. But, friend Bristle, your, 
appearance wants mending very 
mMch. 

Bris. No wonder. Sir, for I 
c^rry my awl uj>on my back, and 
my credit's at an end every where. 

Can. Can we depend upon you, 
are you sound ? 

Bris, As a new pump. 

Can, Then, here, take this pa- 
per, (gives him a folded paper.) 
Mind, I give you nothing but 
p£(|)er, and let me see you at .the 
hustings in about an hour, (Bristle 
fumbles with the paper, and drops 
money.) 

Can, l^ind, that must be your 
own — we gave you only paper. 

Bris, Yes, yes, it is my ownj 
and my fingers are wax-^t will 
stick to them. 

{Bristle runs 0¥U 

Enter Jail Bird very shabby. 

Goose. Here comes a vote that 
seems to have no great interest witU 
the tailor's company. 

Jail, I'm come to give my vote 
and interest to Master Bribewell. 

Can, Why, are you a house- 
keeper? 

Jail. 



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• Jaii. Yes; btit I was burnt out. Proteus., an humble retainer of the 
Goote, He was burnt out of law, ignominiously HtstinguUked 
Bridewell, gentlemen, but his -vote's by the name of a petti-fogg^r. 



good; for there's a new house 
building for him. 

Can, Get about your business, 
friend, we can never venture such 
a shabby rascal on the hustings. 



Can, Very well, Mr. Proteus, I 
wish you*d write down your six 
dames for me, and the six diflferent 
places of your abode, in the order 
you mean to give your votes, to 
prevent any mistaikes in the polling, 

lExU Proteui. 



G^ase, Softly, softly, Mr. Can- 
vas, a coat may be so2rd, and still 

worth turning; this fellow will c,,^^,„uh^ l^a^ u^d^k 

pass among the journeymen, if Enter Sertar^ wtih a Letter, which 

you d disguise him in a clean shirt 



•ad a Dew suit of oloatbs— -whaVs 
jour name, friend } 

JaU. JailliinL 

Goa$e. Well, Mr. Jail Bird, if 
yoiiil go wash your bealc, and your 
claws, i*ll give you a new suit of 
(iwthers to your back. 



hegiveito Canmte, 

CanvaSt (reading the wperserip^ 
tionj, " For the President of the 
Committee." 

Goose. Come, read it out, for iti 
Committee business. 

Can. (reads), *' Sir, being a long 



time acquainted with the nature o; 
[Erif JaU Bird, elections, and knowing of how 



Enter Servant, 
Ser. Mr. Proti'us, gentlemen, 
^fesires to be admitted. 
Can. Shew him in. 

[ErU Servant. 

Enter Proteus, 

Can, I su|)posej Sir, you are an 
elector ? 

Prof. I have six votes at your 
service. 

Goose, When can you bring 
them ? 

Prot, I can bring one every two 
hours. 



much use certain persons are upon 
certain occasions, I recommend 
the bearer of this letter to you; 
there's no man can do so much ; 
he can raise any number, and it 
worth his weight in gold. I am. 
Sir, with hearty wishes for ycMir 
success, your obedient servant, 

«' Jacob Titledebd." 
Zounds, this is Titledeed, my at« 
tomey ! this is some great man to 
assist us with his interest, for he 
says that no man can do so much. 

Godse. Ay, and he says, he is 
worth his weight in gold; then 



Can. I wish you could bring who knows but it is some rich J euT 

them in a body, as we want to cut that's come to lend us money? 
Some figure the first day upon the Can. Egad, I know who it is ! 

hustings. Did you take notice of the fvbrds, 

Prot. That is impossible, Sir, ** certain persons, upon certain 
for I can't change my dress in less occasions?" He does not care to 
than an hour. I am first a house speak out, it's Lord Pollall. Title- 
painter ; and the same coat, with deed promised to speak to him 
the addition of a bine a])ron and a about bis interest. — Shew his Lord- 
greasy night cap, serves me for a ship in. (All get up vn abustlej^ 
butcher. I then give ray vote as i? ■# l. 
a plumber and glazier; next as a Enter Marrowlfne. 
barber ; next as a buker ; and last Can. Who the devil is this ■ 
#f all, in the character of Ned a butcher ? 

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Goose. Ay^ this is the Marcjuis roand — ^butallin tbe wayof trade^ 

«f Leadenhali-unarktt. and lor the good of old EogUod, 

Mar. What do ye all stare at, for I hate bribery, d'ye see me, and 

like so many stuck ]>igs? — Which all undue influence, 
4>f ye is the Fresident } Can. Now, Mr. Marrowbone^ 

Can. Friend, 1 am the President, we are all come to a perfect «n- 

smd heg you wouhl remove our derstanding. Sir, and if you will 

suspense by letting us know by step to the kitchen, all my interest 

what means you came by Lord boiled, baked, and roasted, is at 

Follairs letter. your service for your kindness. 

Mar. Lord Pollall, who the de- Mar. Good bye. Goose, 
til is^ he? 1 never ^beard of his Goose. Geod bye. Marrowbone, 
name before. {,E?:U Marrowbone* 

Can. Perhaps you got it from his^ Can. Let us beoflf to the bust- 
footman } ings immediately, and be sure cry 

Mar. His footman I I got it loudly for liberty and property, and 

liom old Titledeed. I was going the constitution, 
to see some fine calves, when he Goose* Friend Canvas, the skirt» 

Eoisted me and seven more into a of the constitution are grown tou. 

waggon, at Temple Bar, and made long. The lappelb and buttons 

ue come here to visit you. are increasing, and they ought to 

Goose. Very much obliged to be cut short, after a new fashion, 
you, for paying us a compliment. Exeunt OmnesJ 

in preference to the calves. 

Can. May I crave your name } =" ' ■ * * 

Mar. My name is Marrowbone > 

8o crack your jokes upon that if DESCRIPTION OF A CONVICT 
you please. SHIP. 

Goose. Wliat, my old friend 

Marrovvbone, of Cleaver Alley ! I THHE appearance and regulatioa 
iiad almost forgot you, 1 have not of a Convict Ship, are as sin- 
seen you, since you and I raised the gular as the novel punishment of 
last niol) at Brentford. ti'ansportation, or as a regulated 

Can. Your interest must he very colony of very lawless convicts^ 

greats for Titledeed says you can Order and discipline, necessary to 

raise any number. such an abandoned society, prevail 

Mar. So I can at a whistle ; I'll in every part of the ship. The 

have a mob round the hustings in men are arranged in one long line,, 

iive minutes, that will let nobody the women in a second ; but the 

vote but whom they please; and sexes are separated. The former 

burn the poll-books if you think dine upon their bedsteads, the lat- 

proper. ter sleep on a species of table^ 

Can. Upon my word, Mr. Mar- three longitudinally and two col- 

rowbone, though you may not be laterally. To preserve snbordina- 

worth your weight in gold, yon are tion and regularity, a soldier in hitf 

worth your weight in brass at any regimentals is placed at the inter- 

ciection. vai of ten convicts, as their guard* 

Mar. I can darken any man*s An adequate space is left in the 

daylights at a blow, have every lowest hail for the cockpit and 

Biob in the kingdom at my com- surgery -, a second space bctweea 

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flecks for the stowage or stores ; 
and a third on the quarter for the 
apartment of the free^settlers, and 
for the cabins or beds of the offi- 
cer, AH the convicts are com- 
pelled to wash once in the day 
their heads^. their feet, and their 
faces; the men under the snperin- 
tendance of a Soldier ; the women 
apart, under the eye of a matron. 
The maies are marched in a body 
of six across the deck to the punip; 
the saiiors draw up the water, and 
they are artfully compelled to la- 
bour for health at the pump, and 
rinse away the dirt. By this |>ru- 
dcnt precaution, in every variety 
of weather, they obtain fresh air, 
and avoid the scurvy or cutaneous 
diseases. A Surgeon every day 
inspects this human cargo, and re- 
iwrts its state. They are paid, 
]ier heady a snm for those who 
survive the voyage. Hence, it is 
the Soi^bn*s intei'est to preserve 
the lives of those diseased wretches. 
To inure the assembly, disgorged 
from brothels, alehouses; and gaols, 
to the appearance, or to the idea 
of decorum, the men wash their 
bodies above deck«, and the women 
between them. The sexes are for- 
bid to mingle, even at their meals. 
So yjgorous a discipline is only sup- 
ported by severity of punishment. 
Chuos, fastened round the body, 
and aecavely fettered around the 
anIUes, confine and distress each 
male cowvictby the clanking sound, 
and by annoying the feet. This 
ioMger of slavery is copied from the 
irona'used in the slave ships in 
Guinea ; as in these, bolts and 
locks also are at hand, in the sides 
and ribs of each transport, (tor the 
yetsels on this service, with [lecu- 
liar propriety, are so named,) to 
prevent the escape,*or preclude the 
movements of a convict. If he at- 
tempt to pass the cen^re^ be is 



liable to be stabbed ; for the at- 
tempt, a convict was lately shot, 
and his executioner was applauded 
by his otiicer for a faithful, though 
severe, discharge of duty. If a. 
felon kill bis companion, a case 
very frequent in the quarrels <ji 
these highwaymen and robbers, 
the murderer is hung at the yard- 
arm, and his body is slowly carried 
through the ship, and launched 
into the deep. For the theft of 
provisions, or of clothes from his 
neighbour, a case yet more com- 
mon and more natural tofootpads^ 
the convicted depredator is shot. 
For inferior crimes, as riot or quar- 
rels, a soldiec is "ordered to whip, 
the offender with martial severity. 
On the ^slightest appearance of 
mutiny, the ring-leader is cast 
headlong into the sea, in hisHrons 
and in his clothes. — *' We commit 
this body to the deep," the Chap- 
l>tin repeats 3 but the words of 
Shakespeare, would, perhaps, be 
more applicable : 

** O mutineer, if thou hast any hope of 

Heav*n*8 bliss. 
Lift up thy hand ; make signal of that 

hope. 
He sinks, and makes no sign !" 

It will be remembered, that 
America was first populated by^uch 
characters. • 



CARD-PLAYING CENSURED- 



TN an Essay lately published on 
card-playing, the writer thus 
freely condems this very prevalent 
amusement : — 

" Custom and fashion reconcile 
us to a thousand odd sensations ^ 
otherwise I am convinced, there 
are many honourable minds, which 
would revolt at the idea of possess- 
ii^ themselves of other people's 
money, however trifling the amount. 



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)>y means of a game at cards ; in* 
deed tbeiDsigniticanceof the stake 
would be ao inducement with tbem 
to reject^ rather than to arcept, 
what ibey may k>ve woo ; for tltote 
who possess any honourable feel« 
ings at all^ always estimate tbem 
too highly to sacrifice them for ao 
vndue consideration. But, how- 
ever general n>ay be tlie practice 
BOW to receive card-nMNaey, and 
to expeiience no disagreeable sen- 
sation at the time of taking it, all 
those whose notions of propriety 
are rightly regulated^ must have, 
felt somewhat awkward, when 
they won their first game, and 
when, for play or diversion, they 
fif^t permitted somel>ody, whom 
perhaps they had little respect for, 
to empty the contenta of his )iurse 
into jUeir own. Custom and fa- 
sbifm thus sanction, what a nice 
sense of honour would not permit f 
and tl^s card-player coolly and 
composedly appropriates to him- 
aelf the property of others, with- 
out exchanging it for any value^ 
or even acknowledging an equi va- 
leot obligation. If this be morally 
correct, it is, to say the best of it> 
sn anomaly in morals. 

^* Shakespeare h«& saHl, thit 
' Men are but children of a .larger 
growth )* and if we want any con- 
firmation of the truth of this re- 
mark, as applied to tlie inhabitants 
of our own nation, we shall find it 
m their infatuated fondness for 
•;»rds t— for cartls are but toys, — 
mere playthings for the use of 
cbildrc'n. Jt is recorded, that they 
were iiweuted for the amusement 
of a Prince, wb*> was prevented by 
helplessness ami affliction, fromt. 
joining: vn tUe common pleasures 
and ]>ursuits,of men. Royalty ever 
has its imitators, and the acciilental 
defects with wliicb it has l>een 
sported,, have been the most gclle-^ 



rally, because perliqM tiiey arr tbe> 
most easily, co|iied* A false laatiflr 
has thus been thirown over kinglf ^ 
imj)erfections; and fashion^ kuve 
frequently been invested co supply* 
deficiencies under which some have* 
labouredji while those,, who have 
followed the faabioB, baTekx>lishly 
afiected to possess the deficieaciea' 
also. Alexander the Great y/nm 
not (he only king, whose penontil 
defects were aped by his cotirtiert;. 
nor is the hoop, the only fashioD 
which was assumed by those, to 
whose figMcs H was prejttdiciaL. 
All the Yvorlfl must betonoie idiots, 
and play at cavds^ Wause a Frenek • 
king once aoiuaed himself witb 
tbem when mad } • and every hody^ 
by encouraging, ihia foolish diver- 
sion, must show forsooth, hoir 
much they lack that, which its first 
invention wa2» int^Bcled to sHyply-^ 
reason. 

" It is thus that caid-playiDg 
owea the p^rpi^ualjon of >its infln-^ 
encetothe sovereign sway of fa* 
shion f for to excel in it has- ever 
been considered as> aniaccompliilK 
ment indispensible fot^ the gentle^ 
miaii, although it is tlir'quAifictt«* 
tion of a sharper. ' Yet it has- aU 
vr ays appeared 'Strange tome^ that 
men of high birth tmd fashioa 
should countenance this diversion^ 
for it is one o£ their well-known 
weaknesses, to hold tradesmen,, 
and all tlie trafiichtng . notiooa 
which characterise them, in niter 
contempt and aliibonrence.. Canle 
are insejmrahly connected with 
these traffiching notions f for wh^re * 
there is an interchange of money». 
as at a gappe^f cards, tlie obiio&i-*^ 
ons idea 9S baiter and • exclvinge 
must always obtriick itself. Hoat^ 
is it then that men of rank recent. . 
cile themselves;, to thift ineunaisr 
tency ? 

V Qjxx it is not only omon£; 

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folks of distincti(»i3> that tbis cus^ 
toni is encouraged. Every tavera 
in the kingdom has its whisti>clubs> 
and every t'amily its evening card* 
party. The Duchess may give her 
fashionable routs^ and throw open 
her elegant mansion to royalty and 
nobility; but the lady of every 
9hop-keeper has also her whist-ta- 
bles prepared for her friends, imroe* 
diately the shutters are closed. 
Not only is every petty house- 
keeper and master of a family seized 
with this mania for cards; but 
every journeyman mechanic, who 
9an command a rooin large enough 
to contain a couple of whist-tables, 
issues his Invitations for " a rubber 
and sandwiches" 

" As ' gentle dullness ever lovet 
a joke,* folly is sometimes ingeni- 
ous ; and many plausible defences 
of card-playing have been set up, 
which may have the effect of in- 
€t*easing its votaries, without sanc- 
tioning its prevalence. The plain 
and sober moralist, however, who 
thinks it his duty to remind men of 
the value and importance of time, 
must ever regard it as a custom, 
which is but useless when it is not 
riiinous, and frivolous when it is 



not vicious. 



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BOXING. 



A^ 



Most resolute battle was fought 
en the 6tb Inst, at Greenford 
Common, Middlesex, betwixt Hoi" 
lew ay t known better by the appel- 
lation of the Battersea Gardener ; 
and Fffrd^ the West Countryman, 
of whose merit as a pugilist we 
bare often lately had occasion to 
notice. Hollo way weighed i2st. 
gib. and-Ford 1 1st. 61b. but the dis- 
paragement in weight was not 
thought much of by Ford's friends, 
as the gardener was considered a 

Vol. XL»-No. 24K 



slow and not a punishing hitter^ 
whilst Ford was known, to possess 
game> with the advantage of being 
a more effective hitter. A battle, 
which lasted two hours and tkrei 
minutes, was fought The secondi 
were T. Jones and Joe Norton for 
Ford, and Caleb Baldwin and Sil* 
yerthorne forHoUoway. The con- 
test cai^ be generally described in a 
few lines. No blow of any conse- 
quence was struck until the fifth 
round, when Ford planted a crash** 
ing hit on his adversary's left eye> 
which nearly closed it» and made 
betting, which was even at setting* 
to, five and six to four on Ford. 
HoUoway had the advantage ia 
about the tenth round, and he kept 
it for some time. Ford having gone 
off from weakness, but he recovered 
himself twice during the fight, and 
led for some time. He made some 
good stops, and shewed himself de- 
cisively the best hitter, but he was 
combating with a man who stood 
over him, and who, if not an alarm- 
ing punisber, had strength enough 
to bore Ford away. Hoiloway 
had only a glimmer of tight for the 
last three quarters of an hour of 
the battle, but F6rd*s hurts arose 
more from falls than from blowf. 
He can beat any commoner or ruf*> 
fian of his weight, but his anxiety 
to fight leads him int^;'jbatches> 
where weight with equal goodness 
must be served. Ford*s right leg is 
considerably shorter than his left;, 
and the former being much re« 
quired to support advancing or re* 
treating, fails him when tbe'franie 
begins to get exhaust^, and he 
cannot avoid going down. The 
gardener at last bad enough to do 
to win. 

The battle was fpr a subscrip* 
tion purse of twenty guineas to the 
winner, and five guineas to the 
loser. 

E NSW- 



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ISOL SRHlTSnO UAQAZmH. 



N£WMAUKET MEETINGS, 

Abridged jof imntt xifroom^fbut to begiuen. at 
leiigth «A our Calendar fvr next Mmtk. 

JfSWMJMHET ftECOWD pCTOJJUl 
MEB(riN». 

I^ONDAY, October 12.---0<ie- 

thirdx)!; a 8ii(^8cr]|itioD of 25gs. 
f ach, B. C.^Ld O. ti. CaveudiOi'^ 
Fiorival walked over.^-Mr. T4ir« 
D(*r*s Juan of Arc beat Mr. A. God" 
diu'd*s BrigJitonia^ Ab. M. lOQgs* 
h. ft.— Kven.—D. uf Rutland** 
Grijn^ilkih, beat Mr. Siiakespear'^ 
Tumbler, Ab. M. 200g«. h. ft.~ 
7 to 4 on iGriinaikin.-^Ld G. H. 
Cavepdi^b's iBccleston beat Mr. 
^hakespeai-'B Hydasf>.es. T. Y. C, 
3Pqgfi.<^2 to 1 on Ec^leston. — 
The Tboii&am] Guiaeao Stakes of 
SOOgs. eacb^ D. I. were won by 
tbe Duke of Rutlamrs Elizabeth, 
beating Sir J. SheUy*s Comus, and 
the Dukeof Graftoa*s Joe Miller. 

rire^doy.— The Fifty Pouufla 
for colt« and fiUjes, T. Y. C. waa 
won by Lord F. Osboiiie^s July, 
beating Mr. Saudiver's bl. f. iUack 
Beauty, and D. of Grafton'^i br. f. 
Piccjuet, by Sorcerer. — Mr. [jake*8 
Venture agst Lord Rouses Flanifi- 
go, D. M. lOOgt. b. ft —Dead 
heat.-— Lord Staweirs Cato beat 
Jtfh Shakespear** Jolter, T. Y. C. 
lOOgs. — ^Iiord Sackville*s Young 
Eagle, beat Gen. Gower's Anasta- 
sia^JXM; lOOgs. 

Wtsifnesday,— The Town Plate 
of.50L T. M. M. B. C. won by Sir 
J. Sbelly's Stingtail, beating Mr. 
Blake's Accident and two others. 
—The First Class of the Oatlands 
Stakes of 30gs. each, B. M. was 
WO0 by Mr. Lake's Venture^ beat* 
ing Gen. ijk>wer*s Anastatia and 
two others. 

T^buridoy.— The Second Class of 
the Oatlands Stakes of 30gs. each^ 
K. M. w:a9won by Mr. WindhamV 
Sister to Castanea, beating tbe 
Puke of Grafton** Woeful^ and 



thf«e dtbevs.— 4lr. Shak^fMr^s 
tiydttiirs *beat Mr. A«Nhrew*s Tto- 
plNMiriiis, D. M. SQgs. 
- I^ttc^.'^^andioap SweefMtdbea 
i>f aogs. each, T. Y. C. was won 
by t0^ G. H. <:4iteiHii«h*s Eccle- 
ttna, beaftmg Mr. Lake's Britannia 
•mI Mr. ^hakesfiear't iaher.-^ 
Sweepsrtarkvs of dOgs. each, T. Y. 
C« won hy Mr. £lwes*« c* by Or>- 
viUe, heatkig Gen. Qower's f. kff 
Sorcerer, and two othef«.*-*^Lai4 
Lowther^s Jafian beat Major Wit* 
ftcm's Erelnis, T. Y. C. SOgs^^Lord 
SackviMe's Young Eagle, beat 
Lord 6. H. Caveoilisb^ Barrosa^ 
T. Y. €. iCOg«. 



NEWMARKET THIRD OCTOBBX, Oft 
HOV6MTOK MSBTINO. 

Mondmy, Octol>er 26.— The Gar- 
den Stakes of lOOgs. each, T. M. 
M. won by the Duke oi Rutland's 
Grimalkin, beating Mr.* Shakes- 
pear's Chester and Lord Jerseys 
Invalid. — Sweepstakes of lOOgs. 
each, D. I. won by Mr. Dawson's 
Cambrian, beating Lord C. H. So* 
merset's Angelo and Major WiU 
son's Erebus.— *Gen. Grower*^ Ana* 
statia, 8st. 5lb« beat Mr. A. God- 
danl's. Brigbtonia, Sst. y\b, A. M. 
lOOgs. — Sir John Shelley's Com us, 
8st. 7lb. beat Mr. Lake's Pointers, 
8st. 41b. Ab. M. 200gs.— The 
Duke of Grafton's Whalebone, 5 
years old, beat Mr. Lake's Turner, 
2 years old, a feather. Ab. M. 
200gs. — Six matches Went oW, by 
forfeit being paid. 

Tuesday, — Fifty Pounds for all 
ages, wat won by Mr. ThornhiU** Aqua^ 
rius. beating Picauet and Venture.^-Lord 
C. H. Somerset's Offa's Dyke won a sweep- 
stakes of loogs. baiting Scrub and Sorcery. 
Lord Fole/s Teazfe beat Lord G. H. Ca- 
vendish's Eccleston, loogs.— lx>rd G. H. 
Oiivendij>h'8 Merry-go-rouud, beat Lord 
Foley's Osprey, lOpgs. 



FLYING LEAP, 

AK BTCHINO BY HOWIl>T. 

To face Mi* Page. 

FEAST 



THE SfOVrmQ lAlClftZINS. 



35 



FE.AST OF- WIT. 



Y^S have been reqpe&ted by ^ 
CorrespondeiUj Iq insert tbp 
following account of the Cbicbes • 
ter anecdote,, as being more coiireqt 
than tbe neppct given, of tbe oc- 
currence aljuilod to> in, our la^t 
number : — 

'* A gentleman r4;siding at Cbl- 
cbester, has. ti)e. misfortune to be 
extremely deaf Ojie nighty, aliout 
tbe commencement of tbe present 
year, tbe weatber was so uncom- 
monly tempestuous, tbat tbe bowl- 
ings of tbe burri^ano were dis- 
tinctly audi|)le even to tbe wortby 
gentleman in question : a circum- 
stanoe so unusual gave bim sucb 
an idea of tbe fury of tbe storm, 
tbat be naturally enough conclud- 
ed, the tenors of the night would 
forx» the leadii^ topic of; conveiv- 
sation. for theiday : with this, inno- 
cent presunp^on, he at length 
salliediforth for bis morning's wiaik, 
and being' shortly aftenwanria sa- 
luted by a friend, across thi^ sti*eet, 
with " How d*yedotbis morning? 
How's four vnfe?"* biuskly nejilied, 
'' Very totiMfy mdeed! I neqcr 
pa9s*d such a>n^ht in. m^. life; I do 
asswe f(m L ihiight I should hfwe 
been blown ouli of fay bed HP* 

• ( 

Ei,9ca;i.0N Bph Mox^ — During 
tbe poU at Westminster, in the yeuj* 
1784^ a dead cat, being thrown on 
the bus^jogs,, one of Sir Ceci) 
\yray/si party obser^d, that if 
stunk worse than a. ^o;y; to. which 
jyif. Fqx rep)ied, *' there w^s 
nothing c^xtraordinary in that, cour 
(iderjng it was a PQll-c^tr 

On Mr. BlackmarCs arrival as a 
cimdidate> at Kingston-upon-HuU^ 



a wa^ gave it out that be was an 
4fncan^ on. which the mob set fii:e 
to his coach and burnt it to ashes. 
Mr. B. in* consequence left the 
town. 



A POOR Hibernian soldier hav- 
ing by some accident received a 
ball in his i^ack at the battle of Sa- 
lamanca, was lamenting to one of 
his coinpanions.tbatbe should. have 
been souufortunale ae to be hit 
behinil, as his friends, would- ioift* 
gine be was running away. The 
other reconciled him to his hard 
fate, however, by advising bim to 
say, he hadigtUup in such a kurn^, 
that he put his coat on. tike land side 
befor<e. 

I^iv haninfp been whlspened thatia 
statsie of Mtm Sheridan, in whUe 
•marble, wiis.to be one of tbe-oms^ 
ments of the grAnd saloon, in neir 
Dniry-laneTheatFe, a wag inquired 
whether a statue in bronze would 
not he mpre appropriate h 

An I>fPUDENT Thie*.— Some 
fellow stole a fine bay mare, this 
months near Bolton, and left an 
old, spavined, brokeii-knee*d, grey 
mare in its f^ce. 1?o add to> the 
insult, the. fellow < had tied to. the 
tail a piece of paper, on which was 
written tbe old- rogueCs motto, 
-'* swappery is fio robbery /" 



A comfT^Y fellow was lately 
examined before tbe Dover Mar 
gistratcs, on a charge of hdvihg 
inarried three wives. IJ.is excuse 
wasj his being on the recruiting 
service. 

31 2 A WIT, 



30 



THE SPORTING MAGAZINE. 



A WIT, meeting liis friend, who 
was greatly afflicted with the gout, 
beartily shook hands with hini» 
ami saidy he was bap|i}r to see be 
was so rich : *' Rich !** said his 
friend^ (much surprised) '* why, I 
bavejust failed in business.** ** No 
matter for that/* said the Wit, 
•' you have a very krgc Leg-i* 
seer 



IMPROMPTU. ' 

On a Woman who lat^y contrived to aeap€ 
Jrom Prison vndtr her Friend^ t Petticoats. 

How bftd her luck, how in her thrift. 
Hie Oirl who's driv'n to her last shift i 
But to what ttr^its must she be brought, 
VThose IfUt shift proves z petticoat? 



An Englishman visiting Vol- 
taire, at Ferney, was asked by him 
where lie had come from ? The tra- 
veller answered, be had been for 
some time with Haller.— " What 
a great man !*' exclaimed Voltaire 
immediately. " He is a great 
|x»et— great naturalist— great phi- 
losopher^— in short, almost a uni- 
versal genius."—" That is very li- 
beral iu you/' answered the travel- 
ler, *' for M. Haller expresses by 
no means the same opinion of you.** 
— " Jlasr replied Voltaire, *' we 
are, very likely, both of us mis- 
taken:' 



Ak ale-house wit was much dis- 
pleased at the shortness of his pipe, 
and complained of this circum- 
stance to hi» host; the landlord 
excused himself, by saying, that his 
pipes were of ** the last make.*'— - 
*' Yes,'* rejoined the wag, " I 
perceive you have not bought them 
loH^r 

BibmomanicRage!— A singu- 
lar story Is extant, about the pur- 



chase of the late Duke of Rox- 
burgh's copy of the first edition of 
Sbakspeare. A friend was bidding 
for him iu the sale -room, his Grace 
had retired to one end of the room, 
coolly to view the result of the 
contest The biddings rose quickly 
to twenty guinea^-^a great sum ia 
former times, when eoUecHi^ was 
not quite so fashionable as it has 
since become ; but the Duke was 
not to be daunted or defeated. A 
slip of paper was handed to him, 
upon which the impropriety of 
continuing the contest was sug- 
gested. His Grace took out hta 
pencil ; and with a coolness which 
would have done credit to Prince 
Eugene, he wrote on the same 
slip of paper, by way of reply— 



* * Lay on, MacduiF! 
^nd d d be he who first cries ^ hold^ 
enough.'** 

Such a spirit was irresistible, it 
bore down all opposition, and was 
worthy of the cause in which it 
was engaged. The Duke was of 
course declared victor, and he 
marched off triumphantly, with the 
volume under his arm ! 



A sboemaker*8 shop was broke 
open this month, and robbed of a 
considerable number of hoots. The 
depredators in this case may fairly 
be called /ree-6oofori. 

A GENTLEMAN at Liverpool, ha- 
ranguing the multitude, spoke of 
the services of Mr. Brougham in 
obtaining the revocation of the 
Orders in Council, and of Mr. 
Creevey in his great endeavours to 
obtain a free trade to the East In- 
dies : — ** Free trade !** roare<l an 
independent, staggering voter— 
" d — n your iret trade— give us 
free drink /" 



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SmORTIJVG IJVTBLLIGJEJVCB. 



Tl^E are informed, that the cele- x)tbers. The Two-year-old Stakes 

braced produce horse, Gofum- of 150gs. were won hy Mr. Keen's 

-pus, ( Si re of Beverley^ Catton, Un- Sancho colt, heating four others^ 

cle Toby, and Otteriugton, tlie win- and the 15gs. Stakes by Mr. Price's 

ner of the last St. Leger's) will Uncle Dick. 

4ierve mares the ensuing season at . ■ ■ 

Mr. W. Hnrsley's, Low Catton, At Monmouth Races, on Tues- 

tiear York, at lOgs. each, and baU- day, the 13tb inst. the Plate of 5<M« 

a-guinea the groom. — Beverley, was won by Mr. Munsey*s Meteo- 

Catton, Uncle Toby, and Otter- rina, beating Morgiaua and Bereft- 

iogUin, all winners, are the only ford. The Handicap SweepstaVe« 

ones of Golumpus's get that have of l60gs. was also ^on by Mr. 

hetu trained. Munsey*s Meteorina, beating three 



Mr. Morton, of Crovdon, Sur- 



others. 



rey, has sold Teddy the Grinder to As a proof of the estimation In 

Jjord Bgremont, for 500gs. which the breed of horses^ deno- 

' minated Suffolk Punches, are held, 

Mrs. Henry Douglas is chosen at Sir Rol>ert Harland's sale, on 

tb bv Lady Patroness ; the Marquis the 6th instant, at Wherstead, Suf-i. 

of Qneeosberry, President ; and folk, thirteen horses averaged 321. 

Mr. Menteacb, of Closeburn; Vice- Ss. each ; sixteen others, 621. 4s. ^d^ 

President, of the Dumfries and four others, 8ll. each ; and £ve 

Galloway Haot for the ensuing others sold for 700I. or 1401. each! 

year. three three-year-old colts sold for 

■ ■ ■ 159I. or 531. each; two two-years' 

Thb following Members of the for 5ll. each; six year-olds £or 

Caledonian Hunt were present at 441. each ^ and what is still more 

the late Meeting :-—Mar(]iii$ of out of the way, six suckerels ave« 

Queensherry, Preses; Sir D. H. raged the sum of 37l* lt)s.8d.eadi. 

Blair, Bart. Treasurer^ J. H. Blair, What ought these to be worth at 

£sq. of Dunokey, and Alexander five years old ? 

lioswell, Esq. of Aucbinleck, 

Counsellors ; Wm. Hagart, Esq. Loro Derby's stag-hounds are 

Secretary ; £arl of Eglinton, Sir afrived at the Oaks, in Surrey, and 

H. D. Hamilton, Bart. Sir J. H. have commenced the season, much 

Maxwell, Bart. R. A. Oswald, Esq. to the gratification of the sporting 

of Auchincruive^ Colonel Blair, of gentlemen in that neighbourhood 

Blair, Capt. J. Oswald, and Robert — ^The Surrey fox-hounds, and the 

Wallace, Esq. of Kelly. pack of H. Jolliffe, Esq. have like- 

' wise thrown off several times this 

At Holly well Races, the Mos- month, 

tyn Stakes of 240gs. were won by _ 

l(r. Price's Ambo^ h«atiQg six A sporting gentleman makes 

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the following remarks on the Royal 
Hant:-— " His Majesty's stag- 
hounds are returnee^ to Ascol^ after 
recciviDg some benefit ixoni their 
•ea-»Uie excursion, as far as relates 
to the disorder under which they 
k«4 sp long and so dreadfully suf- 
fered i but as to the lameness so 
jnec^liar to this pack, it b scarcely 
in the power of medicine to eradi- 
cate it. The cause o( this lame- 
ness is attributed to the soil and si- 
tiiaitioD of the kennel, than which 
so choice in England can he worse. 
The hounds look in excellent coq- 
ditiivi, in coat and general appear- 
ance, and will be able to meet the 
stfMoa with, as good ^ prospect of 
aport, as they have for any season 
past; which is saying a great deal, 
considering the extreme ill state in 
-which evefy thing about the place 
-^as ioiud, which it is fair ^.say, 
was owing io9.Fe to the limited cif- 
cnmstanc^ of th^ h4int, than tb« 
ill manfgemeQi of an iudividuftL 
]Mfuch is expected, undoubtedly, by 
Ihr^porting genliet^n in the neigh- 
Vnirhood, at to seeing a sudden. and 
MipecJor management in the whole. 
Thia is expecting too much, wei;e 
'the bnnthman superior to aU, in hia 
lii;^; hut it may he hoped, with 
aop^ degree ol c<^nftilenpe, that 
many old errors will, be done away, 
anil if he can a^ivise hifi assistants 
to act in concert with him, we shall 
not again see the hounds bursting 
after a deer cart, or running a mile 
«r two beyond a scent. The horses, 
which arc just sent down, oppectf 
to be suited for their woi^K. They 
will l>egtn by the end of this mpnth, 
in a bye-way tp enter trlie young 
^?V and a fqw th«y h^^ve from 
other pack^.*^ 

► * * • 

The Finden fox-bounds (Sussesi) 
commenced the season this month 



in high condition, and will bant 
three times a week regularly. 

FaOM A CORRESFON0SKT. -— 

*' Hey den, Sept. 2g, — ^Though game 
is unusually scarce this season, 1 
have the pleasiire to. haiyl you ao 
account of the sport Lf>ul Kings- 
ton had yesterday* His Lordsbij^ 
surprised, all (he genllemen preseai 
by bagging in so shor|' a time 9fi 
two hoius, eleven brace and a half 
of partridges, f9^f bra^e of hares^ 
and o^e pair of rabbits, withoi&C 
missing onice. Noiwithstianding 
his Lordship is coi^idered a» de:^ 
terous shot, it is supposed tkaA this 
success was in soma degree occar 
sinned by his using thfi Ifovsyth 
Patent Lock." 



As Mo. Hopkins, v^s, shooting 
in Cholsey Field, oq t]^ 3d; of Sep- 
tember, his well-known dog Tippoo 
found a hAre,. aA whivh he shot but 
BBJssed^ and she ran to. a co^er-; 
but whij&t aififin charging his.gmv 
Mr. H. per^ceivQ'l something mpve 
in the stubble, which proved ta \ift 
another h^are he ha4 by aiQcident 
killed in her form on firing at the 
first ; singular to. relate, the killed 
hare had a bhize of ^htta dowa 
her face, which Mj:. H. caused t^ 
be stt>fied» ancl haa ii( io. hi^ po6>- 
session. 



" Wjs, hear, that a f«w* <J«ysi» 
since, as a, gen.tlenMin of Old Sato 
Farm, Lancing, w«as shooting over 
his groimds, he sprung a covey of 
five partridges, wbeoi jus| aa he 
piijled the trigger, to, fire at ona 
of the birds, theoth^i; four wheeled^ 
and c^me exactlyiaaline with.^ 
bird first singled out: the cona^ 
qnence was, four o£ the five, at a 
single shpt, came whaalfog- fo.' the 



THE SPORttNQ MA^AKIKB. 



H 



A PtGBOH Clttby simUar to that 
«et«bli8liefl at the Old Hats, has 
beea tbrmed at Softball, Middle- 
aex, Tbe meailMerB insist of some 
of the first shots in fiii|;l*nd, and 
«B the last meeting day^ the ave^ 
rage kiUiug waa 18 Irotn WU 



■*^Ma* 



« Tna under^mentioned Gefteral 
Qrder» relative to garoe^ (iBS heen 
communicated to the troops <)oar- 
tered in this country : — '' The Ge- 
aend Officers, commanding dis- 
tricts and brigades^ are directed by 
the Comraaodec in Chief to adopt 
•rery |)ossible precaution for the 
preservation of game, and to for^ 
bid the encroachments of officers 
and soldiers on manors 5 or their 
interference with the manorial 
rights of indiridnals ; and also to 
secure the farmers from any incon- 
venience and damage which might 
arise from officers nr soldieia tres- 
passing over their grounds^ 

Ok the l^tb nit. a curious bet 
(between Captain R. ami Mr. B. 
<>f his Majesty's ship Duncan) was 
dflcided on a level piece. of ground 
at Walmer, near Deal, to the 
amusement of some hundreds of 
spectators. The former had back- 
ed his brother officer (Lieut. M.) 
to carry the Master-at-Arms of 
the ship (of the enormous weight 
of three hundred pounds) a dis- 
tance of £fty yards^ before the 
Surgeon could run a hundred. The 
great difficulty lay in properly 
placing this lump of atdmal fat, 
in a riding position^ on the hark of 
bis uufortanate cairierj and bet- 
ting at this moment ran two and 
three to one against his perform- 
ance. — However, a saddle was at 
last coutrived, and the monster 
(with the assistance of a chair,) 
Amounted. The dropping a white 
aaadkerchief by the fair hand of 



the accomplisbed Emily, Was t^ 
signal for Starting. A dead sileikoi^ 
and much interest, appeared to p^^ 
vade etery cmintebance fot tli4 
short Space of two minutes, i^hitt 
a sudden and a general buM ofa|[»b 
plause prodaitned Mr. M. witiuer. 
Mr. M. a (i¥e feet sik inebes iH 
height, t>f light form, ftnd <H)lf 
weighing himself two humktd iUld 
sixteen [x>unds. 



* II 



^DasTttAMtsMr.-^-^On Wedues^ 
dsy, the 31st ult. a young tnAOj 
lately from Cheltenham, of th^ 
nameofBerdmnre, engaged for ik 
wager of 101. to go on foot firotti 
St. Jobn*s-street, West Smitbfieid, 
to Barnet and baek agdini in t#^ 
hours and forty minutes, the Whol^ 
distance being twenty-two miles ; 
he started at twelve o*elock, took 
refreshment On his arrival At Bar« 
net, and won his wager» by eaiy 
one minute and a half> much falJk 
gued. 

Th<i match between Carter, the 
Lancashire pugilist, and t\mci, 
which had exciteil miieh curiosity^ 
was decided on Friday, the 2d id«« 
stant, on dunbury Common. Tbt 
match was, to perform iWO milet 
in ten minutes and a half. Without, 
previous training. He did the first 
mile under five minutes and a hatf^ 
when he mended his pace at the 
rate of winning, but became much 
distressed in performing the second 
quarter of the second mile; his 
game however, recovered him, and 
he ran in with better speed than 
before bad attended him ; but he 
nevertheless lost the match by fifty-' 
two seconds. 

On Saturday, the 26tb ult, an 
excellent foot-race, which was at- 
tended by the amateurs of the turf, 
took place round the Linen Hall, 
at Belfast, lietween an old man oJF 
seventy years of age, carrying a 

lad 



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kd weififhing idsf. /ib. and a yooog 
■lan^ for twenty guineas ; the old 
man went round the Hall during 
the time (be young mau went 
twice round — the old man per* 
formed the race in four minutes, 
which is a quarter of a mile, and 
beat bis antagonist by a few yards. 
Betting at hrst even, but when 
about half round, three to two in 
favour of the old man. 

A tradesman of Salisbury, nn- 
dertook to walk fifty miles in twelve 
Lours and a half, on Friday, the 
25th alt. He started from Gould's 
Hut, 00 Salisbury ^ Plain, (two 
miles out and in), at one o'clock 
m the morning, and performed 
the task, with apparent ease, one 
^ur and eighteen minuteb within 
' the given tinie.^— What i» a little 
coctraordinary, the same person, by 
vay of trial, walked the whole of 
tlie above ground in about twelve 
bour8,only four nights before the 
above undertaking. 

A match against time, which 
bad excited much interest, was de- 
cifled on Thursday, the 15th inst. 
at Portsmouth, by William Lock, 
a young man who undertook to run 
« mile in five minutes, for 501. 
which hard task he performed in 
§out minutes and fifty-eight 8e« 
conds. 

Jdr. Wesley, a pedestrian of ce- 
lebrity, on Tuesday, the 20tb in- 
atant, undertook, for a wager of 
fifty guineas, to go half a mile in 
two minutes and ten seconds, on 
the road from Hounslow to Hamp- 
ton. He accomplished the task in 
two seconds within the given time. 

A CBiexLBT •match was played at 



Leedi, in Kent, on the 14th tfmf 
15th of September, between tbe 
gentlemen of the Leeds and Hawk-^ 
hurst Clubs I when Hawkhurst won 
by one band in and sixty-seven 
nint.— The succeeding week the 
return match was played at Ten* 
terden, and again won by Hawk- 
burst, by 145 runs. — Hawkhurst 
challenges to play any Club in the 
county next Summer^ 

Pugilism.— Lately, at Ditton 
Marsh Fair, near Westbury, Wilts, 
two labouring men having quar- 
relled, they proceeded to blows ; 
when one of them received a hit 
on the neck, fell, and immediately^ 
expired. 

A match betwixt PowsR, * 
first-rate pugilist, and Carter, n 
Lancashire lad of prombing qua* 
litications, was made on Thursday 
evening, the 15tb instant, cm thr 
following terms :— -They deposit 
201. each, to fight for lOOl. on 
Monday, November I6. The mo- 
ney to be made good on the 2d' 
November, or the deposit to !>• 
foifeited. A stand-up fight in aL 
twenty feet rope-ring# and to' be 
within twenty-five miles of Lon<» 
don. 



On Thursday, the 24th nit. as 
the Kev. Mr. Talbot, Curate of 
Tisbury, was riding a spirited horse, 
it leafked over a stone bridge and 
pitched upon all fours in the water, 
about ten feet beneath, with the 
rider upon his back. This gen- 
tleman^s escape was niiiaculous, 
neither the rider nor the horse be-^ 
ing materially hurt. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 

Ova Corretpondent S k, forgot t6 pay the pottage of his letter.— The Pinntini^ 

icfbred to, is in the hands of the artist he mentions ; bat we believe the owner is not 
disMted to permit an Epgraving to be taken from it. 

POETRY. 



THE SPORTING MAGAZINE.' 



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FOE T R Y. 



THE HIGH COURT OF DIANA. 



GLORY AT HOME. 

Addressed to Henry Austen, Esq. ^n- 
Chester College, 



To the Editor of the Sporting Magasune. 



SIR, 



'J^HE insertion of the following 
'*' javenile composition will much 
gratify the author, who remains. Sir, 
yoQT consunt Reader, and sincere well 
wisher, Nicholas Lek Torrb. 



What is glory, what is fame? 
-What is splendid rank or name ? 
Fame they call an empty story, 
Tell me, Austen ! what is Glory : 
Not the soldier's high*boTn merit. 

Sent to plock the blood-red laurel. 
Not the Sailor's daring spirit. 

Bred 'midst hostile strife and quarrel. 
To fame like this the Country Squire, 
Fond of home, does ne'er aspire. 

Away, ye bloody scenes of strife ! 
I sing the joys of country life. 
Where still the sporting tribe inherit, 
A Soldier*s or a Sailor's spirit. 
Spirit, o'er the proud steed bending, 

To pursue the Reynard Foe ; 
Hcav'n, and Earth's wide covers rending. 

With Yoicks, away ! and Tally-hO 1 
To fame like this the Country Squire, 
In the Chase does oft aspire. 

Hark away ! from wood to wood. 
Pants each heart for Reynard's blood : 
Reynard breaks upon the sight. 
Sounding horns proclaim his flight. 
Now, my Lads, give loose to pleaf uie. 

Fears and anguish cast away ; 
Yonder flies the huntsman's treasure, 

Happy he, who's lint to day ! 
Rapturous joy like this be mine. 
And well I know, my friend, 'tis thine. 

Vol. XLL— No. 341. 



Hark away ! from steep to steep. 
Mad with joy, the coursers sweeps 
Mad with ioy, with hope elate. 
Fearless top the five-barr'd gate. 
Vain the streamlet's foaming eddy. 

Vain the fence or ditch so wide, 
O'er the ditch and quickset ready, 

Yoicks! my Lads, your Coaners 
guide. 
Glorious skill like this be mine. 
And well I know, my friend, 'tis thine. 

Hark forward ! forward ! hark away ! 
Reynard's now the huntsman's prey. 
See he pants, he gasps for breath. 
Louder peals proclaim his death ! 
Ended now the giatetul labour. 

Sportsman to thy home return! 
Envy not the Soldier's sabre. 

Nor for distant glory bum ! 
Austen ! this is noble glory, 
Which thy friend hath set before thee. 

*' Hark forward ! forward ! hark away I** 
Be our death-song every day ! 
Be it too the sportsman's merit. 
Daily Reynard's brush t' inherit. 
Friends with envious eyes sha,ll greet us. 

When our jovial sport is done ; 
Friends with ardour flock to meet us. 

And admire the trophies won. 
Austen ! this is noble glory. 
This, with joy, I set before thee. 

N, L. TORRE. 
Winches. Coll.OcL 12, 1819. 



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THE PLEASURES OF COURSING. 

]^0 more let wine, no longer hounds^ 

Engage the tuneful Nine . 
I chant a nobler theme by far. 
And choose the coone for jaine. 

F Th« 



M 



TUB SFCMRfnNe WLGAZmE. 



Tbe well-breathed greyhound on the 
lawn. 

Had long ago been sung. 
But dreading lest his verse slMuldfeiU 

Each Poet held his tongue. 

The hunter who pursues his game. 
From earliest dawn 'till noon. 

Laughs at the courser's rapid joy. 
Because 'tis o'er too soon* 

Let those who think tli»GDun» \$ diill» 
Attend where beauties khine; 

Where Toumshend, Peyton, giace the 
plain, 
And make the sport divine. 

Whether on ffeedjig'i wtWrktpi fields^ 
Or Hammoruts wide domain. 

Or at the stouter hares on Smecp 
ffitchf C^ice^os Lanrotitidix^ 

Or on. Sl 9ne h en ga *» bonnding tur ^ 
Which e'en with NorfUkvies, 

Or over Attkj^t welKstodced headKy 
Tbe mUtkhre gicyhou«d fliesi. 

By those, bow taoch misnamed the 
Course, 

Who beat each hedtt with care. 
Well plflAs'd if in the live-long d9^. 

They start one haf less hare ! 

No I let mc view the higl^tfiine^ dogs. 

In Vale's ttnerring hnad, 
Loos'd in an instant ftofa the 

And akimatng o'er the land^ 

With Orfoxd, of the coohinK train 

Deservedly the pride ; 
Whilst friends areund bim gladly throng. 

By wealth, by sport allied. 

Theft may yon neel each eiatea ymi. 

And oft renew tb« sport ; 
Long ma^ the evcou^; laj«gl)» md talt» 

Addflmwuf to th^perU 

Hach take a gless, tbe bumper fill. 

No imant here be found ; 
Prink, that the course may Aourish Still, 

And let the toast go round. 

0«^. 94, isn. M.W. 



In one short hour beheld the biasing ftae* 
Apoilo sink, and bhakespeare cease to 
reign. 

Te who behdid, O I sights admired and 

mourned. 
Whose radiance mock'd the ruin it a- 

domed! * 

Xhrott^ clouds 6f fire, the massy frag- 
ments riven, 
like Ibrael's pillar, chase the night from 

heave*. 
Saw the king conmn of revolving flames 
Shake its red shadow o'er the startled 

Thames; 
While thousands, thronged around the 

burning dome. 
Shrank back appalled, and trembled for 

their home; 
As glared the volumed blaze, and ghastly 

skocie 
The skies, with Hghmiags awfiil as thehr 

own; 
Till b]ackenizi|£ asbes and the lonely waB 
Usurped the Muse's reahn, and mark'd 

herfaU; 
8ey«««haU tUi new^noriBvasfirkiePllev 
JU^^d, where once rose the s^ighiuest in 

oar isle, 
Kapw the same favour which tbe (psmet 

knew» 
A shrine for Shakespeaie— vrorthy him 

andyoic/ 



ADDRESS, 

h^ Mr, JEButim on the Opewmg 
the new DruiyLane Theatre, 



if 



WRITTEN BY LOEO BTRON. 



tN one dread night our city saw, and 
* sighed^ ' 

Bow'd to the dust, the Drama's tower of 
pride; 



Tes, it shidi be^Tha magic of thati 
Defies t^ scythe o€ tfane, tlie Utttk of 

Swne, 
On the. same spot s^ cooiecrates the 

scene, 
And bids the Drama he where she hMh 

been .*— 
This febric's birth attests the potent ^11, 
Indulge our honest pride, and say, Horn 

tscff/ 
As soars tiiis fiHve to emulate the last. 
Oh ! might we draw our omens from the 

past. 
Some hour propitious to our prajetsj 

may Doast 
Names such as hallow stOl the dome we 

lest. 
On Diwy first your MdoBs' duiOiog art 
O'efwhefaned the asndcat, stonned tlie 

itOToesthevfe; 
OnDniry, Garrick's latest buelspfew: 
Here your last tears retiring Bosdus drew. 
Sighed his last thax^, and wept his last 

adieu. 
But stin fisr living wk the wrmte taoy 

Uoom 
That only epufe ihclr edaon o'er th^tenb. 
Such Druvy claimed aad fiaimt^' ifior 

you refuse 
One tribute to revive bis slumbering muse ) 
With garlands deck your owxi Menander's 

head; 
Nor hoard your honours idly for the dead ! 



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Detr are the tee whidi made oar ao- 
" Dabbrigia, 
Cre Garrick fled or Brinsley cease to 



Heirs to their labours, Hke all hi;h4>oni 

heira. 
Vain of o.vr aacestiy as they of theirs. 
While thus Hemembrance borrows Bnir 

quo's glassy 
To claim the sceptred shadowv as they 

pass, 
And we the mirror hold, where fanaged 

shine 
Immortal aioies^ emblazooed on onr line, 
Fause*— ere their feebler offspring you con- 

deiziQ) 
Beflec( hovr bard the tash toilral them I 

Friends of the Sltf».-co whom both 

Flaycn and Flays 
Mbk sue alike for pardon, or for praise. 
Whose judj^ng voice and eye alone direct 
Thebo^nditiM power to cherish or reject. 
If c*er frivoUty has led to fame. 
And made us bluah that you forbore to 

blame. 
If e'er the sinkine Stage could condescend 
To soothe the sidtlr taste it dare not mend, 
All past reproacD may present scenes 

Mfute, 
And censure, wiady loud, be justly 

ma«e>— 
Oh ! since your fiat stamps the Drama's 

laws. 
Forbear to mock us with mi^laccd ap- 

plause : 
9o pride shall doubly nenre the actor*s 

powers. 
And Reason's Toioe be echo'd back by 

ours! 
Thia greethig o'eryiitbe ancient rule 

obeyd, 
tht Urania's homstge by her herald' paid, 
Receive our welcome too,—- whose every 

tone 
Springs from our hearti, and fid& would 

winyoitfown. 
Thecurtain rise»— may our stage imfold 
Scenes not unworthy Drury s days of 

old!— • 
Britons our judses. Nature for our guide, 
Still may we please, long— long may you 

presLoe. 

SAILOE TOM ; 

tyho hMdcneetfeto sleep. 
And mm io watch tAe keg I 

J^ Captain sent his men ashore. 
At Cuba, to procure fresh ^tf>n 

Of water, and of wood ; 
They had a Uule keg of rum. 
And, when into the grecnrwood cope 

n^ tried if it was sood. 



Each Tor drank off has sparkling {^ass. 
Old mess-ma«es toasted, or some lass. 

In Plymouth left behind ; 
The jest and merry sf>ng went ronad^ 
And fSnts of tea-man-shxp piofiound. 

Till they were ali-^half-blind / 

At length to work all handa did fell. 
But Tom— »appoioted by them all 

I'd stay and tvatch the rum ; 
His orders were, ** if there appear 
An Indian band this couise to steer,, 

Sittg'^nUf and we shall oome." 

Tom had a pewrl upon one eye^ 
By nature formed so very higti. 

He ne'er could get itclos'd ; 
Tho* centtnel, he soon got drunk. 
And in d^^ep sleep by 6bmn;i£sunk, 

To danger was expos'd. 

An Indian chief, who skulk'd at bandf 
Gave an attendant strict comntand 

To go and steol the mm ; 
He reach'd the spot, gaa'd in his &ce—- 
And liast* d otS with quicker pace 

Than he before had come* 

He cried--" Strange whitB'mtan I have 
found ! 

He never mov'd tho' I danc'd round. 
And jump'd like a wild stag; 

But when I in his t^e did peep, 

I found he had—- one ef^e to deep. 
And Qne io wtiAch the keg ! / / 
JdaccUffield. EHINUS, 



Ml '■ I i' . ii' .1" '.m;' 'r ag 



»« ^ ■ I H ■» n 



Fbr the Sporting Magaxine^ 
HUNTING SONG. 



Le DiabU emporte V Amour, 

"IITHY sing ye the praises of Fanny or 
Sue? 
Their wit and their beauty soon 
passes ; 
Or ftet ye for ever that Sally's untrue ? 

We toil in Uieir springes like asses. 
Leave love and its troubles, and rise with 

the day. 
To join in tlw music of Haik, hark 
away! 

The prattle of love aaay be very fine 
staff. 
And beauty may &dU have her day ; 
The ao^uish of love loay he pleasing 
eooughj 

To 



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Ta those who will bow to its svtnf ; 
Wvit for prattling* whjT give me Old £cho't 

reply, 
To Yoicks * Tally-ho ! and the hounds in 
full cry. 

Their wit, and its train of %agaries, you 

sing. 
That thrills through our bosom t 

spell, 
Bkit the Tally-ho cry more pleasure can 

bring. 
When it rattles through dingle and 

dell. 
But when they're together, crashing the 

glade. 
Oh t where is the thrilling love's witche> 

ries made ! 

I^r beauty^ come trot ye to yonder goose 
side. 
When Sol through his curtain is peep- 
ing. 
And see how they spread on so gallant 

and wide. 
Some topping the brake, and some 

creeping : 
And for truths hark as Maiden begins her 

faint cry ; 
And ta Maiden have at him, rings out the 

reply. 

Then leave ye such idling, such boy- 
feeling stuff, * 
Let beauty o'er fools have her day, 
iVe known of love's pleasures and follies 
enough. 
And broke all the bonds of her sway : 
And music for me is the £cho*s reply. 
To Yoicks ! Taliy-ho ! and the hounds in 
full cry. 



Tho' down its side the blood did flo^^ 
The ciuel boys no pity shew — 
Vainly the creature strove to go. 

And scream 'd, and croak'd in vain. 

Poor bird ! so like some high-born wight, 
vyiose day of glory's turn'd to night. 
Whom sated Envy conies to slight, 

O'crjpyed to sec him low. 
I view in thee and in thy pain. 
The wounded soldier on the plain. 
Writhing among the mangled slain, 

With ruthless foes around. 

The artful gunner, lurching round. 
Thee, from thy warning comrades found j 
He gave the unsuspected wound— 

Thou'lt soar on high no more : 
Nor friendship's joys must thou e'er 

prove. 
Nor those of freedom and of love !— 
But ah ! ray pity thou dost move. 

Misfortune's child. 

Poor bird of jetty plume, adieu ; 
Each sufTeriiig mortal that I view 
I'll turn a tender thought on you, 

Tho' thou art cold and low ; 
And when- life's thorny paths shall brin^ 
Those worst of woes that inly sting, 
I'll often mind thy broken wing — 

Poor wounded Crow! 



A DECLARATION OF LOVE. 



Jlumhly inscribed to Joseph fT-Uw-rikp 

Esq, 



THE WOUNDED CROW. 



Jk S "cross the meads I took my way, 
(Where late the sons of toil made 
• hay), 
Bright s^one the hot meridian day. 
And herds had fled the plain : 
1 chanc'dto meet some thoughtless boys, 
Whom wanton sport too oft employs, 
Exulting in the guilty joys 
Which give to others pain. 

A sooty Crow, ill-fated thing ! 
Had got a wounded broken wing. 
And closely round they fbim'da ring^ 
T' infltct*more giadous pain ; 



Q Joseph ! thee I love. 

All other youths above ; 

O, pity me ! 
Thy charms have pierc'd my heart ; 
From thine eyes came Cupid's dart} 

I die for thee ! 

Too sure has been his aim, * 
I'm parch'd up by his flame. 

Like shrivell'd pease ! 
With thee the power remains 
To rid me of my pains j 

O, give me ease ! 

Then come unto my arms^ 
Thou man of many charms ; 

Sweet, lovely Joe ! 
What raptures we will prove. 
Our hearts brim-full of love. 

Oh! Ohl Oh! Oh! 

MART. 



THE 



SPORTING MAGAZINE. 



VOL. XLI. 



NOVEMBER, I812. 



No. CCXLIL 



CONTENTS. 

Itorses in a Stortn Page 45 

On the Colour of the Devonshire, or Flying 

Childers.... * 45 

BatUe betwiyt Power and Carter 46 

Anecdotes of the celebrated Rabelais 49 

Playing at Hazard 40 

Convictions for Breaches of the Came Laws., si 

Remarks on the Royal Hunt 53 

.Courts Martial on Officers of the First Surrey 

Militia.. . 56 

More Actions against the Berkeley Hunt.. . 67 
Further Particulars 0/ the Life of Dick Eng. 

land 58 

Successful Treatment of Hydrophobia 62 

On the Gbdolphin Arabian, and Osmer the 

Veterinary Writer. .. flS 

Swindling in Worses 66 

Turkish Manners and Customs 67 

A Complete List of the Winning Horses in 

1812 « . . 69 



SwaflTham Coursing Meeting .Page 7s 

"New Farce, called •' Love, Law, and Physic" 76 

Sporting Dispute in Northamptonshire 77 

A Drop Leap ... ». 79 

Warwick November Races '. ... 7$ 

FEAST OF WIT 79 

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE 8S 

To Correspondents . 8$. 



POETRY. 

The Miser and tl\e Blackbird 89 

Past Pleasures 90 

On the Flight of a tame Hawk 91 

Air sung by Mr. Broadhurst, in " Love, Law, 

and Physic" 91 

Invocation in favour of Animals 9i 

The Poet's Address to his Writing.Desk ... 9ft 
On the Death of Cooke, the Comedian.. . . 99 

The Irish Ghost 9^ 

RACING CALENDAR 21 



I. ^ highly-finished and beaviifui Engraving of Horszs in a Storm. 

11. A Drop Lsap, an Etching, 



HORSES IN A STORM. 



/^ATTLE in a btorni is not aa 
unfrequent subject with paint- 
ers of animals and landscapes } hiiC 
horses in a storm, as here depicted, 
is rather a new idea. Indeed it is 
wholly so with the artist from 
whose design the engraving is co- 
pied. To the joint efforts of Mr. 
Coopei and Mr. Scott, we are in- 
debted for this plate, and which 
we trust will not fail to meet a 
favourable reception from those of 
our readers who have a taste for 
unaffected representations of nature 
and the fine arts. — ^We coogratulate 
the public upon the rising abilities 
of Mr. Cooper, Mr. Scott^ in his 
line, remains unrivalled. 



ON THfi 

COLOUR OF THE DEVONSHIRE, 

OR 

FLYING CHILDERS. 



To the Editor of the Sporting Ma* 
gazine, 

SIR, 

VOUR Correspondent from New-* 
market (A Constant Reader), 
remarks that, in my History of the 
Horse, I have represented Flying 
Childers as a chesuut, instead of a 
bay horse, as he appears in all his 
portraits. I am. aware that his 
colour has been generally supposed 
bay -J but there is a portrait, which 
I believe to be original, and which 
represents him as a chesaut ; and 
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bay Cbilders^ foaled in 1726, seems 
to have been so denominated by 
way of distinction. 1 have always 
tinderstood that, according to tra- 
dition, which, however, bn tliese 
occasions, seems uncertain enough, 
Bartlett's Chihiers, full lirother to 
the Devonshire, was likewise a 
chesput liorse. The matter re- 
mains at present in obscurity, but 
may very probably be cleared up, 
by the accidental lighting upon 
some old record of the facr. Our 
earty racing atinals are involved in 
an bbscurify, the direct antipodes 
to the clear, circumstantial, and 
ample accounts of latter times; 
and I liave hitherto laboured with- 
out success, to throw any light or 
certainty upon the traditionary 
barbarity committed by the faraoHS 
Tregortw^U Frampton, upon his 
favourite liorse l>ragon. 

After all, Itook it for granted 
formerly, as well as your Corres- 
pondent, that both Chiklers and 
his sire the Darrley Arabian, were 
bays. Of the latter, I have at dLf- 
lerent periods taken considerable 
pains to obtain some information, 
but to no purpose. 1 cannot learn 
iven, whether or not a portrait of 
him was ever taken; and as I re- 
ceived no answer to my enquiries 
on that head, about two or three 
years since, from the present pos- 
sessor of ■ Park, at Butter- 
erarab, near York, I must, in good 
lta'annei*s conclude, that my letter 
iiiiscarried. — 1 remain. Sir, your 
inost bumble and obedient servant^ 

John Lawrence. 

* Sofhers Tottm, Nov. 8. 



BATTLE BETWIXT POWEH^AND 
• CARTER. 



*TreiB T>attle betwixt these two 
pngflists, which had for seve- 



ral weeks been the gencfal topic of 
conversation in the gymnastic 
world, took place as stipulated in 
the articles, on Monday, the 1 6th 
of November, near the town of 
Rickmanswortb, Herts. Thither, 
thousands had repaired on the 
Sunday night, many of whom ar- 
riving late were obliged to content 
themselves with such i^epote and 
shelter as barns, stables, and other 
out-door covering, would a^rd. — 
An eye-witness, in burlesque of 
the frothy productions of a hero of 
another Rescript ion, thus bulletmed 
the preparations ma^e for the 
combat: — " At twelve o'clock re- 
cotinoitring parties reported to 
Field-Martial Jackson the choicest 
ground for combat, and the 1^^ 
gions were put in motion $ those 
of Mottingham by Marshal Cribb^ 
General Clarke, and their suite j 
aufl those from Uxbridge under Ge- 
nerals Gregson, Bitton, and Tom 
Jones. The heroes arrived in a 
valley, fortified by hills, impregna- 
ble either to beak or trap. The 
sun broke through the clouds for a 
moment, when the Field-Marshal 
announced the order of the day, 
which was to prq)are for milling, 
' — ' Millers,* said he, * this is the 
sun of Rickmanswortb ! behave 
as you have done at Moulsey Hurst,, 
at Coombcwood^ at Worm\vood 
Scrubs, and at Wilsdon-Green. 
Behold the field of battle ! see the 
fopes ! behave as the brave Tom 
Johnson did with Eyan on this same 
ground, that posterity may speak' 
of you this day with exultation-— 
he was at the battle of Rickmans- 
wortb ! Victory will give you good 
winter quarters, but don't burn the 
town. The wet has set in, but the 
weather it nearly the same here as 
at-London in November." 

The battle commenced at one 
o*clobk in a 20-feet roped ringj 

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Crlbb and Clarke seconds to Power,, for wind>, and ap^ared weak. €ar-. 

and Bttton and Jones seconds to ter planted a good leh-handed 

Carter, who was the average fa^ blow on tb^ bead, and one sligbtly^^ 

vourite at about 11 to 10. Power qn the body, with which Power 

is considered the best fighter of the went down. This was considered 

day; Carter, a poweiful Lan« by some as decisive of the bets oa 

cashire man, gave promise of be- the first knock-down blow, bat it 

coming at the head of the fighting was rather a fail from weakness*, 

list, in bis first battle with Boone. Carter had decisively the best of 

The match was foi* a stake of 200 theronnd. 

guineas. 5. The combatants bit a coimter 

THE BATTLE. (together), but the bloiv of Power 

Round 1 . Both fait and were bad most effect on tlus nose. Carter 

stopped. Carter hit his antagonist had bled from repeated filps since 

slightly /on the body, which was the second round. They closed^ 

smartly returaed on the face, and Power was thrown, 
which drew first blood. The men 6, In this round the odds rose 

closed; and exchanged some job* to the height of 5- to 2. on Carter* 

bing hits, when Power received a He put in a dreadful blow, on the 

slight throw. Even betting. e;|^e .of his .antagonist, which hit 

2. Power planted a smart body him several feet away, apd distort'^ 
bit, and his adversary stopped his ed bis whole frairte. Power, vas 
left hand at the head, ai^d returned too game tj> go.dpwn, and aft^r a 
at the body, in which he suc«;eeded. short interval of sparring, U> reco« 
Power planted a blow on the nose, ver from stupefaction* he retuirned^ 
but Carter again returned the hit, aiad cofmnenjcl^d a most Spirited 
and threw his adversaiy with ease, rally, when the men stobd and bit 
which shewed most strength, and until both were exhausted, and tba 
made him 6 and 7 to 4 the favoii- round was altogether much in fa^ 
rite. vour of Carter, notwithstandibg 

3. The object of Power was to Powi^rh^d spbiled xaost of his fea* 
bring hi& adversary to his own tures ; the blood ran in torrents^ 
weight by good fightings but this and Power at length went dowa 
round satisfied the Judges in the with a . slight hit 

ring that Carter bad much im- 7* 3oth wece Cf^ea^motttbed. at 

proved^ and ^ from his ' superior breathing, but f ower commenced 

weight and length. Power, with another rally with unexaolpled 

all his exquisite science, had much gaiety. Carter made several stops^ 

difficulty in getting at him. Car- seemingly rather to avoid a rally > 

ter made a good pairy of a forci- but the ofiensive manner of the 

ble left-handed attempt at the head, other compelled him to do so. Af-^ 

and he returned it on the body of ter some smart hitting, in which 

Power, and got away. A smart Power had some advantage. Power 

rally took place, in which much received a most- dangerous cross» 

courage was displayed, but it ended buttock. 

in favour of Carter, who threw 8. Carter had recovered second 

bis man—- 2 to 1 on Carter.' wind, and he had the advantage in 

4. Much science was displayed an obstinate raUy; his head was« 
in this round, but Carter shewed it however, much hit about, and 
^ost in parrying. Power sparrcsd Power bad ojae ^ye bit bluad. A 

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rally, as courageous as ever was 
seco in any battle, followed. They 
excbangcd many hits, knocked 
each other away soveral times, 
and returned with the fierceness of 
lions to the rally : Power at length 
went down upon the ropes, with 
his adversary upon h\vA. 
. Q, This roupd was most favour- 
able to Carter, who stopped him, 
got his head under his arm, and 
iihbcd him, hut without much ef- 
fect, as Power held his right hand 
until he bad no more strength to do 
so, when he fastened upon the ear, 
which induced Carter to rid himself 
of him, and on releasing his head. 
Power fell in a sort of way which 
induced the partisans of Carter to 
suspect he would not be able to ap- 
pear again. 

10. Carter, from the weakness 
of his opponent, bored him to all 
parts of the ring, and Power fell 
from weakness. 

i 1 . Power seemed to be recover- 
ing himself, and after this round 
he progressively won the fight by 
superior fighting. Carter made 
some good stops, but was not effi- 
cient with the right hand. A de- 
termined rally commenced, which 
ended in both parties going down 
together. Carter undermost. 

l'2. Power placed two good hits, 
left and right, on the body and 
})ead^ and had none the Worst of 
the fall by closing. 

13; In this round betting became 
nearly as at setting- to. Carter had 
heconic weak ; arid Power had par- 
tially recovered, sufficient to avail 
himself of his fine science, by hit- 
ting and breaking away. Several 
courageous rallies took place in the 
fiubse'querit rounds, but Power suc- 
ceeded so well in the system he 
jrdopied, that having kept his man 
constantly bleeding, he went in, and 
l^ught him at bcist^ s^nd beat him 



progressively by two or three Wts 
on the head and body in each: 
round, until thirty-nine rounds 
had been fought in one hour and 
twenty minutes. Carter main- 
tained the most sanguinary con- 
flict with €ourage equal to any 
man who ever sHpped, until b« 
was too exhausted to feel his legs, 
or to move his head off' his second's 
shoulders. In this situation Greg- 
son conveyed him to a chaise, and 
from thence to a gentiemmi's house 
in the neighbourhood. Both the 
men were dreadliilly beat, hut the 
injury sustained by Power was not 
to be compared to that of Carter. 
On victory being announced, Cribb 
took the winner in his arms, and 
bore him off in triumph. 

REMARKS. 

The previous statement will give 
the reader an idea of this coura • 
geous combat. Power is certainly 
the best twelve-stone boxer of the 
day, and he exhibited throughout 
the most determined bravery agains>t 
a formidable man, as courageous 
as ever contended in a ring. It 
was by extraordinary fightiqg that 
Power could get at him, and he 
had the Herculean task of bringing 
a man, who is not without science, 
and of superior weight, down to 
the pitch at which science would 
avail the cause. Carter should 
have gone in, after his success in 
the eighth round. On the contrary, 
when his adversary was weak, he 
was kept off, sparring with a man 
who could always out-fight him. 
Carter may he considered as very 
uoar the top of the fighting list. 
A more dreadful battle has not 
been witnessed since that at New- 
market! 

Lancaster and Marten, a Jew, 

A scientific and resolute battle 
was n^xt fought bQtwsJi^ these mea; 

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wiiicli was vron by the former in 
thirty-five minutes. Tliey were 
nearly equal heights^ arid admirable 
fighters. Six and seven to four on 
the wiffner. 

Fuller and Jay, 
A third battle, for a subscription 
purse,' was fought betwixt these 
men, the former of whom is a very 
promising pugilist, and a pupil of 
Richmomrs, and the latter a can- 
didate from Leicestershire, of 14 
stone, and hercnlean strength. He 
ivasso tremendous a bitter, and so 
much su|)erior in weight, that Ful- 
ler, who is a professor of iirst-rate 
science, was taken away against 
iiis coiisent, after fighting fifteen 
minutes. — No science of Fuller's 
weight could withstand Jay*s cou- 
rage and power. — 5 to 4 on Fuller. 
•Another battle was fought be- 
twixt Smith and Ballard — they had 
-Hmus^cl themselves once before, and 
it excited neither interest nor bet- 
ting, except to the parties con- 
<Jenied, 

The day w^as itnpropitioifs ; and 
the distance from town, the wet- 
ness of the night, and the badness 
of the road, left many stragglers, 
knocked-up horses, and broken ve- 
hicles, in every town and village 
betweeii I/ondon and the seat of 
action. There has not been so 
much good fighting on one day 
since the matches at Banbury many 
years ago. 

Power arrired in town the day 
alter the battle -, but his antiftgo- 
vist remained at Rickmans worth 
till the Saturday, when he retunied 
to town nearly recovered. Carter 
attribotes the loss of bis battle to 
being badly seconded: he states, 
that when out of wind, handker- 
chiefs were kept at his mouth, that 
iie was kept wet through his small 
clothes, and he was prevented going 
^ when he vaoied to do 4q, 



ANECDOTES OF THE Cf£lJ5% 

BRATED RABELAIS. 

^fl£N the Cardinal du Belief 
was sent Ambassador to Rome« 
he took with him the celebrated 
Rabelais, who lived with him as li 
physician. One day the Cardinal 
went to pay a visit to the Pop^ 
^nd took with him the Doctor^ 
who, when he saw the Cardinal 
fail on his knees, and kiss the 
Po|)e's toe, made a precipitate re- 
treat out of the room. When hit 
JGminence returned home^ he was 
very angry with his physician for 
this conduct; on wnich the hu- 
mourist is said to have made the 
following reply : — " Why, my 
Lord (MonseigneurJ , what was I 
todo ? Seeing that you, who tire 
my master, and a Cardinal, andl 
besides a great Prince^ ki&ied the 
old gentleman's toe, what was I to 
expect, who, in comparison with 
you, am but a scurvy fellow, . It 
wcHiid not have become me to kist 
where you didr I expected nothing 
hotter, I assure you, than to be 
obliged to kiss the old gentleman*! 
posteriors, and rather than dolhat« 
I resolved to take French leave.** 
It is said that this stoi-y was told to 
his Holiness, who, not understand-^ 
ing such kind of pleasantry, or* 
dered Rabelais to leave Italy ; so 
that the consequences were Dot 
very pleasant to the Doctor, who 
at Lyons fouml himself in sad 
plight, and without a sous. Not 
knowing how to g^t to Paris, he 
made up a couple oi packets, and 
ivrote on one, ^' Poison for the 
King,^* and on the other, /' Poi- 
son for the Queen:" in conse- 
quence of which he was conveyed 
to Paris with the greatest cars 
and expedition, as a state prisoner, 
by the Lieutenant Criminal of Ly- 
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him when faebroiigbt Rabelais to Rabelais, who^ to get an andlenc* 

Courts and, as is asserted, was of the Chancellor, is said to faafe 

never paid his expences. This made use of a singular expedient } 

•tory has indeed been told of seve- He first spoke Latin to the $wiss» 

ral persons, but the original, be- or porter, who, not understanding 

yaad doubt, belongs to Rabelais, him, went to ietch a person who 

This extraordinary humourist was understood Latin : to thb person 

lirst of all a moak, -afterwards a he addressed himself in Greek ; and 

physician, and died parish priest at a Grecian being found, he spoke to 

Mindon in 1^3i, «ged JO, His him in Hebrew : this kind of learn* 

gaiety nev^T Ibrsook him to the ed botheration having been prac* 

M8t, and be was upwards of <>0 tised on several persons, by means 

when ke put the finishing hand to of different languages, it created 

liis Pantagrue], a work of such le- such confusion in the ^otei,that the 

Tity,4iot to give it a harsher name, Chancellor desired to see the per* 

•s to be hardly excusable in a yoirog son who occasioned it, which be 

jnauAt 20 !— -The Cardinal du BeU would not have done had his name 

ley, mentioned above, was ex^* been announced to him, being 

tremely desirous of living in this much prejudiced against the CoU 

world as long as possible, and lege at Mont|ielter, to which, how* 

therefore put^his health imder the ever, the gieat learning of lUibelais 

care of Rabekia, whose skill as a reconciled him ut last. It is re- 

]ihyaician waa in great repute.--*- ported that the robe, or gown, o# 

One, ilaya voaated lamprey being Rabelais, was preserved at Mont- 

fltt /before the Cardinal, who was pellier, and that every doetor wore 

1^ fond of iu the physician it at his initiation: when an igno^ 

touched the plate with his wand, rant pretender to the medical sci* 

Nipeating tfa« words durte ti^es*- ence wa^ introduced to be Hcen- 

iumis, wbich ao frighttnetl hk tiated, the wits used to say, heire 

Smioenoe, that he would not touch eamei the asa in the UMs $kin. 
« hit. of it. Shortly afterwards. 



however, ha found that the Doctor 
wasiregaliog biraself on thit very 

lamprey th^t bad been sent from PLAYING AT HAZARD. 

his table as oDwbolesome.--" How — — . 

eomeft this/* said, the CardinfH couaT of king's bench, no* 

^' did not you say that this was vembbr 11. 

bard, of digestion?'*—*' You are _ 

mistaken, MonseigneuTt** replied Gi^rge v. Stanley. 

the Doctor, " it was the. plate I TillS was a motion to set aside 

touched with my wand, and not a warrant of attorney, and the 

the fish/'-— Rabelais was Professor judgment which had been followed 

of Physic in ehe ^ University of up on it. 

MontpelUer. The Chancellor du Mr, Seijeant Best stated, that 

Peat caused the privileges of that the defendant was a Scholar of 

University to be alioKshed, by an King's College, Oxford; andwbea 

Arret du Paileoent, in order to fa«- coming to town on one occasion 

vour the like establishment at Pa- with, a fellow-student, they atopped 

ris 'f but they were recovered again at the Star and garter, at Rich?* 

by. means of tht. soUcications of mond. After^ iinntii when they 

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h»d got heated with wine» a Cap* of the peace« for iha North Riding 

iaiii Wallis, and a friend of hi8> of that Couoty/ in the p^Mlty o€ 

.named Twisdale> were ushered ii^o five pounds> for kiUing game os 

the room, and they immediately the manors helongtog to. Mrs« 

{proposed cards. They played for Cholmky, qf Howshams likewisft 

some time, when^ Captain VValiis Peter Wilkinson, of HoiTioghaiii^ 

proposed to play at hazard, which hrother to . the above, who was 

* Stanley declared his ignorance of. shooting with him* He was ako 

However, he was soon to he taught, convicted in the ..penalty of fivQ 

and they played till four or five pounds, being unqualified. 

o'clock in the morning, by which . On Wednesday, the 4th iastaiit*. 

time Stanley had lost 300l. ta J. Holies was brought before the 

Wallis, and his companion het\veea Sitting Magistrate, at Bow'-ftreet, 

3001 and 4001. Soon after this charged with trespassing on tbm 

Stanley went down to Brighton/ premises or groundsof the £ari o£ 

whither Captain Wallis followed jei'sey, at Osterley Park, Middfcs* 

hiiq, and threatened to post him in sex, with an intent to catch gaBMv 

all the coftee-houses and libraries George Wood,, garoekcffper to the 

of that place, if he did not pay Noble Earl, stated,, that so loi^ 

him theuaouey. So situated, Mr. since as May last, he . fouad- tlMtf 

Stanley gave him three short bills, prisoner on the gfoonda of bia 

for lOOL each, which he was un- master, and then warned* hinoC 

able to pay when they became due. For sometime past h^ had foinicl 

He was, in consequence, waited wires set to catch hacea; andwith^* 

upon by a person named Oliver, in these few days* hci found wire* 

the clerk of Captain Wallis*s soli- or snares where five hases had hteH 

citor, who prevailed on him to give caught; and the destrnetioa^ m6 

two new bills, and consequently, a the game had gottasach an alann<« 

wanant of attorney for the amount, pitch, that he employed atDUBihee 

besides 17I. for his own expences* of labouring men ta iae continoaUy 

The judgment on the warrant was on the watch* On the* Monday,, 

«oon followed up, and Stanley was the ptisoiier firaa seen getting over 

thrown into prison. The present the paling, and making toward* 

notion was made that the judg- the wires, heating the corer8> &c# 

Blent on the warrant might be set One of the laboureia ran to give 

aside, and the warrant itself given him notice, and the others watchefl 

liip to be cancelled. the prisoner* They pursued and 

Rule to shew cause granted. secured him. The witness pro« 

dubed a bag, which the prisoner 

*;. >■' . ^:' '.t I ... 't .u ii ..T.^ had under his arm, which had the' 

blood of a hare in the inside, with 

CONVICTIONS FOB BREACHES some hare flack or wool ako. The 

OF THE GAME LAWS. prisoner said he was a genticmaa'a 

• — . coachman ont of employ, and had- 

£*\N Monday, the 26th of October, been so for six viFeeks : chiring that 

Anthony Wilkinson, of Whit* time he had heen Aivisg on. hw 

well, in the county of York, game« friends. He was ordered to find 

keeper to Sir B. Graham, Barti bail for his good behaviour for %}x 

was convicted by. the Rev. T. R. months, himself in 40L and two 

Heed, one of his Majesty's justices si^reties in 20l* eaeh^ a2>d to giv» 

twenty- 



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twent3r*-four bonrs notice of bail; 
m tke nfeautiitie be was cooiBiitted 
to tbe Uoi^e of Correction* 
. On Friday evening, tbe 6tb tn- 
afeanr, about seven o'clock, as a 
party of tbe Bow-ttreet f)acrole 
were poiBsiug over Bdirs-}x>nd 
DomiBon, Ntwington^ tbey met a 
wan witb a sack on bis back. 
Tbey stopped bim to ascertain tbe 
contents, wfaicb proved to be four 
kaoes; Tbey took bim into cus* 
-^dy, and conveyed him to Bow- 
street Office^ where be underwent 
an examination. Tbe account tbe 
nan gave of himself and the hares, 
was, that he lived at Nortbalh 
Bear Bell-bar, on this side of Bat- 
field. That he had bought the 
kares of a man for 18s. 6i\. and a 
fot of beer, and was bringing them 
to London for thepnrpose of mak- 
ing presents; and was not sensible 
that be was committing any of- 
|ence.-^*On reference to several 
Acts of Parliament respecting game, 
ibe case was deemed to come with- 
in tbe con»trnction of exposing the 
Iteres for sale, it being contraiy to 
tiie Act for him- to have them in 
\h possesBron, he not being a qua- 
lified man, and not carrying tbe 
kares for hire. He was therefore 
convicted in tbe penalty of 5l, 
Tbe man pleaded that he bad a 
iffl^ and four small children, and 
bis inability to pay ; bnt Mr. Read 
informed him the law was positive^ 
The man said he would pay the 51. 
in ten day^. 

Lfately, three men were convicted 
¥efore tbe Magistrates, in tbe full 
penalty of Si. each, for fishing in 
the River Severn, near Gloucester, 
with tbe intent to destroy the sal- 
mon, during the fence months. 

An Innkeeper was lately (on the 
information of a Rev. Gentleman 
«f Berkshire), fined 5L for cours- 
Rg a hare, which he immediately 



pttid> and then preferred an infers 
ination against the complainant^ 
for having shot a pheasant before 
tbe commencement of tbe present 
season, which subjected the Re- 
vereiKl informer to a penalty of 50L 
and costs. 

At Winchester, on tbe 14tli in- 
stant, William Wilton was con- 
victed in ttie mitigated penalty of 
ten ponnds, for making use of en- 
gines to destroy game, on a Sun- 
day, in the manor of Stanbridge, 
tbe property of John Fifield, Esq, 
— Lieutenant Lester was also con- 
victed of sporting on tlie manor of 
William Sloane, Esq. he not being 
qualified to kill game, and fined 
five pounds. 



Judgment passed in the Court of 
K'mg*s Bench, for a Sporting ^«- 
sauU, 

The Kiitg v. Picketing.— Ob 
Monday, November 23, Mr. Top- 
ping moved for the Judgment of 
the Court against tbe defendant 
in this case, he having been con- 
victed at tbe last Assizes for Salis- 
bury, before Mr. Baron Graham, 
of assaultini( a gentleman of tbe 
name of Aid ridge, using to him at 
tbe same time most provoking and 
ungentleman-like language. — ^Thc 
plaintifl^ it appeared, was a tpiali- 
fied person, who had been shooting 
on his sister's estate, when he was 
attacked by the defendant, who 
rented the adjoining manor. Se- 
veral ungentleman-like expressions 
vi'cre used by the defendant twvards 
the prosecutor,' who, it was^ also 
proved, had raised his gun towards 
his person, in a threatening posi- 
tion. — The sentence of tbe Court 
upon the defendant was, that be 
do pay a fine of 5l. and be (lis-* 
charged. 

THE 



THli' SPORTING UAdAZnfE. Sik 

*rHE ROYAL HUNT. Prince Regent order also a stud 

■ for these poor fellows, he would 

^0 the Editor of the Sporti/^ Md^ show his consiiieration for the 

gazine, . Hunt to good purpose. How is it 

SIR, possible, I would ask anyone, can 

T r ijs with ^ome pleasure that we these men keep two hunters upoa 

foresters -saw some remarks in the confined salary allowed to 

your last Magazine on the Royal them ? Less than two horses canv. 

Hunt, which we have some reason not do the work, and these must 

to wish well, and more so since not have indifierent qualifications! 

this new esta))lishment has taken the man must live in some degree 

place. of respect, pay each tax, even foe, 

I have known, most intimately, his horses, and all this must bet 

this Hunt for many years, and done with 1301. per year. I should 

have had both leisure and oppor- not be surprised to see some of theni 

tunity of making remarks on its mounted on their forest ponies, or 

many defects, the most glaring of for want of even that a.neddy, be-* 

which have always rested with one fore the season is half expired, 
individual, and rather illiberally so. Nothing is worth doing, if it la 

as will he seen in time. There not worth doing we|l. Why should 

were always many defects peculiar- it then be put in the power of S(er<!« 

]y felt in this pack, which I be- vants to half do their duty, wheni 

lieve impossible to amend, even by by adding another half, perhaps, 

this Huntsman, and which were they would be enabled to do their 

more nearly connected with the employer justice, and themselves 

whole system than a slight ob- credit. They were once consider- ' 

server can understand. The lame- ed as part of the embellishment of 

ness which you allude to in your the Hunt, to add consequence and 

last Magazine, as difficult to re- pomp to the whole ^ but the change 

.move, has always attended these is sad now. This splendid poverty^i^ 

bounds, and I am perfectly con- like Hunt has long been a ridicule 

vinced it arises solely from the upon sport in Windsor Forest, and 

soil and situation of the kennel, having been once so nobly en-*' 

^nd it is simply a severe attack of dowed, unfortunately for them, the 

rheumatism, which may seize the same endowment lasts, whilst it$ 

bound upon an instant in the chase, honour, as far as appearance goes^ 

or going to the ground. This will has long been lost 3 for 'tis near a 

not be in the power of Sharpe to century since any change has takea 

remove. place of any consequence. How 

But with all this pother about is it possible that all the pageantry 

liounds and huntsmen, there is a and activity necessary for 1812, 

greater evil attending this esta- can be supported with the means 

blishment than any yet pointed out, of 1712, when the worcl yeomaii 

and which will always cripple the bore its proper signification? They 

inrhole till one complete reform have now of necessity sunk from 

takes place in the department I am their application, and the term no 

about to notice ; I mean the Yeo- more belongs to them than it does 

man Prickers. The new stud for to the whipper-in of a parcel of 

the Huntsman is very proper, and fox-hounds, whose comforts and 

fvould his Royal Highness the adyantages are far abpve the situa- 
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tiort of Hiesc meti. lit tnay be 
ittid, tbcy have but tmjHoytaent" 
for nine months in tb« yeaV, and 
that then- clnty catfs 6n them i)«t 
twice a week; this \s true, hot 
theu during the whole of that time 
their atttintiou must be occupitd 
w^th their hotscs, and after a month 
of liberty jpast, *th necessary to* 
prepare those horses again for the 
enstttng season j in fact, their 
cf^^msaS they now stand, are so 
reasonable and' so absolutely ne- 
<^saTy,- if any itnprovenient is 
Aftned tit upon the whole, that I 
ft*el eoTivirided !iis Royal Highness 
"^t>tikl tnliVj it into his gracious 
consideration, werte it properly laid 
before him. For as this huntsman 
liBs taerrt and opportunity to rec- 
tify crt'ors iti the kennel, s6 should 
t%ose ct>Wnected with the hounds 
tmly, bfe able to second his exei*-' 
'tioYis to Ills wish and their credit. 

A FORESTEX, 



On TiJesilay^ Ae lOrh tnstant, 
a fine deer ivas turned out at South- 
liill Park, before liis Majesty's 
Hounds, as a commericemetit for 
the sieason. The dtfer was given 
about thirty-five ' minutes law, 
which is a longer time than usual, 
and whicli ' is conceived to answer 
a double purpose, first saving the 
absence of two yeomen prickiers to 
guide and keep him on, and se- 
condly, to givdi hounds and horses 
a better chance in the first burst f 
'^s the quicker the hotinds are laid 
on after the deer has left the cart, 
the stronger the scent, consequent- 
ly a great cause of this being the 
most distressing part of the whole 
chase. The next change is also 
better. 

The ill-contrived method oF lay- 
ing the hounds on has long l)een 
iieprecated by sportsmen) for by 



custom they knew the t»rt> sad 
as soon as let go they would dask 
to it and push on at a gi*eat rate 
in a straight line for a considerable 
distance, which baffled the effort* 
of the attendants lo get them 
right. At present the cart is taken 
away, and the hounds draw the 
heath for some time > then unsus^ 
pccting any trick they cross th* 
scent, and therefore get quickly 
and steadily settled to it. This 
has still greater advantages in view„ 
as it is hoped the company wilt 
keep with the hotmds at starting, 
and not pursue the deer for a miie 
or more by the way of getting for-i 
ward to be in at a first check. It 
is expressly pointed out to the 
riders of horses for the King'» 
hundred, that unless they start 
with the hounds, they \viU not be 
entitled to receive a ticket, whick 
implies ^ request that geutleftiea 
should also observe this rule. Awf 
pecuKar stile or manner of bunting 
when running or in the chase could 
hardly be seen. 

The aim of all huntsmen is thef 
same. A fox huntsman wishes to 
kill, and a stag huntsman can wish 
but to take $ bat in obtaining that 
'end his feeling for the business of 
his pack, and his skill in making^ 
bis casts, constitute the chief merit 
and difference between one man 
and another. The new Huntsman 
bears evident superiority over many 
in both respects > first, being an 
excellent rider and good weighty 
he is able tt> be up and see his busi-< 
ness, and possessing an admirable 
voice, his cheer enlivens the hound 
and the dhase, (of no little advan^ 
tage to both). His skill ' was 
shown in a few instances to prove 
that he is a mastef of this difficndt 
branch. 

The day was very bad,, a^id the 
deer took over the worst country, 

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fHMftible for a weak pack and new « f^rh^mg dufing the wiiok, 
leader, and after a very sharp run or a great part, of the period b^- 
of two hours, he took refuge among tween the ut^ day of January, and 
his old companions in the Great the loth of September, iSi^, aeg- 
Park, where it was thought fit to lected to pay his company himaeS; 
leave him in consequence of the in obedience to his Majesty's order*; 
lateness ot the hour. and for having allpwed the ^ife, or 
The hounds look exiremely well, the reputed wife of Se/jieapt-Ma>r 
vaA did their business in good AUingham, to pay the mqo of hi^ 
«tyle, considering the late disadr company, and provide them yiUi 
vantages under which they mani- necessaries, by which means' tjie 
festly; labaured. Sharpe was on a comforts and interests of tlie soldiew 
fine horse, which seemed to carry ^ygre not attended to, the t^en 
him welh The yeomen prickers charged more th?n they ought to 
were much better mounted than have been for necessaries, and sub- 
can be expected. Beckf^rd says, jected to various impositions; such 
that often a good whipper-in is pre- conduct being highly detrimental tp 
ferable to a good huntsman j were fci. Majesty 'sjservice, and to the pre- 
these seconds as good as that great judice of good ord^r and military 
disciple of Nimrod could wish, discipline." 

their means would ill accord with Upon which charge the Court 

their abilities; and though many came to the following decisJLon : 

are ready enough to condemn then* . « The. Court are of opinion, 

c» OTowe, not one it seems with any ^h^t the prisoner. Captain John 

chance of benefiting them, can be Ford, is guilty of the charge pre- 

found to step forward in their bcr ferred against him, in breach of, the 

half. Aiticles of War^. but taking into 

__ _ their giost serious con^deration a|l 

"^ ' ' '" ' ■ '"^ the circumstances detailed in evi- 
COURTS MARTIAL. dence, and the very high and bo- 
__. nourable charjicter giveiji himbyhi^ 
POPY of a Letter addi^ssed by Colonel £|nd other Officers, dq sen- 
^ his Royal Highness the Com- tence him to be reprimanded, ia 
mander in Chief, to General the Eari «uch a manner as his Royal High- 
©f Chatham, K. G. or General Of- «^w the Prince Regent, in the name 
ficer commanding in the Eastern ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^ °^ ^>« Majesty, 
District, dated ^^Y ^ pleased to direct ; and far- 
Horse GuiurcU. ther, to be suspended from rank an^ 
^fiy Lord,-— Having laid before pay for the space of one calendar 
the Prince Regept the proceedings month." 

of a General Court Martial, held at I am to acquaint your Lordship, 

Chelmsford, on the 1 8th of October* that under all the circumstances of 

<8ii^ and continued by adjourn- the case, his Royal Highness was 

ments to the 15 th of November ioU pleased, in the name and on the be- 

lowing, for the trial of Captain John half of his Majesty, to approve the 

Ford, of the First Royal SurreyjRe- finding of guilty, and to confirm s^ 

gvnent of Militia, who was arraigned much of the sentence of the Court 

imder the under-mentioned charge^ as adjudges the prisoner. Captain 

viz. ;^9*« Ford> to be reprimanded and sus^ 

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pendcd for ose month, from rank codmgs. Captain Ford shall be wo. 

^ J pay hibited from jommg or damg duty 

I am,' at the same time, to ac- with the Jim Royal Surrey Regi- 

quaint your Lordship, that upon a ment of Mihtia. 

careful consideration of the whole Your Lordship will acqoamt me 

evidence, as detaUed on the face of with the dayupon which the sentence 

the proceedings, the guilt of the if made known to the prisoner, as 

prisoner, as found by the Court, fro™ that day the sus^nsion from 

appeared to the Prince Regent to rank and pay wdl take effect.— I am, 

have been so fully established as to **^* _. ' . _ 

have demanded a sentence more (Signed) Fkedbrick, 

adequate to the nature of an offences Commander m Uxxh 

involving the first and most impor- =—= 

tant duties of every officer in the ^ ^^ ^ ^^f^^j. addressed by his 

service, of the rank of Captain j^^^^^ Highness the Commander 

Ford ; and as no evidence to gene- ^^^ ^;,^r ^^ General the Earl ot 

ral good character can m propriety Chatham, K. G. or General Offi- 

be offered m extenuation of such ^^ commanding m the Eastern 

dereliction of duty to the country, District, dated 

and to the seryice in particular, as Horse Guards. ' 

appears to have attended the guilt My Lord— Having laicj before 

of the prisoner, whose admission of the Prince Regent the proceedings 

^rror in not paying his own com- of^*a General Court-Martial, held 

pany, contrary to the standing or- at Chelmsford, on the 30th of Dc- 

ders bf the army, by which a system cembcr, 181 1> and continued by 

of gross Opposition was admitted on adjournments to the lOth of Jana- 

the part of Mrs. Allingham, to ary, 1812, for the trial of Captain 

Vhom that duty is proved to have Richard Frizell, of the 1st Royal 

been most improperly entrusted, Surrey Militia, who was arraigned 

vould appear of itself to have been upon the iinder-mentioDedcbftrgeSji 

sufficient to point out to the Court, viz. : 

the ill-judged application of lenity Ist.—- '^ For disobedience of hii 

to the nature of the case brought Majesty's orders, in having, during 

tinder theiranvestigation. the whole or part of the periodt 

Under these circumstances, the between the 1st September, 1810, 

Prince Regent ' considered it to be and 1st of September, 1^1], neg- 

due to the discipline and paramount lected to pay bis Company himself^i 

interests of the service, that the ex- and for allowing Serjeant Joha 

presuon of his Royal Highneflis's Medley and the wife, or reputed 

marked displeasure should be con- Wife, of the said Serjeant Jobri 

veyed to the officers of the Court Medley, io do so, by which means. 

Martial for this very insufficient sen<* the comfort and interest of the 

tence, upon their own finding of^guik soldiers were not aittended to,^ the 

against the prisoner. men were charged more than they 

I am further commanded to order, ought to have been for necessaries, 

that until a general investigation or thain such necessaries were 

shail be instituted into the system worth, and the soltliers were sub- 

of a corps, under which such prac- jected to various impositions j such 

tices could be tolerated . as those conduct being highly detrimental 

which .appear on the face of the pro- to his Majesty's service, and to the 

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IJTejmriceofgootlbrderand military TWO MORE ACTIONS AGAINST 
<lisaipHne;' THE BERKELEY HUNT. 

2d. — *' For highly irregular and - 

unmiUtary conduct, in having, dur- QN the 2d November, a writ of 
ing tbe wbol« or part of the periods inquiry was executed before the 

"between the 24th of February and Sheriff of the county of Hertford, 
6th of June, I8O9, drawn pay (or in a cause in -which the Earl of Essex 
i»4lowed his Pay Serjeant to do so), was plaintiff, and Mr. Richard Tay- 
fbr private Joseph Wood, late of lor,of Bull's Lands, near Rickmana* 
his Company in the 1st Royal worth, was defendant. 
Surrey Militia, although the said The Attorney for Lord Essex 
Joseph Wood died on or about the stated to the Jury, that this action 
22d February, I8O9.'* bad been brought by his Lordsh^ 

Uj>on which charges the Court to recover damages for a trespass 
came to the following decision: committed by the defendant, at 

■ " The Court having taken into Cashiobury, w'hile hunting with tl» 
4heir serious consideration the evi- Berkeley hounds; that though hit 
dence produced by the prosecutor Lordship had brought penal actiom 
and prisoner, as well as the defence against different members of the 
And reply, are of opinion, thfiit the Hunt, in some of which he had 
prisoner. Captain Richard Frizeil, Consented to take nominal damages^ 
Ist Royal Surrey Militia, is Guilty and though he had by every means. 
of the charges preferred against in his power notified that he would 
bim, in breach of the Articles of not permit any person who was fol- 
War, and do therefore sentence lowing the hounds to trespass upon 
him to be dismissed the service ; his lands, still that he was subject to 
but in consequence of the good frequent depredations, and that his 
character given him hy.his Colonel, Lordship was determined to take 
jind other Officers of the regiment, such steps as would effectually pre- 
«s well as the documents produced vent a repetition of these offences. 
before the Court, beg leave to re- Two witnesses were called, who 
commend him to the clemency of proved that they saw the defendant 
lits Royal Highness the Prince Re- ride over a field of clover which 
gent." is in his Lordship's occupation, after 

I am to acquaint your Lordship, he had been warned n*bt to do so. 
that his Royal Highness was The defendant's Attorney, in ad- 
pleased, in the name and on the be- dressing the Jury, admitted the tres- 
balf of his Majesty^ to approve and pass, but ^stated that the defendant 
confirm the finding and sentence of had inadvertendy gone over hir 
the Court. Lordship's field; that he was in- 

Your Lordship will therefore deed ignorant of the lands which 
acquaint me with the day upon his Lordship occupied; and he 
-which the sentence is made knowq trusted, that as no actual damage had 
to the prisoner. Captain Richanl been proved to any extent, the Jury 
jFrizell, as from that day he will would not give more than is. dama^* 
cease to receive pay in his Majesty's ges. 

fervice. — I am, &c. The Attorney for his Lordship 

(Signed) Frederick, in his reply, observed, that every 

Coipmander in Chief, man while he was hunting proc^ded 

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at his peril, and that he was by the 
taw of the land bound to know and 
respect the properties of others, and 
that it had really become a question, 
whether his Lordship was to be 
allowed the undisturbed possesion 
of his own lands, or quietly to sub- 
mit that the Berkeley Hunt should 
participate with him in the enjoy- 
iDent of his estate ; and he concluded 
by hoping, that the Jury would give 
such damages as would operate as a 
warning to the persons composing 
this Hunt in future. 

After the evideoce had been 
summed up by the Sheriff, the Jury 
g;aye a verdict for lol. damages. 

There was likewise another action 
Lrought by the same plaintiff against 
Burgh Leighton, Esq. under the 
same circumstances, and the Jury, 
alsa gave a verdict for loL in this 
cause. 

' «■ »■ ■ I m il !■- Ill -I Ill II ■! ■ II - 

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PARTICULARS 

OF THE 

UFE QF THE LATE DICK ENG- 
LAND.« 



BY AN OLD CBONT. 



•pETE 



present writer, who had 
some knowledge of ]Biigliind 
n))war(ls of thirty years ago, when 
h« was in the height of his career, 
>voul(l \>e imluccd to give tt feit 
memoraHilia of his life, were it 
from the motive alone of the short 
accounts already pnbUshed, being 
obviously in the soft and hush 
style ! so entirely convenient on 
certain occasions^ and by universal 
sigreentent so much in order with 
jnauy of our historical doeu-^ 
mentik To p«t out the eyes, and 
<rripple the feet of hitjtoiy, in the 
Lui^uage of the philosopher, seen>» 



to be a matter of in&rior coocerB-- 

nient. 

Dick EugUod, otherwise, (^ap* 
tain England, for modern conrtefty 
admits Captains as well as Ebqwres, 
was, Faher »hUB fortuma, the archi- 
tect of his own fortune, and dur* 
ing some years nearly a^ the head 
of bis profession, of aventwneri 
gambler or black leg. A cbarac* 
ter with such requisites, has not 
usiuiUy been neglecte<l, either hy 
ancient or modern biography. He 
was born in Ireland, of the lowest 
parentage, and was in the capacity 
of a journeyman cahinet-ipaker, 
at Dublin, when his determination 
tirst broke forth into activity, as 
an aspirant, to better his* conditioa 
in life. In the Irish phrase, to set 
up for a J4)ntleman^ His debut, 
however, was not the most genteel 
or elevated ; since, according ta 
common report, it was tliat of a 
huUy in the boxing line, and chief- 
ly in the service of the fair sex, ta 
a certain class of which, his Her<* 
culean form and athletic constitu* 
tion, rendered him peculiarly ac* 
ceptable. He was ^aid to have ob* 
tained considerable |»ngilistie , re* 
nown at DulUin, .and to have first 
crossed the channel with views 
of rising in that profession, so 
much encouraged in this country^ 
in which he fiet an instant and 
total disappointment; his bujk 
and muscttlar powers, gre^t bovi» 
ever, being of themselves insnffi* 
cient to form the complete boxer> 
independently of eert»in quality of 
constitution ia which the -Englisl^ 
pre-eminently exceh To use w 
vulgar, but most expressive plirase^ 
Pick England, a Mih» and n coo*^ 
(pieror at Dv^^Un, was fpund iA 
London to be titr^ip^ ', his va(o«Hr 
was not malleable or HwUbriistic^ 



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moA if bis sle^ge-fist ccnild cleal the 
most formidable aod knock-down 
blows, his too sensible flesh conid 
nut hear the return of such. A 
true Irishman, like his still more 
renowned competitor, Dennis 
0*Kell3r> fingland still remained 
in the honourable service, although 
be found it necessary to relinquish 
,all fireteusions to the honours of 
the fist. 

According to early chronicles, 
lie first served as a protector, 
in. [anguage less court ly^ hut 
more -significant, as bully> at a 
hou66 of accommodation ' near 
Ciiaring Cross, From the above 
jiitroductiaa to life, and its usual 
indispensable concomitants, all- 
lours, put, whist, and the tables, 
the gradation of our candidate for 
i;entility, towards the turf, was 
easy and in course. He !§ reported 
to have passed his probationary 
term in tiiat mystical ptofession, 
with cousunimate p'udence and 
icaution, indeed his characteristics ^ 
and there is no doubt but he ulti- 
mately acquired a proficiency iu 
tlie science «f betting, and the 
profitable arrangement of his ac« 
<H>unt, e(}i«al to that of any. profes- 
sional sportsman of his time ; he 
tnoreover, by dint of sedulous, ob- 
servation, attained considerable 
i^nowledge of the race-horse, and 
the practical business of the course 9 
branches with which mere bettens 
•eldom concern themselves, holding 
the opinion generally, that, in a 
race, far more depends on the state 
of the proprietor's betting account, 
than on the qualities of the horse. 
England, however, made little use 
of his skill as a jockey^ very sel- 
dom training a horse, but content- 
ed himself with betting and haz- 
ard, in which his succfess was emi- 
ioent, and his conduct amongst the 
ut€n of rank and family with whom 



he had the opportunity to asso- 
ciate professionally, was so guard- 
ed and gentlemanly, that he was 
held in general respect. 

The period of his life BOwaU 
luded to, lies between the years 
^779 i^nti 1763» when he ke}K; a 
good house and table in London,' 
and was ])robably at tlie summit 
of his fortune. If recollection, 
serve faithfully, he tlien sported hia 
eis^a-v^, and was remarkably choice 
in the hacknies he rode, giving as 
high as eighty or ninety guineas 
for a horse, a juic^, perhaps, et^uai 
to full two hundred at the present 
time. In those days. Jack Mun« 
day's cofiee-house. Round-court^ 
in the Strand, was one of the chief 
houses of resort for men of the bet- 
ting persuasion ; and there might 
be found iu the evening, 0*Kelly, 
England, Hull, the Clarkes, Te- 
ther ington, and most others of turf 
repute, ready to lay money to aaf 
amount, or to accommodate those 
that required it with a bet on ei^ 
ther side tlie question. The com- 
pany were also habitually amused 
with the exhaustless fund of rac- 
ing anecdote, and saturnine bixan^ 
humours of old Medley. 

There was on certain days, am 
ordinary at four o'clock, .at whicb 
England shone in his most brilliant 
colours as a companion, and gene- 
rally as president. On these occa- 
sions his manner was polite an<t 
conciliating, and his conversation 
shrewd and intelligent, evincing 
that meritorious industry which 
he had used to make amentls for 
his defect of education 5 the sem- 
blance of which he often affected, 
by the introduction in conversation 
of the classical woi'ds Mars, Bac- 
chus, Apollo, Nereids, and Di7a<b. 
He was sometimes the hero of his 
own tale, and unguardedly exposed 
traits of nature iu his character^ 

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which his acijnired prnrkiice and 
eomiBiiiKl of tonij>er> (bis forte) 
ID geuei'iil, eiiabied bim to con- 
ceal. 

He reiate<l to us one evening 
eoH amore, his docking a defaulter 
in payment, and a delinquent of 
another description. A certain 
young tradesman met him, one 
evening, at a house lu Leicester* 
lields, in order to have an hour or 
two's diversion, at rattling the 
bones. England lost some three 
or four score pounds, for which he 
gave his draft upon Uankey, the 
banker. Having }>ersuaded bis an* 
tagonist to give htm his revenge, 
luck thenceforth tnrned, and Eng- 
land not only won his money back, 
but as much more in addition, and 
it being late, desired to retire, re- 
questing the other party to follow 
Ills example^ to give the cash or a 
check upon his banker- for tbemor 
sey which he had lost. This the 
tradesman resolutely refused, on 
plea that he had- been tricked, and 
that the money had not been fairly 
wofi. England once more de- 
manded the. money, which being 
vtill refused, he tripped up. the 
young matis heels, rolled Inm up 
ill the carpet, and snatcliing a case 
knife from the side-board, cut oft 
llis long hair ! close to the scalp. 
This violent action and- menacing 
attitude of England flourishing the 
knife, and not sparing the most 
deep-toned imprecations, had such 
an effect .upon the young man in 
the stillness of past three o'clock 
in the morning, that he arose, and 
with the meekness of a lamb, wrote 
H draft for the amoiint of his loss, 
took his leave very civilly, wishing 
^he Captain a good morning, and 
never mentioned the circunlstance, 
though he fre(|uently saw Eng* 
land. 
' Uis other similar: exploit was 



upon G. M. a noted tAah upon ihtt 
town, and the friend of an actress 
and singer of considerable cele-^ 
brity. Cu]>tain England it seemed 
had translated a gi:eat fat cook 
from his kitchen to a i>etter living, 
at the head of his table, at which 
Gilly M. was a frequent visitor, 
and in a few weeks, the woman 
actually eloped with I^L It was 
impossible to conceal this from 
the prying eyes and enquirers of 
England,; who yet dissembled so 
well as to persuade M. on the pre- 
tence of a trotting match, to meet 
him at an inn at Barnet, where 
having previously prepared himself 
with an excellent knife, he threw 
the amorous delinquent on the 
floor, and cuttipg off his queue 
close to his head, be then kicked 
him out of doors, with the most 
contemptuous reproaehes. Said 
England on the occasion, (in the 
hearing of the present wj-iter)— r 
f ' had it been my wife^ 1 could 
have forgiven him, hut tp, seduc» 
my w it was not to he en- 

dured.!' 

..Treatment like this, with some 
frightful additions, did the Captain 
denounce . against, a countryman, 
and, former, partner of bis, who one 
day, doubtless on some great emer- 
gency, made .sudden u^e of bis 
equal right of the joint funds in 
hank> by drawing, out the sum 
.total, with which he absconded. 

The ynfortunate aft'air of honour 
;With youQ|r Koilles, th(^ brewcf of 
•Kingston* a dissipated but. natural 
.ly tender-hearted young man, ait 
.ouce^put a period, in probal>tlity, 
•for evei'. to the projects of England 
in this country > and,: tearing away 
the uiask of worldly prudence, 
which he habitually woi^, exposed- 
his natural ferocity,, hardness of 
heart, and selfish passion, in such m 
glaring point ef view, as never 

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liRJre to be mistaken or concealed. 
The dispute Ixetween the parties 
was occasioned by a play debt of 
abotit sixty pounds, which RoUes 
bad repeatedly declined to satisfy, 
but on what grounds, or whether 
on that of suspicion, is uncertain. 
According to present recollection, 
fingland repeated his demand pub- 
licly> and with mach vociferation, 
upon the stand at Ascot, during 
the races, which was in course 
mnch resented by Rolles, who re- 
taliated, treating England's cha-. 
racter with contempt, and repre- 
senting him as a black-leg. A 
challenge from England ensued, 
which was accepted by the giddy 
and thoughtless young man, then 
in a state of half inebriation, and 
jtersisted in, notwithstanding tbe 
strenuous remonstrances of hjs 
friends, on the absurdity, indeed 
needless to any point of honour, 
of pitting bis life against that of a 
savage and unprincipled escroc, who 
was known to be constantly firing 
at a target, and wl)ose steady and 
experimental hand could snuff a 
candle with a pistol-bell. 

The circumstances of the duel, 
related immediately after the event, 
were to the following eftect:— • 
Several rounds were* fired, when a 
parley ensued, most feelingly de- 
manded by Rolles* s second, who 
represented to England tbe pro- 
bable horrors of tbe business they 
were upon ; tbe very incapable con- 
dition of Mr. Rolles to do himself 
justice, having l)een drinking two 
or three days and nights, bis hand 
ao unsteady, that far from being 
able to present a pistol with accu- 
rate aim, he could scarcely erect 
bis arm to present it at all, that 
be would even pi\y half tbe debt 
bimself, should his friend continue 
•bstinate, on condition of an im- 

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mediate end to the' bloody and 
unequal business. England's reply 
was, that he would have the whole 
of the money, or his antagonist's 
heart's bloo<l. Tbe duel proceeded, 
and Rolles's heart was perforated 
by the first shot. England left the 
ground, and tied with all speed to 
Lontlon, and being met by a friend 
at Charing- Cross, a reason was 
required for his apparent grea^ ' 
hurry? his reply was — " By Jasus, 
I have shot a man, and must be 
after making myself scarce." He' 
appeared at that time from forty- 
five to forty-seven years of agej 
that placing the above event in tbe^ 
year 1784, and it must have beei\ 
thereabouts, at his late decease he 
had attained to between seventy 
and eighty years of age. 

England reached the Continent 
in safety, and, being outlawed, 
thenceforth resided at Paris, sub-* 
sisting, as was understood, on his 
usual profession, b'ut with what 
degree of success was not known. 
On the breaking out of the Revo* 
lution in France, men had other , 
and more important avocations 
than play, which suffered as well ^ 
as other professions, or was totally 
neglected. Whether he escaped 
imprisonment, or whatever interest 
lie was enabled to meJIsk with tbe 
dominant party, under the reiga 
of teiTor, have not transpired $ but 
the report has always been cnrrent, 
that he furnished the heads of our- 
army with some valuable intelli* 
gence, in its celebrated campaign 
in Flanders ; and t^t as- a remu« 
neration, his return to this coun* 
try was smoothed, with fheaddi* 
tion of an annuity, or of a sum of 
money adequate to such a pur« 
chase. 

His appearance in court for 
the purpose of a reversal of tha 

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(mtlHwry, and bis acquittal^ of and before tbe vein was ctotisdv i0* 

tbe murder of Mr. Rolles, was ac- stretcbed out bis band for a ctt}»o^^ 

companied with very bigli and re- water^ and calmly draok it oflV 

spectable vouchers tor bis cliarac- tbongb tbe mere approach of wa* 

ter as, a gentlenian, a man of bo-> ter^ but a few minutes before^ bad 

nour, and of mild manners. He tbrown bim into convulsions.-^ 

seei)i$ to bave passed tbe remainder After tbe bleeding, be lay down on 

ot* bis life much at bis ease, chiefly a cot, fell asleep, and continued sa 

in tbe neigbbourbood of Leicester for nearly two bours. When bf^ 

Scpiarc, unnoticed, iKid perhaps awoke, the symptoms of tbe dis* 

with very little concern in his for* ease were threatening to return ^ 

mer. profession. atiotber vein was then opened, and 

. His mode of (piitting this life eight ounces more of blood wer^ 

was fortunate, ami truly enviable, taken away, which so completely 

He bad been a little indisposed subdued tbe disease, that he has- 

about a week. On tbe day of bis not had a symptom of it since, 
death his servant asked him at . " A case lately published in the 

what bour he would dine, when be Madras- papers, as successfully 

(appointed six Q'clqck. .Dinner be- treated by bleeding, mercury, and 

log about to be servt^d, be was dis- opium, led to tbe practice adopted 

covered dead on the sofa, his head in this instance, and w^hich, it is;. 

r«clineil backward. — There are l^ghly gratifying to remark, has 

many ways, beside those of honour been much more successful than- 

or utility, yi which a man may ren- even on the former occasion ; the 

«ler biiu^elf conspicuous iu life 3 be- cure in the latter case having been 

^old those which succeeded With almost instantaneously effected, and; 

this, journeyman carpenter r that by bleeding alone, without 

.. ^ the avd either of mercury or opium ;. 

"r~.~~ . ■ '^ ; ■ - for though these remedies were 

ti vr^o npunni a subsequently used, it was quite fevi- 

HYDROPHOBIA. ^^^^ ^j^^j. ^j^g disease was previ- 

■ qusly and entirely overcome by the 

''PHE foHqwUig instance of sac- bleeding/* 

cessftd treatment in a case of — 

ilydl'opbc^ia, has lately been made . About three months ago, a little^, 

public ;>— *- < . . strange, black dog, was seen to 

; A QalcuttaPaper,ofthe 15thof bite a hound, belonging to Mr. 

May* i^J^ys:'— '' On Tuesday, tbe Tanner, of Wivelsfield, near Lewes^ 

iitbJnst^Qt, .a- bbeestie, who had hut without creating any suspicion 

becfn Uitten. three weeks before in as to its consequences, until about 

tjbe leg. by a mad dog, was. carried the latter end of last mouth, when 

to ithe Native Hospital, about three die bitten hound betrayed strong 

o'clock In the. afternoon, with tbe symptoms of hydrophobia, and iu 

nymptoqis of hydrophobia sitrongly that state inflicted the dreadfui 

n(«on bim. ^e was imn^diately bite on upwards of twenty otlier 

bled to^^tbe extent of forty ounces, sporting dogs, the property of ^r. 

The symptoms of disease yielded Tanner, who, mHch to his credit, 

in suooe^ion as the blood Oowed ; caused them all to be killed, re-f 

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||ard1ess of tbe value of his bar- of Sannpgon, ciirfods however, at- 
riers^ wbich together formed a very tracted mighty little notice j aa4 
£tauacb little pack. perhaps measurements in genera), 

are chiefly to be rejjjarded on tbe 

^ score of curiosity. Thedimeniions 

of Highflyer and Gimcrack would 

form a very pixjtty contrast. 

JGODOLPHIN ARABIAN, With respect to tbe Godolphin 

AND Arabian, I ap]^rehend M. has been 

ihmertke Sporting and Veterinary Writer, rather too hasty in his conclusions, 

to embrace all the evidence in the 

To the Editor of the Sporting Mo- case. There may not be so great 

gazine, <titfiou]ty in reconciling Osmer 

' 6IR, and 8tubbs, as appears on a.cur- 

^T'HJB solicitude of M. on the sory view ; nor even, perhaps, to 
'*' above topics, so interesting to ider^tify the U!)rary portrait, and 
■every sportsman, is commendable 5 -that taken by dider of Liord Towns - 
at tbe same time, if M. should snp- hend, as appertaining to the same 
pose that he ^as a right to affix horse, at difi'erent periods of his 
any blame, he -will be convinced life. However, the question is ab- 
^t BAUst not be upon our writers, soiutely settled and at rest for 
'wbo have already made the most ever, unless we go so far as tore- 
^mple display of those subjects, ject the authenticity of the pic- 
"wbich he desires to re-introduce to Jure, taken by tbe express order of 
•public notice. He is^ perhaps, far the noble Lord above mentioned^ 
'too sanguine in his warrai>t of a from which Stubbs drew his copy, 
.rapid sale for those speculations^ The original is now at Gogmagog^ 
•or even actual admeasurements, and was given within these few 
which he wishes to see re- published, years, to Lord Francis Osborne, 
In the first place, who will umier- by the present Lord Townshend. 
take to produce any • novelty upon It has been ])re tended, that tbe 
•tbe subject 5 and granting that to crest in particular of Stiibbs's horse, 
be possible, where are they to he designed for the Godolphin Ara- 
' found, who will take tbe pains to blah, is totally out of nature, and 
read it ? During a very long ac- such as never surmounted tbe seek 
quaintance with tbe turf, I have of a living horsey an opinioi) 
known or heard of a very few which has been over-rmled by mat- 
• sportsmen, who chose to he at the ter of fact, in tbe ext^mple of a 
trouble of entering deeply, into tbe horse by Volunteer, the property 
object of their favourite pursuit, of tbe late Duke of Fort4and, 
,£itber their betting account tis all which horse J saw at Tattersall's, 
4n all, or if they take any especial and do aver^ that his crest was 
pleasure in the horse^ the know- swollen to the full extent of Stubbs's 
ledge and management oenlfres en- representation, and tbe ta]ierin[; 
tirely on the fac-totttm groom or of his neck near the bead, toge- 
jockey ; and excepting the com- ther with the head itself, strongly 
fiaon-place bead-roll of turf phrases, resembled the same parts in the 
many of our sportsmen know about Godolphin Arabian, 
^as much of horses and racing, as Osmer, as 1 recollect, was a 
^ir fii$te^f The jnMjisureineQt ^ddU*aged man, -about. the year 

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1760, wben be occupied the same boolc, obviously of the horse m ^ 

premises at the end of Oxford- rough. coudiUoDy exhibits his crest 

street, as a VeteriDary Surgeou, so High, as to be fully capable of 

which Mr. Moorcroft lately quit- that swell which it afterwards at- 

ted ; and, where he, (Osmer) as I tained -, the mottles also are seen 

h^ve heard, was shamefully aban- upon his crest and buttock. Tlie 

dooed by men whcf pretended to * curve between his neck and head 

support bim. In course, he was is plainly apparent, his ears- st^nd 

old enough to have seen the Go- wide, and his head appears coarse^ 

dolphin Arabian, perhaps soon af- .as Osmer viewed it : it h yet, air 

ter his arrival from the Ash carts of though not in the extreme, a short 

Paris, and while he was yet in a head, and tapers between th6 eyels 

low cf>ndition. IiKieed, 1 have a and the nostrils, the countenance 

portrait of him at this moment indicating rather wildness and con*' 

oefore me, a .copy probably, of one ning, with some degree of fierceness;, 

of the earliest which whs taken, than sourness, of which linea* 

It is in a book of racing portraits, ments, the countenance of Match«- 

and from its general agreement *em, the grandson of this Arabian^ 

with the ideas, which we have of strongly partook. Theheadmore* 

this horse, and from several very over, called sour or otherwise, is 

torrect represeotatioos in the same full of those symmetrical turnii 

book of horses, whieh I either which indicate high blood. Shoul* 

knew tliemselves, or in their de- ders counter, deep, extensive, and 

scendants, I biive no doubt of its declining, but with greater length 

giving a correct, although rough in the back,. than Osmer*8 account 

general. outline, of the Godolph in seems to imply. V^st substance ia 

Arabian. Of Cato, Spanking the loins, or, in the old phrase, 

Roger, and Moorcock, as drawn double reined. The muscles of hia 

in this old book, I have seen the loins, in Osmer*s phrase, appear 

moat exact copies, in their imme- excessively high, broad, and ex« 

diate descendants, and a very ex- panded; so hi^, indeed, as to give 

cellent likeness is given of Flying the appearance of his being bream 

Childess, fvom. the original draw- or ass-backed, and to make his 

ing. The Giodolphin Arabian rump higher than the point of his 

agrees exactly in essentials with fore hand, which, taken 'in view 

8^ubb8*s €opy, excepting that the with thje height of his crest, gives 

latter shews him in a highly im- a strange. and d^ire whole. His 

proved condition; a change, which head measured above, was certain-* 

i have no doubt took place in the ly large, or rather thick ; its smalU 

course of many years high keeping ness appeared as it tapered towards 

at Gogniagog. Nor am I aware the mussel, which again expanded, 

of any oYijection which can he giving considerable width of nos-p 

made to Xford To wnsemrs picture, tril. His barrel or waist was round, 

with the single reserve/ that the and his quarters shewed rather 

horse may have been possibly flat- compactness and substance, than 

tered in the representation of his either depth or length ; in fact^ 

I head, asottiore delteafe than was his whole figure indicated ra- 

realiy the case, a thiiii;t>f no great ther the Barb, or Lybiah species 

'^nrament, even were we certain of of. the horse, than the Arabian.; 

the fact. .The old portrait bx m^ >t^ qpioion. CQimteuanced by tb» 



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jf diCt, that tbe borse was imported 
into France from the coast of Bar- 
bary. Wheo Oamer talks of the 
Minted -growth of this horse, he 
must be iinderstoo<l to refer to low 
condition^ and perhaps irregularity 
of form^ whicb always results nio^e 
or less, from insufficiency of nou- 
xishment to young and greycing 
animals ; for the Godolpbin Ara* 
l)ian was of a superior size to most 
of the Arabiaos apd Barbs which 
have been imported, measuring 
about fifteen bands in height. M . 
justly remarks — " There is a par- 
ticular run of blood -wbich is given 
to the long and sour bead." — ^uch 
distinction^ however, is by no 
means pecuJiai* to the descendants 
of the Godolphud Arabian « many 
of which, beside Cade and Match- 
'em^ were beaded like him. In 
concludon, I have no doubt of the 
ftutbenttcity of Lqrd Townshend*s 
4>rigiiial, nor of the fidelity of 
Stilbbs*s copy, well aware how 
much the borse might have im- 
l)toved in his first ten 'or fifteen 
•years sojournment in this country, 
and satisfied that, the same essen- 
•tial outline is to be found in the 
«8rly and subsequent portraits 
which we have of hira. And even 
if Lord Townshend*s painter, or 
Stubbs, may have flattered him 
somewhat in plumpness and con- 
lour, the error goes bo farther- 
all the essential points are in agree- 
ment with tradition, and with the 
old figure to which I have referred. 
At any rate^ a mere solitary remark 
of Osmer, that the horse, had a 
plain or large head, can scarcely 
be thought sufficient, to overturn 
the authenticity of an actual draw- 
ings taken by a painter sent to 
^ogmagog by a nobleman, expresstr 
ly for that purpose. 

With respect to. a reprint df 
4)»mer*s pamphlet,, intituled // A 



Dissertation on Horses,** whidi 
M. seems so much to desire, such a 
jueasure would itrst of all demand 
a degree of consideration in the 
undertakers, apportioacd to theprep- - 
sent price of pa{>er and print, and 
to the probable/demand for, and 
utility, of the publication. But lb 
not M. aware that the pampUet in 
question . has either been ^actually* 
re^pubUsbed or advertised for piJU- 
lication, within the last or prebcat 
year, without apparently attracdng 
the smallest attention, from any 
quarter.? In fact, this trifle «aa 
have conferred very little reputa* 
tion upon its author^ in any point 
of view. A very Hew pages would 
be amply sufficient to contain tba 
sum of its utility,, which coi^tsts 
in a definition of the specific dil« 
ference between the northern ami 
southern horse | the . haiifouroui 
and hypothetical parts are weak 
and superficial indeed. For cx^ 
ample, bis objection to the tern 
blood, which means {ieculiar or dii* 
tinct species, and has ever been aj^ 
plied in the tame, sense to* homau 
families or species— «Wbat possible 
benefit cotild accrue from cliaBginfi^ 
such universally received terms? 
Much the same, I trow, as ba^ al-^ 
ready accrued from the new medi- 
cal nomenclature, wherein the sin>- 
ple wurd tutia, tutty, has been 
changed and extended into three 
new words.' Besides, he is by no 
means consistent, . for although he 
cautions the reader that a race- 
horse must be all foreign or tho- 
rough bred, he tells you in the same 
breath', that the peculiar racing 
quality resides intirely in the me-r 
chanical conformation of the ani* 
mat 'f which is by no means, univer-* 
Sally true, since a horse with con<* 
siderable {tortion of "Northern or 
•fiuropean blood, will often shew 
M superiority of eoi^tent in those. 

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yaris petniliarly iostrumental in a very near approach^ and ba^ sai^^ 

racings yet^ without the ability to enough at once to animate and as* 

race; ivhilst many racers are oh- sist succeeding enquirers.*' 
piously defective therein. . But A Bit op A Jocket. 

were the ca»e exactly as he states . 

it, what rational objection could 

there be to asaign blood, or pecu- SWINDLING IN HORSES. 
Iiari4y of kind or species, as the ....... 

ground of diflference in quality? AT the adjourneil Sessions for 

Osmer^s remarks on the neglect of ^-^ the City offiristol, on Tuesday, 

attention to form in the race horse, the 10th instant, the following 

•nd the preference given to fa- cause was tried : 

shionable blood, are judicious and xhe King, on the prosecution of John 
interesting. But these principles Norman, the Eider, v, John Leach 
bave been adopted and amplified Cropley.swdChsuiesEley. 
by his professed disciple Mr. Xfaw- John Norman, the younger, on 

rence, who took upon himself the the 23d of July last, was sent by 

not very pleasant task, of defending his father into Bristol market with 

the reputation of Gibson, Bracken, a chesnut mare, of 301. value, Imr 

and Osmer, from the barefaced sale; Cropleyasked him her price | 

thefts of the most impudent of all he said 35l. Cropley told him he 

pilfering compilers, whose mill- did not want a mare, but a good 

ttplied editions while they con^ horse. Just at this time £ley, the 

tinned, formed a severe satire upon other defendant, rode by five or six 

»the' information of our veterinary times on a black horse, when Crop* 

readers. Mr. Lawrence tells us, ley, pointing to it, said " that's a 

he surprised several Veterinary good horse, is it not ?*' - Normaa 

JSargeons with the intelligenee, that replied, '' the horse is very well .** 

there reaHy were such writers as Cropley said he had oftered twenty- 

CribsoB and Osmer 5 and that they nine guineas for it, if he woaM 

were afterwards eijually surprised give him back half-a-guinea.-— 

at the solid information which Cropley then pioposed that Nop- 

these writers contained. His cha- man should change the mare for 

racter of Osraer, in the first volume the horse, and he would then bay 

4>i his Treatise on Horses, as to the horse of him. This was sooa 

the chief purport of this letter, is eftected, and Norman was to ^ive 

as fallows :-»'^ His, (Osmer*s) 21. for the exchange. But having" 

|iampl)let, a§b^s good inforniatioh but one pound about him, Croplej 

on the origin of the racing breed lent him another to pay £ley. 

in this country; and had some of Cropley then proposed that tbe 

bis i-emarks been attended to, many saddles should be changed ; which, 

a thousand which has been lavish- after a little altercation, was agreed 

ed away in the studs, might have to, and on Nornuin's getting upon 

been spared. He has written with the horse, Cropley desired hini to 

considerable skill on the mechanic ride up to the Spread Eagle, in 

powers of motion in those living Redcliflf-street, where he w^ouid 

engines, called horses ; and on a\{ meet him in ten minutes. Croplej^ 

the above recited topics, if he has and £ley then went away together, 

not absolutely hit the exact me-» £ley ridiog the mare. Norman 

|Uuip of U'utb^hebas at lea»tp9iida iought in vaia for the Spread 

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ttagle^ aDd^fonnd^ upon examinipg " And it seems probable that very soon, 
the borse,tbat he had the glanders, 'HieyTl doubt^ he ever pocketed tfa« 



and was. only fit for the dogs. 
Cropley and Eley.were afterwards The Prophet has prohibited wine, 

taken at Laycock, in Wiltshire, and drunkards are, nevertheless. 

The defendants were cleanly con- not uncommon in Turkey j wine is 

victed nnder the statute of aoth. drank even during the festival of 

Geo. II. c. 24, s. 1. andjreceived Ramazam, and it has been even as- 

sentence of transportation. This, serted, that more than one Sultaa 

we believe, is the first conviction h»s used it without much scruple, 
that has taken place under thi* '[ Abstain," says Mahomet, 

statute. ** from games of chance and chess 

, . , , — jthese are the inventions of the 

A similar case to the above, oc- I>evil." The Musselmen set this 

cnned at the Stamford Fair, oa prohibition at nought, and pass 

Monday, the 9th instant, when ^V^r lives nearly in coflee-houses, 

•Mr. Ormond, of Castle Bythani, playing at chess in particular, with- 

vas completely swindled out of a out the least apprehension of a 

borse, which be had bargained to checkmate from his Satanic Ma- 

sell for 32l. to a man who said he j^sty. The Koran also proscribes 

would pav the price if Mr. O. would, music and dancing, in both of 

deliver the animal at the Sun pub- which the Turks delight j and 

lio-house in St. Martin's. Mr. n^any other instances could be 

Ormond agreed; and SIS they passed cited, in which they constantly 

along, the man requestpd to change viplate the law of the Prophet. 

borses, in order that he might try Many instances of the toil and jus- 

the paces of the one he h^d bought, tice of the Turkish Magistrates are 

The exchange being unsuspiciously on record, among which, the fol- 

made by Mr. Ormond as requested, lowing is particularly worthy of at- 

the swindler immediately rode com* tent ion. 

pletely away, leaving the seller to A merchant on the point of set- 
lament his credulity, on the back t^g out on a trading journey, eu- 
of a glandered mare not worth a trusted a Dervise, who was his 
guinea. friend, with the care of a purse of 

gold. On his return, this holy 



ssc^ 



jtmn denied the deposit. The mer- 

TLTBKISH MANNERS AND CUS- chant, consequently, went before a 

TOMS. Cadi, who, on hearing his com- 

t ^ plaint, desired him to return on the 

NFIDELITY is sensibly * pro- following day. In the mean time, 

gi-essive in Turkey, as well as he sent for the Pervise, whorti he 

elsewhere. The Turks are very received with kindness, and evei-y 

rigid in their observance of thq possible mark of esteem. *' Being 

hours of prayer, of their ablutions, on the point," said he, '' of qnit- 

and.of several other regulations } ting the country for some time, I 

but a vast number of them never- vvish to entrust to your care a very 

theless violate the most sacred dog- considerable sum of money, but 

mas of the Koran. Mahomet him* this is an afiair which requires 

self is not unfrequently very lightly secrecy. I shall send you the de- 

•pokea^ of. posit to-morrow night, as to the 

lipnestesl 



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iBE. spfrnTnsc. UAGAzaaK 



honestestman of my acquaintaDce." 
Tlie Dervise; quite ({eligbt4;(l, m£ide 
jRaQy prQt,e&tatiou^ of inviolable 
honesty, and returned borne j and 
tbe rnercbant, baving waited on 
t^e Cadi, according to appoint- 
ment, was desired to apply for bis 
ihoney again to tbe Dervise, and 
tb tbreaten^ in case of refusal^ an 
application to bim. . He did so^ 
Accordingly, and the Dervise, not 
Willing to lose tbe confidence of 
t!ie Cadi^ which it was so useful to. 
llreserve, restored tbe money. Af- 
ter he bad waited foi' some time, 
"v^itb much impatience, but in vain, 
the pei-formance of the Cadi'i pro- 
ihise^ be visited him, in order to 
k*^now what was tbe caitse of delay, 
but was utterly confounded, wben, 
instead of tbe expected deposit, be 
received a sbarpi reboke from the 
juage, for bis dishonesty. 

It would be a great omission for 
^ traveller ih Turkey, to forbear 
saying any thing of the Harem, 
t^e Seraglio, tbe Odaliskas, and 
every thing else which relates to 
tlie most interesting portion of tbe 
hitman race j but, if he tells truth, 
he must necessarily destroy matiy 
illusions created by former travel- 
lers, or rather inditers of romances > 
gloomy edifices, high indented bat- 
tlements, ill furnished apartments, 
gardens badly laid out, badly kept, 
imd laid vvaste at pleasure by the? 
women of tbe Harem j such is the 
faithful representation of one of 
these imaginary paradises^. 

Tbe women pass their time in a 
round of amusements consistent 
with tbei;; solitary lives. These 
Qpnsist in changing their dress se- 
veral times in tbe course of tbe day, 
in paying reciprocal visits, in re- 
ceiving lessons in dancing, and 
music on tbe piano-fortie and tbe 
guitar, and in receiving tbe boni- 
i|ge of tbeir companions of inferior 



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r^nk. Slaves of their oWn sax «f# 
the only persons allowed to con- 
tribtite to their amusement ; they 
lie upon sofas for hours together, 
while these girls dance and play 
8( kind of pantomraie or melo-' 
drama, into wkieh the reader may 
be assured love enters for not ft 
little. 

But it will he asked, is there no 
method by which these beautiful 
captives can contrive to elude the 
rigour of such cneiel' laws as those 
to which they are subjected? no 
method of eluding the vigilance- of 
the black and white monsters who 
enchain thftn ? has not his High* 
ness generally in his service some 
yotiDg Officers orsly pages ventur- 
ous enough to scale walls and en* 
Hvcn the gloomy prison by tlje pre-*^ 
sence of love? Undoubtedly his 
Highness has pages, he has four or 
five hundred, divided into several 
classes, each of which has its re- 
spective function to fulfil^ but 
these poor yoimg people are as 
much slaves as the Odaliskas them- 
selves. "Let the reader present to 
his imagination a handsome youtb^ 
enveloped in a large -night gown, 
with a broad high cap upon hiar 
head ; one. will never be inclined 
CO suppose that a person in sneb 
a eostuflie would thiak of love ad- 
ventures. 

Reserve and modesty are the at- 
tributes of these pages, who are 
called Itch Oglans, and by. na 
means the petulant and silly viva* 
city by which the characters of 
pages in our more western region* 
are marked. — In Turkey so high a 
notion is entertained of the wis- 
dom and discretion of tbe Itch 
Oglans, that not less than etghty 
of them are employed as guards of 
sweetmeats and confec^.tioncry. — 
The reader will probably stare, and 
cry " Pages guards of confection 

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tieryl:*. Tb& fact indeed is, that 
Vuch a custom inilitates4igaiiis( all 
bur "received notions of things. It 
jvonld appear that they might as 
^ve1l be made guards ot'the Serag- 
lio, hut our surprise is diminished 



dressed to turn over the leaf, l^o 
custom a])peai's more woithy of 
imitation than this. If it were ge- 
nerally adopted, what a number of 
nothings abd absurdities would re- 
main unwritten. It is extremely 



when we are informed that these judicious to teach young person* 



youngs persons are brought up in 
the. SerHglio, not only for the pur- 
po^eL of .bjeiog . more, immediately 
devoted to the service of the Prince, 
bnt alsp for that of being ultimately 
invested with the principal employ- 
ments in the State ^ and it must 
consequently happen, that such 
lofty views as they are taught to 
entertain must impart to them a 
greater degree of gravity and pru- 
dence than seems to h^ consistent 
witli their agej» 

J The Turks observe in the conduct 
of their correspondence,* a number 
of little matters of eiiqueite, to 
^hich they attach much import- 
ance ; not to say any thing of the 
;ditt'erent kinds of paper, addresses, 
€nvelo[>es, and seals, which they 
4ise, they have one' custom which is 
particularly remarkable, and not a 
little entitled to praise.—- When they 
>vrite, th^y never fill more than one 
page of their paper : it would be 
reckoned a great piece of rudeness 
if you obligt^d the person you ad- 



to express themselves well in few 
wottls, to reduce and compress 
their thoughts instead of amplify- 
ing them. It must be confessed, 
that the Turks have sometiiin|^ 
good. 

Among some other .custpii%« 
which are not to be despised, there 
is one which is deserving of parti- 
cular notice. — The Ministers or 
Doctors of Law, who su^ c/dUed 
Mufties, may be consulted by, aU 
descriptions of citizens. Wh^ 
they hav^ examined the merits ot* 
the suit, they deliver a judgn^al, 
called a fetva, which is usually 
couched in very precise terms. 
The consultation is made in feigne^ 
names, for the purpose of avoiding 
the possibility of favour. 0«e 
Mufti, remarkable for his virtues 
and piety^ had a basket hung up 
in his apartment for the reception 
of questions, answen'to whicn 
were found in it . the following 
morning. " r . 



.:A COMPLETE LIST OF THE WINNING HORSES^ &c; 

' IN 1812. .— 



^ges. . GOT BY ALEXANDER. . No, of PHzeS, 

7. 'T>E*REK1CE, Mr. Benson's, 307gs. at Manchester; LordWiU 
, '*^. ton*s, 50^8. .and 70I. at Knutsford^ 50l, at Warwick, and 

40gs. at Lichfield w ...... -4 

3'. Java, General Grosvenor's, 250gs. at Newmarket 1 

4^. Tbalestris, Duke of Rutland's, 600gs. at Niewmarket ^l. .t 

BY ALEXANDER THE GREAT. ' -'i 

a..Nettleham-Lass';<outof Wizard's dam) Mr. Buckle's, the Gold 

Cup at Lincoln .-. i 

Vaii.XLL— No. 242. . K 



70 THE SPORTING MAGAZINB. 

Ages, BY ALONZO. Ko, of Pfixfi, 

4. Bay Filly, Mr. T. Stephenson's, 50l. at Durham ' I 

5. Bay Mare, (dam by Cavendish) Mr. Bettison's, llOgs. at Notting- 

ham 1 

BY AMBROSIO. 

"7. Matilda, Mr. C. Pay*s, 501. at Chippenham, and 50l. at Monmoath 2 

BY BARNABY. 

6. Claret, Mr. Hill's, 50gs. at QooAwood 1 

3. Yorick, Mr. Robinson's^ 50l. at Nantwic)i 1 

BY BENINGBROUGH. 

4. Bashful, Dake of Hamilton's, 150gs. at Pontefract ; also the 

Kiog's Purse and 501. at Lincoln i 

3. Bay Colt, Sir W. Gerard's, 200g8. at Catterick; 150gs. at Pres- 
ton, and 80g8. at Ormskirk 3 

3. Bay Gelding, (out of Lady Jane) Lord Lowtber's, 60pg8. and 
dOOgs, at Newmarket , % 

3. Biiy Gelding, Mr. Lindon's, 501. at Taunton i 

4. General Graham, Mr. Shawe's, 50l. at Chester 1 

9. Hylai, Mr. Bui^'8, 50gs. at Goodwood ; the King's Plate at 

utitldford, and the Silver Bowl at Salisbury ^ . . • • Si 

3. Laura, Mr. Astley's, 50l. at Warwick 1 

3. Ltmblifter, Mr. Bamlet's, 50l. at Morpeth, and 501. at Stockton. . 2 

3. Master Harry, Mr. Scarishrick's, lOOgs. at Preston % 

5. Itovedino, Mr. W. Hutchinson's, 501. at Newcastle; Lord Queens- 

* berry's, 501. at Dumfries -.,.... 2 

5. Trophonius, Lord Darlington's, 600gs. at Newmarket 1 

^, White-Rose, Mr. Courtney's, 50l. at Tavistock I 

BY BOASTER. 

'4. Banker, Mr. Powell's, SOgs. and 50l. at Cardiff. 3 

3, Bay Colt, (out of Vixen) His Royal Highness the Duke of 

York's, 75gs. at Egham 1 

4, Bully, Colonel King's, 50gs. at Peterborough • . • ^ . . . . ., I 

$. Hopeless, Mr. Stevens's, 50gs. at Ludlow, and 50l. at Oxford. ... % 

BY BOBTAIL. 

5, Bay Filly, (dam by Dungannon) Mr. Newnham's« 75g8. at 6ood« 

wood ,...,,... .^ 1 

4» Demetrius, Mr. Biggs's, 125gs. at Maddington ; 125gs. at Bibury, 
and 54gs. at Winchester •..••••.. « • 3 

.BY BRASS. 

7« Caroline, Mr. Mewburn's, 40g$. at Peterborough, . • », • . V 

BY BR0\VN-BREAI>. 

•• Biscuit, Mr. Brandling's, QOgs. at Catterick, and I lOgs. at Durham 2 

. . . BY BUZZARD. 

f . Invalid) Mr. Howorth's, 50l« at Newmarket, . ^ .•••...•••*••«•• • 1 

1^ Yellow-Hammer, Lord Lowther's, 50gs. at Newmarket . • • 1 

BY CJSSARIO. 

#. Donna Clara, General Gower's, lOOgs. at Newmarket j liord 

\ , Sackville's, lOgs. at Bibnrj" ^ . ,.. * 2 

5, Eccles'ton^ 



THE SPORTING MAGAZI24X. l\ 

..... ^ 

A9^r No, of Prixet, 

5. {icclestoa. Lord G.H.€aren4isb\300ff«. and 105gs.4itNewinaiiet a^ 

BY CAMILLUS. 

3. Chesnnt Filly, (olit of Helen) Mr. Garforth's, 6Qgs. at Maltoft • • 1 

3. Clio, Mr. Teasdale's, 50l at Walton, aqd 50l. at York. Z 

3. Gre]^ Colt, (Brother to Oiseau) Mr, Garforth's, 140g$. «f X^rk» 

and 120gi. at Doncaster . . . » » « . ^ 

■^. Grey EUly, (out of Beile-Fille) Mr, T. .fi.obinson*8, iOOg». at 
Malton ,» •./...... , i , vj 

BY CARDOCK. 

a. Under-SfaerifiT^ Mr. Foster's, the Hunters* Stakes at fipsom , t 

BY CHANCE. 

$. Accident, Sir G. Armytage*s, 50L at Cbesterjcld ..;,.......•.. I 

3. Bay Colt, (dam by Antaeus) Mr. Scalfe's, 1 GOgs. ict Stamford . . . . "i 

4. Grimalkin, Duke of Rutland*s, 400gs. 200gs. the Jockey-Club 

PISL^of 50g8. 85gs. 200gs. 200gs. 600gs. and lOOgs. at^ M^- 

knarket . , / ,...•.' ; . - . . S 

4. Speculator, Sir G. Armytage's, lOOL at Pontetlract , .^ ►:! 

• BY CHESHIRE-CHEESB. 

4. Bellator, Captain H. Vyse's, 50gs. at Epsom ; twice 50li. at Gufld- ' 
ford, and 50L at'Srockbridge ..... . : ... .«^. ;...,.., . /. . V. J . 4 

6. Chesnut Gelding, Mr. Price's, a Stakes at Tarporley 1 

4* Cross-Bow, Sir H. L ippincott's^ 50g8, at Stockfiri^ ;. lOOgC 4l)d." 

210g8. at Kingscote 3 twice 501. at Newbury, and SOL at Ba$ing- 

stoke V ..•.•«•...•••.. ^^ 

4. Dronkard, Mr. Shaw's, a Silver Cup at Tarporley. .......;••..• 1 

^. Miss Cheese, Mr. C. Cholmondeley's, 80gs. and AOgs. at Chester . . 21 

"BY COCKFIGHTBR. • 

4. Chapce, (afterwArts Uncle Dick) Mi. Walker's, Jpt. at Ne^rton j 
^r. Price's, 70I at Preston j twice 501. aiWrexbafcn; 45gs. and ' 
received 15gs. at Holywell .*....•...*...•......•• .—6 

3. Firtt-Fly, Mr. Si. L. Hodgson's, 50l. at Chesterfield. •.;...•.... 1 

4. Merry field, Mr. Jaques's, 7^1. at Prestoa i •••••% 1 

BY COLLECTOR. 

6. Anne Moore« Mr* G. Crompton's, 50gs. at Chesterfield .....••• % 

BY CaRXAND£R« 

5. Ne^Plus^Ultra, Mr. Smith's, 7ags. at Barton-iyon-Trent 1 

^^ Schoolhay, Mr« I^dbt^ke's, 60gs. at Ascot • . » 1 • I 

BY COaiOLAf^US. 

:Q. I'nirsme-He-sha'n't, Mr. Scarisbrick's, 130{n, at Manchester, 
120ga. at Newton, 5Ql. at Lancaster, 70I. at Preston, md AQgs. 

at C^mskirk • • ^ 

>. ]&forgiaQa« Mv. Pigott's, 50L ^ftt Bibury, and id. at Bath. ., ^ 2 

HY x>Am;.». 
j^, Isp-Hill, Mr. 01iphaiit% 40gs. at Pearith ,»»• I 

BY DBBMKt. 

%2 A EpptfiltQID^ 



yi the" sporting MAGAZENk 

^f'es^ \ , ..... ,No.qfFrva», 

4.. Epperston, Sir M. M. Sykes's, 50\ at Richmond, and 50l."at" 

^ Northallerton 2 

-$. •GaRymede, Mr. Cawood's, 50!. at Newcastle ; Mr, Key's, 50l. at 
^ • ' I^amberton, the Kmg's Purse of )00gs. and 50^. at Edinhurgfa, 

' * tlfe }Cing:*8 Purse of lOOgs. at Ayr, and 501. at Perth 6 

4. Harriet, Mr. Uppleby*s, 6^s. at BeveHeVi 70gt. At Lincola, and 

50t at Northallerton .' ; \ 3 

(i. Juno, Mr. Fletcher*s, 70I. at Newton ; the Gold Cup, value lOOgs. 

with 30gs. in specie, and 60gs. at Newcastle, Staftbrdshire ^ 65L 

I . at Biirton;ii|)m]-Trei)t,'also 85gs. at WaUall 5 

3. Sarissa, Mr. Barrett's, lOOgs. dt Catterick, and lOOgs. at Rich- 

/ mond 2 

/>. [Sledni^re, Sir B. BL Graham's, gOgs. at Catterick .* 1 



BY DIAMOND. 



>ilai 



3.- Bay- Colt, (dam by Alexander) Sir W. W. Wynne's, 50L, at*5^re- 
8 . . ford, 501. at Oswestry, and lOOgs. at Jarporley .........I.. 3 

^..BayJ'illy, (dam by Sir Peter) Sir H. Mainwaring^s, lOOgs. at . 
Nantwich, and 60gs. at Knutsford \ 2 

4. '9i^rBoy, Mr. Vletcher>, 50l. at NottidgUam 1 

{4. Vitula^i Mr. Shavve's, 45gs. at Oswestry .,'.....••. 1 

' BY DICK-ANDRBW9.. 

2. Altkidora,. Mr. Watt's, 60gs. at Maiton, and 180gs. at Yock ! 
*:>$pring- Meeting ,....^.. ^.. 2 

i'4..Biow«. Filly,. (out of Tiny). Lord Sackyille's, 5pg5. ICiOgs. and 
^ > -SOOgs. at.Newmarketj lOOgs. at Bibury, 50l. and received lOL 
*- ■ tft'H^tiytifigdon i ,^..,..^,.. 6 

3. Cwm, Mr. Hewett's, 1 lOQgs. at York,. 10(^8. at Pontefrar.t, and 
;..i.9<^atDpivca^tf4r ...^/. .••'••• 3 

!^.^Cfv.i w^ {Lord J^ariif^^on's,, 1450gs. 40pgs. and 50l. at Newmarket 3 
ia..M9nuel!a^ Mr. Hewett's, the Oaks" Stakes of 1150gs. at' Epsom, 

X . , A^ftgs. at }>9n(?a^^r,.aad SOtgs. at Richmond. 3 

i3..M4?tbei Buncb,.Mr. Watt's, lOC^. at York . . , . V ,'. .'/. : . . :. 1 

^ 3. Pataliiii', Mr.* HarrisbiVs, 'lOOgs. at York .......:.. '.:.; ....... 1 

\3. Tom Tit, Mr.. F. Watt's, 120gs. atid 501. at Maiton, l60gs. at Be- 

VeHey, and 50l. at Nottingham '........•.. .1 • '. » *:. * j v . .'. /. . . 4 

- BY D^TTO, (WILLIAMSON.) 

' ,3.*B*avFiliy, (out of'Bjicchanars dam) Lord DarKngt^o^s/Itidte 
' • fOOgs. at Newmarket ;..../• ;;.(.u . ^ . . 2 



5* Toledo, Sir W. W- HVyime's, 501. and received lOgs. at'HeTefend. . :2 

^ " * " **'••» BY DOTTERiBL:- 

""•5.' Cbeshut Mivve, Ml'. ri(*et'^, 46\. art Basingstoke. i .*..;.. . 1 

''^4.*Kail,Sir'H.LVppinco-tfs, 56l:an(f50gs. at Bath, 55gs. -oaid dOjs. , 

at Winchester *-. ^ .* , . . .:.^ 4 

^ ♦ ftfflrin-HowK Mv\ -Peaieh'd, f iDOgs. irt 'BJ«ridyfor/l> 33g«r anpd jtwice . 

25gs. at UodiAin, also 5^j(.,,9t J^ipgscote '• . . 5 

* t**^' «;«»«W!Ef'CTW?¥i>-/ 'i V. - /♦ 

-^4i-«»lly;Mr. Sisson's, 501. at P|?tq|borougti ... :: . .\ . . . : . :'. . . . : . n 

3* Lazyboots^ 



THE SrORT^NG^ UtAQAZt^^. ?g 

^Ages. No. i5f Prixes. 
3, li'di^yboots. Gen. Grosvenor's/'iOO^S. at Newriharket. . , I 

BY DilUIW^ATOB. 

a. Drum-Major, Mr..F, Buckie's, /45gs. at Stamford ...»,., I 

' BY EAGLE, 

-S. Atiacotida/Mr.'Dttofks*^, 150^. at Nev^market ...••,. 1 

6. Asmodeus, Lord Jersey's, 200^. at Newmarket ^ 1 

4* C6esaautFilly, (out of a Sister to Petwortb) Lord Suffield's, lOOgs. 

. I .<• at Newmarket ^ . ^ ;. . . 1 - . . * 1 

3. Kintbury- Eagle, Mr. Duodas'a. lOOgs. at Newbury ..!..'• h 

S, Oiprfey, Loix) Foley's;! iCX)g& and 200ga. at Newmarket 2 

-3. Scrub, (late Mt«. Edward) Mr. Sbakespear'^, twice JCX^. at.New* 

market : ....•*•.•..#....•..•,.,.•.*,*.. 3 

^, SioD-Hill, Mr. Wheeler's, 501. at Worcester ......•• 1 

BY YOUNG EAGLE. * ' • 

3. Bay Colt, (out of . a Sister to Duxbuiy) Lor-d SackvHle's, twice 
lOOgs. ^t Newmarket ...'.,...•;.. 1 *. 2 



BY EDWIN". 



Bay Hor^e^JV^. JRird's, a Cup, with 25gs, in specie, at Ladlffw . . I 

.BY BMPERpR. 

3. Bay Colt, (dam bfy Pijiator) Mr. ftaker^s, 75gs. at Newcastle. ... I 

5. CoHstrearo, MK -T. Buncombe's, SOOgs. at York/. . . ........... I 

3. Pericles, Mr. Tibbitt's, 50i.' a|t PeterbproDgb, .SQgs. apd.50g8. lU 

- •' 'Northamptdnr ./... 1 ........ * ..... .;...•«.•..••• 5 

BY -EXPECTATION. 

6. Glassblower, Sir R. Brooke's; the Cnp> value 7OK at Cheftter, and 

70gs. at Holywell 2 

3. Hamlet, Mr. Hutty's, 501. at Grimsby 1 

3.' Kilbam, Mr. Hopper's, 501.. at Northallerton, and 50L atStock- 

ton 2 



^ ' BY FIDGET. 



6^ Bay Geldmg, Mr. EUiston's, 50g8. at Brighton 1 

BY FIRBL0C&. 

2. Flint, Mr.T. Feirse's, 40gs. at Richmond 1 

To be continued. 



» ■ I 1 1 I ■ » I » ■ I' 



SWAFFHAM COURSING MEETING. 

T^HIS Meeting commenced on * ti9n, beat Mr. Mellish's blue bitck 
' -* Tuesday, the 10th of Novem- Imogen. 

:ber, 9Liid the fottowing is a correct .2. Mr. S.Tyssen's Clio, beat Mr. 
Matement of the courses run : . Rl Hamond's blue bitch Slipper. 

y-' 1' First Wefki€rsJfield. 3. Mr. Redhead's black hitch 

F(>R XHJ|/QV». •: • J^ovely, beat Mr; H. Redhead*! 
• ^ |. Mr. Hamond's blue dog Ques- black bitch Yaaico, 

A, Mrw 



>4 



THB SPORTING MAGAZINE. 



4, Mr. F. Haniond*8 black dog Swiftsure^ heat Mr. Scatt'$ blk..t» 
Wilberforce, beat Mr. We8ton> p. F^me^ 



black bitcb Henrietta. 



13. Lord Rivers^s blk« d. p. 



5. Mr. Scott*s black dog Fare-' mus, agst Captain Wyatt's blk. and 
well, beat Mr. YouDg*8 blue dog w. d. p. Janusy no cetirse. 



Vagabond. 

6. Mr. Upcher*8 blue bitch Pio« Leveret^ beat Mr. Omrney 
fieer^ beat Mr.. Meresfs blue and 
ivhite bitch Olive Brancb. 



14. Mr. Redhead's, blk. d. p. 

*a bir. b. 



p. Amy. 
15. Mr. Young's blued, p. Vicar* 



7. Captain Wyatt'ft black, and beat Mr. Wilkinson's blk» d, p. 
white dog> Juniper^ beat Lord Ri« Zoro. 



xerS'S black and white bitch Risk. 
^. Mr. GKimey*8 black dog Ar 



list/ beat Mr. • Tyssen's white- dog Jessica. 



\6. Mr. Scott's blk. b. a. Fairy^ 
bfsat Captain Wyatt's blut b. «» 



Telemachus. 

WATCBBS. 

J. Mr, Wilkioson's blk, and w. 



17. Captain Wyatt*s blk. d. a. 
Johnny^ agst Mr. Meresfs blue d. a. 
October, no oc^ursev 

18. Mr. R^ Uamond's blk. c(«. 
d. Zenith, beat Mr. Gurney*s blk. , Skylight, beat liord Rivers's blk. d. 



h. Airy. 

2. Lord Rivers*8 blk, d. p. Re- 



a. Repulse. 

19. Lord Rivers's red b. Rosa^ 



^ent, beat Mr. Merest's w. d. p. agst Mr. F. Hamond's red b. a. 
*^ ' Witch of Bndor>ttQdeolded^ 

20. Mr. F. Hamond's blue b. a* 
Wliisper; beat Mr. Me9Q9tV lA. b. 



Octavian. 

3. Lord RiYers's blk. d. Raekett, 
Vat Mr.'SooU'« blk. d. Fistycuff. 



'4. Lord R{v«vs*s Uk. b. p. Ra* p. Olivia. 

rtty,agst- Mr.- Merest^s- w. b. p. . Mr. iJpcher't IVime of Ufe^re** 

Orange, undecided. ceived, forfeit of Captain Packe'a 

.&. Mr.GocDe|r's b^d.p, ^ga« .Bang •Up. x 

ranemnoD* beat Mr« Redhead's, b^k. 



4!. p. Lark. 

6, Mr.. R. Hatnond*« blk. m. d.; 
p. jSnugy.beat.Mr. jScoit'^ bik.. K p. 
Fanny. 

{ 7. Lord Rivers's blk. b. p. Rye, 
beat Mr. Merest's blk. b. p. Otter. 

g. Lord Rivers*s blk. d. Royal, 



CLEY FI^LU 
Wednesdaiff, NocenUfer the llih^ 

FOR THB CUP. 

1. Mr. Hamond's Qiie^tion^ beat 
Mr. Upcher's Pioneei^ 

2. Mr. Scbtt*s Farewell, 'beat 



'a|;^tCdptaia'Wyatt*s blue d. a. Mr. F. HMnotid's WihMd'fiDrce. 
Junius, undecided. ' 3. Captain Wyatt'sJiuiiper, beat 

9. Mr. Scott> blk. d. p. Fee fa Mr. Tyssen's Clio. 



Film, heat Mr. R. HarnQml's blk, 
h. p. Susanna. 

10. Lord. Q-ivers's blk. (|. a. 
Rainbow, agst Mr. R. fa[amond*s. 
yellow.d. a. §upftower, utidj^ckled. 
' H. Lord Rivevs's blk. d. ». Ri- 



Xialdo, agst Captain Wyatt's blue Venture. 



4. Mr. Gurney's Artist^beat itck 
Redhead*B Lovely. 

MATCBB8. 

1. Captain Wyatt^a Joaa re« 
ceiyed forfeit feom Ife. Yagagfa, 



1^. a. Jaae, up^Iecided. 

13. Mr. R. Hamo»d'^ blk. b. f. F. 



2._ Mr. if linfi^a Asp, beat Mr, 

yno course. 



VaS SFORtlMG UAOAZmE. fi 

Z. Cftfrtliiiil^yatf s Julius Cssar, 11. Mr. Redhead's Ymieo, beat 

^pgsjt Mr. Seott's Fame, do course. Mr. F. Uamond^s Wiltshire. 

4. Mr. F. Hamond^a Wizaid^ . 12. Mr. Gumey's Airy^ beat 
tigst Mr. Gurney's Airy, no course. Mr. F. Hareond's Wizard. 

5. Mr, Scott's Favourite^ agst 13. Mr. Weston's Henrietta, 
Mr. Weston's Henrietta> no course, agst Mr. Scott's Favourite.-— Off« 

6. Mr. Upcher's Product, agst 14. Mr. Gurney's Amy, beat 
Mr. Redhead's Leveret, undecided. Capcain Wyatt's Janette. 

7/ Mr* Young's Volunteer, beat 15. Mr. Merest's Omnia, beat 

Mr* Wilkinson's ZelL Mr. Upcher's Promise. 

B. Mr. Upcher^s Purr, heat Mr. l6. Captain Wyatt's Julia, agst 

^Redbead's Lounger. Mr. Scott's Fanny, undecided. 

g. Mr. H.^ fUdbead's Yarico, IJ. Mr, Merest's Orsaige, beat 

agst Mr. F. Hamond's Wiltshire, Mr. Upcher's Peerless. 

Iio course. IS, Mr. Tyssen's (Mr. Bliss,) 

10. Captain Wyatt's Jane, beat Gipsey, beat Mr Merest's Otter. 
Mr, R. Hamond's Smglepeeper; ■■■ ■ 

11. Mr. Wilkinson's i^eoo, beat jjECOND WESTACRE PIEUX 
Capt. Wyatt's Johnny. . Friday /Novemherihe 13th, 

, NARBOROUGH FlELDf^ FOR THE CUP. 

rftttrsday, November the I2th. ^ ^r Gurney's Artist, beat Mr. 

FOH THE CUP. ^^^^^ 8 Farewell. 

Mr. Scott's Farewell, beat Cap;- matches. 

tain Wyatt*8 Juniper. L Mr. Tyssen^s Telemachnt, 

Mr. Gitrney's Artist, beat Mr. l»eat Mr. F. Hamond's Witch «F 

Hamond's Question. Eudor. 

matches. 2. Mr. R. Hamond's SusanDab, 

1. Mr. Chute's Nunc, agst Mr. •beat Mr. F. Hamond's Whisper. 
Crurney's AnoUo, off by consent. 3. Mr. Gurney's Airy, agst Mr. 

2. Mr. Dover's Dart, beat Mf . Wilkinson's Captain, undecided. 
P. Hamond's Wafer. 4.. Mr. Upcher's Pioneer^ beat 

3. Mr. Scott's Fame, beat Cap- Mr. Gurney's Amy. 

tain Wyatt's Joan. 5. Mr. Scott's Fairy, beat Cap» 

4. Mr. Upcher's Psyche, agst tain Wyatf s Jessica. 

Mr. Merest's OlWe Branch, no 6. Mr. Wilkinson's Claret, agst 

course. Mr. R. Hamond's blk.b. p. Spphiil^ 

5. Mr. Upeber's Pounce, ag«t no course. 

4:aptain Wyatt's JetilfO, uild». 7- Mr. Scott's Flirt, beat Cap^* 

•cided, tain Wyatt's Julia. 

6. Mr. Redhead's lAvAf ro« 8. Mr. Upcher's Pit>duct4 beat 
^ived forfeit Mr. Tyssen's Trap. Mr. Gurney's Agamemnon. 

7. Mr. Wilkinson's Zett, be«tt Q. Mr. R. Hamond's Sunflowei^ 
'Mr. Merest's Oyster Wench. bieat Mr. Scott's Fistycnff. 

8. Mr. Merest's Octavian, beat 10. Captain Wyatt's Janus, beat 
*Mt. Cvnrney'6 Antiope. ' Lord Rivers's Remus. 

9. Captain Wyatt's Jessica, beat XI. Lord Rivers'! Royal, agst 
Mr. Scott's Flirt. Captain Wyatt's Junius, undecidedL 

10. Captain Wyatt's Jasper, beat 12. Mr. Redhead's Lively, beat 
'Mr. Merest's October. ^rd Riven's Riaaldo. 

• * 13. Mr. 



99 . THE SEOKTIVQ JUAmzmE. 

¥ 

13, Mr. 'Weston's Henrietta^ Mnet^ in. the Boroii^; l««itfk4lble 
beat Mr. Scott's. B'avotirite. . for his weaitb and ignoi:anc^ op 

14. ,Mr.JDover*s Dart, bcatMr. Xhe death . of his . uncle Jeremy 
F. Hamond's Will>erfQrce. . . JewsQn> proceeds to York^hivQy tt 

15.. Mr. R. Hainood*s Snug, iake possession of an estate, dc 

beat Mr. Scott's Fanny. vised to him by bis relative. Ici 

l6. J^Ir. K. Hamoiul's Skylight, the mail coach be encounters .Mr. 

beat Captain Wyatt's Jasou Juur. Flexible, a lawyer, travelling, .the 

17* ^^* Merest's Omnia, agst .Circuit, and an Actress, .going to 

Mr. Wilkinson s Colonel, uude* join the York coii>pany. H« soofi 

cided. acquaints his companions with the 

18. Mr. Wilkinson's Careless, objects of bis journey j first to 

ftQ^i\td forfeit from Mr. Tyssen's claim the estate of tb« l.ate uncle. 

Trifle. • and next to marry^ Laura, the 

• IQl Mr. Merest's Orange, agst jiiece of Dr. Camphor, who. xk 

Mr. lUdbeadls Leveret, oft*. jinx ions . for the match, profl^iflcd 

20. Mr. Merest's October, agst Looby proves himself to .b« .s^e 
"Mlv.JP, Hamond's Waf?r, off, , Jbeir to. the property. . Flexible, 

21. Mr. ^lerest's Olive Branch, who is aware that his friend> Cap^ 
agst Mr. Wilkinson's Castle, off. tain Danvers, is Laura's favoured 

22. Mr. Redhead's Lovely, agst lover, immediately determines to 
Mh WrFkinson's Cato, off. oppose Looby. Having leamefl 

23. Mr. Reed's Bang, agst Mr. that the name of one of bis fellow- 
Tyssen's (Bliss) Gifisey, off. travellers, is John Brown/ a man 

M. Mr. F. Hamond's Witch of well known in the city of Yoili, 

Sndor^ . beat Mr. H. Redhead's .he personates hi^ servant, an^ un- 

Yarico. der pretence of his supposed ma^ 

.., ,, ■ , , . , ter having suddenly broke his leg, 

.be has Dr. Camphor called up at 

NiBWFAECE, CALLED "LOVE, midnight, who proceeds to BrownVi 

J LAW, AND PHYSIC." house* which gives Danvers an 

; .«. ^ ; T~' opportunity of making his en- 

j^FTER the comic opera of The trance, for the pur|»o8e of persuad- 

. Lord o/Me^Ma«or, on Friday, i„g his mistress to an elopement, 

the 20th instant, at Covent Garden jbe sudden return of Camphor, 

Theatre, an^w musical farce, de- however, destroys rfiis plan. Flex- 

nommated love. Law, and Physie, ible,'by means of the actress, wboiii 

a tftle cbmpnsing, according .tp he has engaged to assist hrm, ha v- 

^nae philosophers,, thiee ot the jqg leanw^t that Loc^by's «ncl^ 

greatest evils in life,, was produced ^^,hile abroad, cohabited with n 

^tthi&theatre. The.principal cha- jtfrs. V44isc9;f.by whom "he had 

racters were. thus pertonned;— ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ i^itroduces Danvers t^ 

SrvCatoiplMir ^Mr, BUnchard. j[)|-. OaOHphQr, at whose house 

TJounsellor Flexible Jlr. Mathews. T nnhv Tftd/I^MB >»«i the fruit of ttus 

I.ooby Lor ....:...;. Mr. Lfston. ' L,ooby jrosioesr as. ine n uic ^ ««"? 

.C«|ibMbI>kflv«nkU;........Bfr.£j5oailhurst. .connflc^loUi to claim bis tatbers 

Andrew ..Mr. Emery. ^^ property : ^t here b\bo he is il^ 

5otaXU':::::::::::::::5^:AS. " twed, as the register of the bap. 

Mneiant Actress Mrs, Gibbs. tism, which Lopby produces, 

Javtb. ....;..; Miss E. Bolton, prervesthe issue to have been a t«- 

JL»ooby Log, a native of Tdoley- male. Again discomfited, Dao*- 

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"vers retires j but Flexible, who bas 
filled the DQctor with a high idea 
ef his forensic talents, by several 
•l)ombastic speeches, is requested by 
him to plead a cause^ in which he 
is defendant, and on his success in 
,'Whirb, the character of hi^ fa- 
vourite nQ9trum entirely depends. 
Flexible pleads the cause, and 
brings him off victorious. His 
gratitude prompts him, in conse- 
quence, to break olf the proposed 
match between his niece and Loo- 
by, and to bestow her on Danvers, 
. ok' . whose respectability Flexible 
convinces him, but unfortunately 
he has given bis consent in writing 
to the Tooley -street beau, with 
whose manners he is completely 
. citsgusted. This obstacle is soon 
-overcome by Flexible, who gets his 

• friend, the Actress, to personate 
-Miss Velasco, whom Looby, fear- 
ful lest tlie superior right of his 

I supposed cousin should deprive him 

of his uncle's estate, swears to es- 

. pouse, and gives up all pretensions 

• to Laura. He soon discovers the 
trick, but consoles himself under 

.the loss of his mistress, who is 

united to Danvers, with the reflec- 

' tion, that they cannot deprive him 

• of Jerry Jewson*s bequest. 

This little piece boasts a greater 
. sbere of humour and of incident 

than we recollect to have seen, in 
. 4iny similar production, for some 

time. Many of the circumstances 

- mte extremely ludicrous 5 and though 

- the characters are not very strong- 
ly drawn, yet they are so grouped 

. Bs to afford a great deal of enter- 
tainment. The dialogue, in many 
instances, exhibits a spirit of re- 
partee and vivacity greatly superior 
to the miserable tissue of puns and 
obsolete jests with which the pub- 
lic taste has been recently so much 
nauseated. The two principal cha- 
jTiicters, Looby Log and Mr« Flex* 
VoL. XI4^Nd. 242. 



ible, were inimitably supported by 
Messrs. Liston and Mathews. The 
description given by the latter of 
his speech in Dr, Camphor^s de* 
fence, and the Judge's charge, was 
excellent. His imitation of a cer- 
tain Noble Law Lord was amaz* 
ingly exact, and drew down peak 
of applause. Mr. Mathews was 
also very happy in his execution of 
a good comic song, describing tli^ 
uproar of the mob, inside and' out- 
side of a theatre, which was en^ 
cored. His imitation of the strange 
variety of discordant sounds wa 
minutely perfect. Mr, Blanchar 
as Dr. Camphor, and Mr Emery 
as Andrew, a Yorkshire servant, 
were highly amusing. The over- 
ture and music, by Mr. M. P. King, 
are sweet and expressive. 

Love, Law, and Physic, received 
the unanimous suffrages of the au- 
dience, and, we doubt not, will 
long continue a favourite. 



SPORTING DISPUTE IN NdaXH-' 
AMFfONSHIRE. 

npHE following particulars of a 
Game Dispute, in Northamp* 
tonshire, has appeared in the Cam- 
bridge Chronicle, a respectable Pro- 
vincial Journal : — 

'^ Game Laws.— It is no doubt 
in the recollection of tlie public, 
that between two and three yews 
ago, an information was laid a- 
gainst Mr. Robinson, of Thrapston, 
for sporting upon a manor near the 
residence of a certain Noble Lord, 
in the county of Northampton, 
and that on the hearing before the 
Magistrates he gave a fall and sa^ 
tisfactory proof of his quaUficatioti. 

*' It will also be remembered, 

that very soon after this occui^- 

rence, Mr. L. H. Robinson (soa 

of Mr. R.) who wa» theo/iwlrc- 

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turned from school, was, for merely 
walking over one of Uis Lorclship*s 
manors with his gun in his baud, 
convicted in the penalty of 5\, for 
shootingj not being qualified ; and 
this conviction was made as public 
us possible ; it is however truly to 
be lamented that it was suhmitted 
to> as in point of fact, Mr. L. H, 
Bobinson was unquestionably quali- 
fied to kill game in his own right.. 

" Mr. Robinson, sen. has since 
been favoured with a rlidcharge 
from all his Lordship's Estates in 
the neighhom'hqod wherein he re- 
sides ; although he never trespassed 
upon his Lordship*s estates, he ne- 
vertheless took out a regular certi- 
. iicate in Septeml)er last, and shot 
(with the permission of ifie owner) 
upon an Estate within a manor of 
the Noble Lord's, and adjoining to 
one of his Estates. His Lordship's 
keeper interrupted him in his sport. 
The dogs started a bare which the 
keeper made them pursue tin'ough 
•the hedge into the adjoining field 
of the Noble Lord, where his 
Lordship was waiting with his dou- 
ble-barrelled gun ; as tlie dogs 
were quietly returning from tiie 
pursuit, the Noble Lord shot one 
dead and wounded the other very 
severely } he loaded again, fired a 
second time at. the wounded dog, 
and laid him prostrate. Mr. R. 
sen. being discharged, bis son, Mr. 
L. H. R. was about to go to their 
. assistance, when he was forcibly 
prevented and violently assaulted 
. by the Keeper, His Lordship, 
however, seemingly apprehensive 
of the consequences, thougbt pro- 
. per to get another infobmation 
laid against Mr. Robinson, sen. for 
usipg agun,NOT being auAX.iFiED, 
which came on before a most re- 
spectable bench of five Magistrates 
at Kettering^ on the 9th instant, 
. when after a full hearing of Mr. 
' €roodall (Mr. Robinson's solicitor) 



and the evidence, Mr. R.'s qatli£« 
cation was again fully and satisfac- 
torily j)roved.'* 

I - - . , L 1. ■ ■! ■ II I ■ 1 . ■ - - I ' 

I* ^— ^^ ■ ■■ ■ ■^■■--* ■■■ — --■■--■ ■ ■■ ■^■— ■ — — 

A DROP LEAP. 

r\¥ this plate of A Drop Leap, 
we have nothing further to re- 
mark) than that it iforms the third 
of the series of Etchings on Hunt- 
ing, which has been recently com- 
menced in our Magazine, and that 
it is, like those previously given, 
the production of Mr. Howitt, 
whose labours have often been be* 
fore our readers. 



WARWICK NOVEMBKR RACES. 

nPHE Warwick November Races,, 
for horses that bad been regu- 
larly hunted with Lord Middletou* s 
bounds the ]>receding season, took 
place on Friday, the 6th instant. 

The All-age Stakes of 50g8. ten 
subscribers, two-mile beats, wefe 
won by Mr. T. Cumines's br. g. 
Honington, beating Mr. John Rus- 
sell's hi. ui. Positive. 

All-iige Stakes (thorougb bred), 
50gs. — two-mile beats, were won 
by Mr. E. Canning's b. m. Slang, 
beating Mr. Tomes's b. b. Watch- 
man. 

Atnatcbfor5Ql.three mileheats, 
was won by Mr. W. Collin's b. g. 
Ragged Jack, distancing Mr^ K. 
Tomes's br. g. Adjutant. - 

The Right Hon. Lord Middle- 
ton's Plate of 50gs. was won at 
three heats, by Mr. W. Sedgley's 
ch. >n. by Stamford, beat lug Mr.. 
J. Chambers's br. g. by Fidget, Mr. 
Cimiines's br. g. Honington, and 
Mr. Kobin&9 br. m. Stick ia the 
Mud. — The company vras nunaej- 
ous, and the running generally af- 
forded good sport. Fifteen names 
ere entered for the all-aged 5g,s, 
stakes, and three for the tborougiii 
bred stakes^ for ae&t year. 

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FE*dST OF WIT, 



A Lady returning from Church a 
few Sundays since^ expressed 
her opinion pretty freely of the 
clergyman and his discourse^ and^ 
in speaking of the former^ declared^ 
** She had scarcely ever seen a per- 
son hdk so forlorn** " Why, 
Madam," observed a gentleman, 
who was present, " 1 am afraid 
qiost clergymen look for lawn /** 

The wife of a gentleman who 
holds a situation in the Post-Of- 
Jke, being lately brought to bed of 
twins, rather before her time, and 
the husband having been previously 
engaged to dine with a friend the 
same day, he wrote to him to say, 
he was prevented the pleasure of 
keeping his appointment, in conse- 
quence of having received a double 
letter by the early delivery /" 

As the celebrated Mr. Ince was 
walking with a friend up Parlia- 
ment-street, a few days since, the 
eccentric Mr. L n of the Tem- 
ple, passed by in an hackney coach. 
No. 1000.—*' Aht" exclaimed 
Ince, " I always thought L— 
was a man in a thousand.^* 



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An elderly gentleman, who re- 
sides in Sussex, possesses a con- 
siderable estate, watered by a ro- 
mantic river, which in one part 
runs under a beautiful hanging 
wood : in this picturesque spot the 
woflhj proprietor bad discovered 
a very remar/ca((e echo, and having 
related to several of his friends, va- 
rious instances of the distinctness 
of tlie repetitioD;, and the harmony 



of the reverberations, they haturai* 
ly became extremely solicitous to 
witness its eftects, in which he very 
kindly determined to gratify them; 
and soon afterwards invited a nn^ 
merous party to dine at his house. 
Dinner was ordered an hour earlier 
than usual, in order to afford mor» 
time for making experiments on 
the astonishing Lusus Natunx, 
which formed the magnet of the 
day ! Tlie repast was hastily con- 
cluded, and very shortly afterwards 
the whole party, consisting of a 
great many ladies and several gen- 
tlemen, embarked in a couple of 
boats provided for tlie occasion. 
It was a remarkably fine serene 
evening, towards the end of Sep- 
tember. They at length reached 
the wished-for 8}K)t : the author of 
the entertainment (who had> sta*' 
tioned himself at the head of\the 
foremost boat) now stands up, de- 
sires the rowers to poise their oars, 
and entreats the company to liste^x 
attentively ! They comply ; — not K 
a sound is to be heard, — at length, r^ 
he breaks the silence, and puts the %» 
wondei*ful Echo to the test, by 
exclaiming in a most audible tone, 
" How do you do P" — when to the 
dismay of the interrogator, and the 
astonishment of his attentive au- 
ditory, — " Ask my A — e," is thun- 
dered from the wood above, by the 
stentorian lungs of a Light-horse 
recruit, who happened to b« sta- 
tioned among the bushes with 
some of his comrades, on a mitting 
expedition. The effects of this 
malicious reply, which was rever- 
berated in eveiy direction^ may 

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be easily coneeived } it completely soliloquy on Honour, exclaimed, 
pat a stop to all further expert- " What is honour? Jfho hath 
inents ; and the chagrin of the old itT Why he thai died on Wedna- 
gentleman was not a little heigh- cay 1 ! r 
tened^ by the provoking observa- ■ 
tions made during the rest of the Bank notes may be very appro- 
evening by his company, as to the priately termed leaf gold I 

extraordinary effects of his surpris- 

tn^jEc^> which will most probably A gentleman lately speaking 

serve as a standing joke during the of the impiety of the Jews^ declared 

rest of hb life. that "even at the Synagogue, thej 

— were all a gog to sin /'* 

An old lady who resides in Lon- • 

^n, whilst questioning her ser- A gentleman who was lately 

Tants as to some plates wbich had settling his tailor*s bill, said so hiui, 

been broken, told them she never " Why ! you charge in this bill 

would be angry when a thing was a greater quantity of cloth for my 

done by accident. Shortly after coat, than you did kist year, and 

this kind intimution, she discovered you confessed then that you bad 

that one of her maids was " in saved enough cabbage to make a 

that condition which ladies wish jacket for your little boy, and I 

to be who love their lords," and am sure I am not grown since.*' 

immediately interrogated the de- '^ No, Sir,** replied the tailor, 

linqoent on the subject^ when the " you are not, but the tittle boy is 

yoot girl, thinking to disarm her surprisinglT^ /" 

mistresses displeasure, very feeling** 

ly assured her it was done ky acci* EPIGRAM. 

dent ! " Is my wife out of miriit f^ said Sir 

, . John with a sigh ; 

m n ««- -ri ee>y ^^^ l^e feared th«t « tempest was 

Th» Rev. Mr. E— — , of Sbrop* forming. 

l»hire, who is rather fastidious with ** Quite out. Sir, indeed," said her -maid 

mpect to pen»nal cleanliness, ., she fiiSSSi tb« hrmdy tUa mom- 

lately broke off a match with a ing." 

rich widow about fifty, because 

coming into her room one day un- Bon Mot- — ^When Mr. WHber- 

awares, he caught her picking her force was a candidate for Hidl, hia 

fioie i0tl/i the weddittg finger ! sister, an amiable and witty young 

■ ' lady, offered the compliment of a 

Thi nsemorable duel between new gown to each of the wives of 

Count De Barry and Count Rice, those Ireemen who voted for her bro- 

in which the former was killed, ther — on which she was saluted with 

was fought on Hampton Down, a cry of " Miss Wilberforcc for 

Bath, on a Wednesday, about twenty ever ! " — when she pleasantly observ- 

years since. The play of Henry ed, « I thank you, Gentlemen — ^but 

the Fourth had been some time pre- I cannot agree with you — for re^ly 

viously advertised for the following I do not wish to be Miss Pftlder^ 

Saturday, at the Theatre there; Jbrcejbr ever J'* 

and it wus impossible to describe ■. .i 

the effect produced upon the au- A child, who latdy be^ to 

4Kence, when Falstaff, in speaking learn to read, in the Charity School 

the words of his author, in the at Greenford, was among other 

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words spelling M, I» L, K, vrhioh 
fie covld not immediately put toge- 
ther to say what they spelt, when 
the master saidy " Well, Sir— what 
does M, I, L, K, spell ?"— The bov 
still hesitating^ the master again said, 
** Why what does your mother put 
in her tea ?** — ^The boy answered, 
« Rum, Sir/' 



DyxcH HuMouH. — Van Fagel, 
one. of the proprietors of " The 
Hepublic,** a tavern of considera- 
ble celebrity in Amsterdam^ having 
had various complaints from his 
guests, during the last summer, 
that the waiters so annoyed the 
company with^tbe clatter of their 
iron boot beels^ that they could not 
«njoy their repast^ and they hav- 
ing remonstrated on the subject^ 
be pHt up a notice in the principal 
part of the house, announcing that 
from henceforth ^' No waiter, 
whilst attending upou company, 
shmt,l4 wear hootsy To his asto- 
nishment, on the next day, at the 
oriticai ^n»oment, the dinner hour^ 
every waiter employed in his ser- 
vice appeared at their several posts 
•-oand every one of them wearing 
tach a boot. 



A TRia>£SMAN in Stafford ten- 
dered his acpount a few days ago, 
in which was the following curious 
item. Considering the job, his 
cbarge is certainly moderate: — 
'^ To hanging wickets and myself, 
ieven hours, 5s. 6d. /" 



The late Mr. Windham, when 
Majo.r of tke Norfolk Militia, pre- 
vious to their being reviewed or in- 
spected at Kensington by his Ma- 
jesty, took considerable pains with 
fais officers, all of whom were coun- 
try gentlemen, to toach them to 
•alnte in a graceful manner. Ha 
prided himself on the success of hia 



labours,, when they rehearsed their 
parts to him on th« morning of the . 
review . at length his Majesty ap- 
peared on the ground, but one of 
the Yeowen of the Guards (vuP' 
garly yclept a Beefeater) {>receded^ 
and upon this Officer of State an 
unfo4'tunate Captain of a Com-' 
]>any tbi^w away the Major^ssa- 
lute : strutted past the King, vvith- 
out making any return even to his 
Majesty*s courteous salutation.-r. 
On Major Windham's remoi^Uat* 
ing with the Captain for this bUin-. 
der, the l-atter replietl— " Fudge ! 
dost think I doesn't know the: 
King ? Why he had G. R. in large 
gold letters on his breast/' 

Dr. Burn, in his history of 
Westmorland, relates an anecdote 
of George Hilton, Esq. of Beet- 
ham, who w^s a professed adherent 
of the exiled House of Stuart, and 
drew his sword in their cause dur- 
ing the Earl of Mar*s rebellion in 
171^* This Gentleman was par-» 
doned, and lived to a good old agQ^ 
in his native village< He wrote A 
regular journal of his transact ions« 
in which the following ])aragraph 
appears recorded with much naif^e- 
te^ "On Sunday I vowed to ab^' 
stain from three thii^, during 
the course of the ensuing week» 
which happened to be ii^ Lent; 
viz. the society of women, eating 
flesh, and drinking wine; but, 
alas ! the frailty of good resolu-; 
tion ! I broke them all ; kept com^ 
pany with a girl at Sandside, was 
tempted to eat the wing of a fowl, 
and got drunk at Millthorpe." 

A LECTURER upon the " art of 
memory'* sapiently advises his pu- 
pils, as the first step towfirds ac- 
cjuiring bis system, invariably to 
recollect what they have heavd. — 
Mrs. Glasse, in her " JrtofCook- 

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^r begins ber receipt for making Curious Will. — ^The following 

a bare-pie tbus — " Catcb a Hare." iff a correct copy of the will of the 

■ late Mr. Joshua West, the Poet, of 
FaiENDSHiF^F Drunkards. — the Six Clerks Office, Chancery- 
Two merry fellows, lately, in the lane, dated the 13th of December, 
neighbourhood of Manchester, ha v- 1 604 : — 

ine regaled themselves pretty deep- „ , , ,. , 

1 ^'.^•.i 1^ a:^ ^ • 1 Perhaps I die not worth a groat ! 

ly with electioneering bumpers, gut; should I die worth something 

proceeded, about the middle of the more, 

night, to stagger homewards, along Thj" ] gj^e that— and my best coat, 

*u u • 1 c iu • r 11 r\ And all my manuscnpts m store, 

the brmk of the river Irwell. One To those who sliall the goodness hav* 

of them happened to drop into tbe To cause my poor remains to rest 

stream, and was canied away by Within a decent shell and grave; 

,j_ ^ ^1 ^ 1 / 1 his w the will of Joshua West. 

^e cunent 3 the watery element. Witnessed R. Mills T 

however, restored his senses, and J. A. Berry vJoshua West* 

he contrived to clamber up the JohnBainesJ 

bank, and, missing his companion, Mr. West cted possessed of de- 

instantly conjectured that be was cent property, and some valuable ma^ 

lost in the water. Dripping with nuscripts, which were conveyed by 

water, like a river deity, he knocked the above will to the person who 

up Mr. Dnnstan, Governor of the folfiUed the modest conditions of it. 

New Bailey Prison, and communi- - 

eating the misfortune of his friend Thb following advertisement ap- 

to him, he humanely took out the peared in the New-York Commer-' 

drags and searched the river seve- eta/ Advertiser of Sept. 26 : — 

ral hours for the body. Several *< My wife, Anna Maria Marsh, 

persons assembled, one of whom left my bed and board on the 3d' 

ren to the house of the supposed instant, /or /un, orjancy, or sMnt 

*-owned man, where he found him other lighter cause. The public 

snoring contentedly in his bed. will take notice, that I will not 

"" pay any debts of her contracting,' 

The Spaniards are as proud of from the time she left me. — I airf 

having a Saint among their kin- willing to receive her when she 

drefl as, in this country, people are shall see fit to retutn to her duty. 

0f enumerating, among thwr an- «' John Fleetwood Mars H.*^ 

restois, some great Jiaval Hero, or *♦ East Chester^ September 15^*, i8i»." 

land Commander; and sometimes " — 

fbey expend very large sums of In the list of unclaimed letters, 

money to procure from the Conrt published by the Post-Office, is one 

of Rome the canonisation of some — " To the late Lieut, Robert Ot- 

dcfniict relative. Tbe Marquis de way, formerly belonging to H, M, 

iianglr, in his travels into Spain, Brig Demerara.*' — We may at least 

mentions a Nohleman of his ac- suppose, that it came from Ireland^ 

qiiaint^nce, who used to say to hi^ as none hut a real Pat would write 

family, ** let us all strive ta be to a dead man. 

honest men, but no Saints.'* It was 

the expence attending the fruitless An Irishman observed, a feiv 

attempt to procure the Canonisa- days since, that the. pocAre^f of the 

t ion of his great grandfather that Ladiescookinot be picked, without 

had prove^l the ruin of the family, taking the money out of their Ikands. 

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/^N Tuesday, the 24th instaDt, 
were brought to town, from 
Portsmouth, where they were land- 
eel from on board his Mftjcsty's 
ship Alceste, under the care of Mr. 
James Adkins^ four beautiful Per- 
sian horses ; two from the King of 
Persia, and one from Sir Gore 
Ouseley, our Ambassador, as pre- 
sents to bis Royal Highness the 
Prince Regent, and the fourth to 
the Marquis Wellesley, in conse- 
<|ueuce of the Treaty of Amity and 
Friendship concluded between the 
King of Persia and Great Britain. 

His Royal Highness the Prince 
Regent, the Duke of Clarence, 
Lord Yarmouth, Lord Lowther, 
Count Munster, General Linscn- 
gen. Col. Bloomfield, Mr. Con- 
greve, &c. assembled this month 
on a shooting party at Sudbourne, 
SufiSolk, the seat of the Manjuis of 
Hertford. There was great convi- 
viality, and excellent shooting. 

His Majesty's hounds hunted on 
Tiiebday, tj^e l^tb, when a fine 
young deer was turned out at 
iiouthili Park, near Swiuley, for 
the day's diversion. A very nume- 
rous field of geutlemen sportsmen 
Were assembled by soon after ten 
o'clock 5 the deer went with great 
swiftness across the forest, taking 
by Black wat«r, and running 
tbrougli the enclosures towards 
•Hartford-bridge, where he was 
taken, after upwards of two hours 
•and a half hard running. Another 
deer was tiirned out on Friday, the 
20tfa, at Sumiing-hill Wells, for a 
clay's diversion. — ^Tb« days of the 



Royal Hunt are changed by order 
of the Marqnis Coniwallis, th« 
Master of the Stag Hounds; in<* 
stead of Tuesdays and Saturdays, 
they are to be Mondays and Fri« 
days. — (See some remarks on these 
hounds, and an account of the 
sport on the first day of the season, 
in page 53 of the pretent Number.) 



On Satimlay, the 17tfa of Octo- 
ber, the hounds belonging to Wil- 
liam Jacob, Esq* of Cbale, iu the 
Isle of Wight, roused a buck at 
the foot of St. Catherine's, the 
most southern extremity of the 
island. He iirst. bent, his course 1r 
an easterly direction iar several 
miles, when finding himself bavd 
pressed, he shifted his direction 
westerly, towards Brexton^ cros- 
sed and recrossed the most heavy 
and trying part of the country, and 
finally, after a most severe run of 
four hours and a half, was taken on 
the bank of the east arm of New- 
town river, the north side of the 
said island; having in hia route 
ran a distance little short of sixty 
miles. So severe a chace is not in 
the recollection of the oldest 
Sportsman on the island. Out of 
a numerous field at starting, five 
were only present when taken, the 
others being complecely knocked 
up. Oue horse fell dead in the 
chase. To the credit of the hounds 
only three were missing. The 
buck was conveyed in a cart to 
Yaiford,thej-esidence of T. Grimes, 
Esq. where every care was taken 
of him, in order to afford anoUier 
day's amusement 

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Friday, ttie 13th instant, tbe 
hariers belonging to Mr. BecUloes, 
oi^ <Ibina LiongviUei Sluopsbire, 
were beating for a bare, when a 
fox was started at Botley Moor, 
near Felbampton ; be made bis 
way over theLongtnynd, and near 
to tbe Sti|J6rstoneBy but was then 
'headed, and turned back towards 
.Little Streston, and, after six hours 
extraordinary bard running, was 
killed near Grinatd*s Cross. 

Thur60at« tbe 12tb instant^ 
being Winebcqmb Annual Hunt, 
Gloucestershire, a singular circum- 
stance occurred during tbe morn- 
ing's sport. Whilst Mr. Ashmore's 
bariert were running a bare, a fox 
crossed tbero, whan the flogs di- 
vided, and, after a capital run with 
•acb^ they killed both. 
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Oq Monday tnorning, tbe 1 6tb 
instant, a fine hare was found in 
lier form, in the Prince Regent's 
Park, in a potatoe field, within a 
few. hundred yards of tbe New 
Rood, Faddington. Puss being 
flistarbed, took away towards Port- 
iaBd-road, down which she ran, 
pursued ; and, after a short chase, 
was killed by tbe blow of a carter's 
wliip, before she bad n^ached Ox- 
ford-street. A dispute then arose 
aa to w^ose projierty her carcase 
became, which was at length 
broogbt to issue by a shopkeeper, 
who {;ave a dollar for tbe animai, 
which was spent in porter, of 
which the whole field of sportsmen 
partook. 



secession of four of its member^ 
yras bnt thinly attended. In ad« 
dition to which, tbe adjournment 
of tbe Meeting bad, as is always 
tbe case, made tbe assemblage of 
its members uncertain. On Mon- 
day, tbe'l^tb instant, however, a 
meeting took place, and there were 
two days* sport. Some matches 
made on the spot were run, and tbe 
cup was won by Major Bower, 
-who has been tbe winner of it for 
many of tbe last meetings. Two 
new members were elected — Sir 
Charles Kent and Mr. Slingsby, 
both of whom are coursers. 



Nbwm AKKKT Coursing Meeting 
will commence oil Monday, De- 
c,ei»ber7, 1812. 



MaUcn Coursing Meeting.' 



IThis Meeting, .from tbe very indif- 
ferent state of tbe weatber^ and tbe 



The celel>rated horse Regulus 
died lately ; be was tbe sire of three 
thousand colts, that have produced 
upwanls of eighty thousand pouiuk. 

A MATCH was run on Peterbo- 
rough race-course, on Monday, 
tbe 2d instant^ between Mr. FiateFs 
Riot and Mr. Mewburn*s Caroling, 
for 100 guineas, which was wop 
easily by tbe former. 

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Extrofirdinqfy Sho t" ■ A feiv 
days ago, James Westwick^ Sir 
Henry Vane Tempest's keeper, be- 
ing in tbe gun-room at Wyoyard, 
Durham, saw a bare from the win- 
dow at some distance } at Sir 
Henry's express wish he shot tlie 
hare, at tbe surprising distance of 
155 yards. 

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A pigeon match took place on 
Monday, tbe 23d instant, on Houns- 
low-Heatb, between Messrs. How- 
lett aij<l Bimce, attateur shots, for 
50l. Tbe parties fired with double- 
barreUed guns at 'two pigeons front 
a trap, at twelve yards. Twenty 
birds were allotted to eacb,-aiHl 
Mr. Bunce won tbe match by" bag- 
ging sixteen, which was one more 
thau bi« ad\'€rsarj. 

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* At Crote-in-Hand Fair, Sussex, 
on the 19th instant^ WUiiam Ire- 
land> of fiarwash, updertook> for 
a trifiiog wager> to walk a mile, 
with a sack of wheat upon his 
back, in tWenty-two minutes, and 
performed the same with great 
ease, to the mortification of many 
-who had betted odds against him. 

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A FEW days since, Mr. Edmunds, 
miller, of Ninfield Stocks, Sussex, 
betted two guineas, that he lifted 
a sack containing five bushels of 
;wbeat from the fioor, and placed it 
upon his back, which he performed 
with great ease, and won his bet. 



Pedestrianism.-— A foot race 
was run in the afternoon of Tues- 
day, the 17th instant, on Shorne 
Clitfe, Kent, between S. Warner, 
the noted Brighton pedestrian, and 
a seijeant of the 3d Rifle Corps, 
named Deamen. The distance 
was one hundred and fifly yards 
for l^Ol. Deaman was backed by 
a gentleman at Sandgate. Betting 
6 to 2 and 3 to 1 on Warner. 
They started exactly at four, War- 
ner taking the lead till within fifty 
jards, when Deaman leaped him, 
and won by about three feet. The 
knowing ones were completely 
taken in, considerable odds having 
been taken in favour of the loser. 

A Mr. Fowler undertoe^i^ on Fri- 
day morning, the 20th instant, to 
go on foot from London to Tat- 
liog End, on the Oxford-road, and 
risturn, the whole being thirty-six 
miles, in six. hours, for a wager of 
one hundred and twenty guineas. 
He performed twelve miles within 
,th« lirst two hours, and increased 
his speed the next hour, but was 
Jbeat thjeendof the fifth hour, hav- 
ing more than eight miles to per- 
form — 'the state of the roads pro?^ 
ing an insuperable obstacle. 
/ Vol. XLi.— No. 242. .^ 



Mr. Walker, tbe pedestrian, did 
ten miles on the Clapham road, on 
Wednesday, the 29th ult, in one 
hour, and thirty-five minutes, being 
twenty-five minutes within the al- 
lotted time. 

On Friday, the 13th inst^kp^ 
Mr. G— , a gentleman of con- 
siderable celebrity at the west end 
of the town, undertook, for a 
wager of ten guineas, with a gen- 
tleman of his acquaintance^ to 
walk five miles in oue hour. The 
ground he made choice of, waa 
from and to the mile-stone' near 
Islington, to the mile-stone at the 
corner of Featherstone -street, City- 
road. Mr. G. performed the dis- 
tance with apparent ease, in fifty- 
five minutes; of course he won bis 
wager. 

Mr. East, a farmer at Holt, in 
Buckinghamshire, undertook on 
Monday, tbe 2d instant, for a wa- 
ger of fifty guineas, to go one bun* 
dred and twenty miles in thirty 
successive hours. He performed 
five miles an hour for the first tefx 
hours, and he did a hundred miles 
in twenty-five hours. Tiae pedes- 
trian performed the whole distance^ 
after much fatigue, in half an hour 
within tlie given time, having halt^ 
ed two hours on his journey. 

A sporting foot-race took place 
on Monday, the 23d instant, on 
the Bagsbot-road, between George 
Bartholomew, a Shropshire man^ 
and John Wilmot, a professed run** 
ner. The men were backed for 
one hundred guineas a side, to run 
against each other for forty mi:« 
nutes. They went off at the rate 
of ten miles an hour, ami did four, 
miles abreast of each other, in 
twenty-three minutes and ihirty- 
jiix seconds. Wilmot was evident- 
ly beat, after running thirty mi« 
antes, nnd his antagonist progres- 
sively galB^d on him, and rvmstrong 

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i«,- leaving ttie oilier three tuindred 
\(irils in ttie i°e«r, Tb« winner did 
six miles and tbree (juiirters ia the 
time. 

On Weflnesclay, the 1 1 th of No- 
vember, a tanner ot Congresbiiry, 
Soiuerset, a reniaikably cor|)u}eijt 
liiHii, uurtertook for a wager uf five 
i;uinetts, to go ou foot eight in lies 
i>i an hour. Ue failed iu bis per- 
l<>iUiance by about a minute j at 
the closa of which he was nearly 
blind^ and has since been seriously 
indii^posed. 

Bitting on the Derby, for 

1813. 

13 to I acrst theBrothertoThun. 
derbolt, by Sorcerer. 

15 to 1 agst the Brother to Pan, 
by St. George. 

15 to 1 ag9t the Orviile ooit, Out 
' <rf Nitre. 

15 to I agst the Brother to Circe, 
by Sorcerer. 

i6 to 1 agst Lord Grosvenor*g 
colt, by Meteor. 

T8 to 1 agst Alchohof, by Whis- 
key. 

20 to 1 agst SoIynian>i>y SeUui. 
The field against any seven. 

The following crrcumslatice oc- 
curred a few days ago, at Weston, 
near Otley :— *-Two young blood 
liorses, the property of Wui. Vava- 
sour, Esq. were yoked to the break- 
ing carriage, and bad been tolera- 
bly tractable Ibr some miles ; but 
on returning they became totally 
ti^manageable. When about a 
Inile ii'om the house the two men 
•were tl!rot\'n ofF, The horses stift 
proceeded, and, arriving at the 
Very high and strong iron park 
gates, which were both locked and 
bolted, they darted through, shiver- 
ing them to pieces. Still dragging 
the carriage after tbera, they thee 
gatioped Ytith the uimosl $pee4 



acrosis the park, toirards the tif€t 
wharf, into which they plttng«di 
The servants coming up, with as* 
sistance, a man, at the risk of hit 
li^, jumped in, cutthe traoes, and 
with ditticjulty, succeeded iu get- 
ting them out. Wonderful to rt* 
late, the hoi*se8 were nekher of 
them materially injured, and tiley 
are now doing well. The men es- 
caped- unhurt. 

A FArVovRLTE mare, bdongingr 
to a gentleman in Leeds,' was tbtv 
Inontb destroyed by vinegar ; wbick 
was recommended by a farrier, for 
the alledged purpose of scaling her 
milk. We insert this as a caution 
to others, how they mffer empyric» 
to tamper with the life of this use- 
ful and valuabtle ammaL 



Dbxtebity. — On the second 
4ay of the Leeds Fair, hekt this 
nwnth, a sharper contrived to dw 
tain possession of a coantrymtan's 
watch anfl to decam]> with fcis 
booty. The hue^end'^r^ being 
raised, be was )>ursned and taken 
in Albion- street, where two or 
three hundred |>eople immediately 
assentbled round the deHnquent. 
In the midst of the ^bustle, a man, 
supposed to be an accomplice,, 
mounted ou ai> old hack, without 
saddle or bridle, rode Into the midst 
•of the crowd, where be dismounte<l, 
and his fellow vaulting on to the 
horse*^s back, galloped oft* at Itili 
speed and effected bis escape, leaT- 
ing the gazing multitude to won«> 
der at his dexterity and at their 
own remissness. 



On Thursday, tlie iMt instantj. 
about two o*clock, as the proia*ietor 
of the Tavistock Hotel, Covcnt* 
garden, was sitting down to difiaer^ 
he Wb< disturbed by an unusutd 
noise made by a (Jw^^'^y ®^ fancj 
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l^geotxs he had on the top of the 
liouse* Oo his going up. stairs 
with a frieudy he saw a hawk of 
extraordinary size seize upon one 
qf theiQ, and % away with it 5 
they watched the direction he 
took, and saw him alight on the 
steeple of the New Church in the 
Strai)d : Mr. D. {the friend of the 
hotel-keeper), took his giin, and 
was permitted by a housekeeper in 
ibe Strand to go on the top of his 
house j whence he fired at the 
hawk, and it fell into tke church- 
yard. It measured three feet from 
the tip of one wing to the other, 
tweaty-two inches from the beak 
Co the tip of the tail, and sixteen 
inches in the girth. — ^A hawk paid 
It similar visit to the same hotel 
ftboiitiive years ago. 

L^TELT,^ partridge, closely pur* 
tHietl by a hawk, took refuge in a 
shop, north side of Castle-street, 
Aberdeen, W;here it readily surren- 
dered^ and is now in good keeping. 

Thb following singular ciixum* 
stance in Natural History, oc- 
curred on Monday* the l6th in* 
atant, at; HbckerelL A Swallow 
was seen flying in that town ^ but 
one cannot say that on the 1 6th of 
November, one SwaUom makeum 
'gummer. It certai nly proves, how- 
jfiver, that Swallows do not all «i- 
^rate. 

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A VERY singular circumstance 
occiirred at the Free Grammar 
School, Tewkesbury, on Friday, 
the 23d ult. | diving school hours, 
a fine young hare, untamed and 
tinpursued, ran intd the room amidst 
the boys, by one of whom poor 
yass was immediately caught. 

Mb. Edwards, bair-Aresser, at 
{lye, last suo^mtr bred, from 9^ 



pair of canary birds, twenty»t\yo 
young ones, of which he reared 
twenty-one, and fourteen of them 
proved cocks. The hen. sat. five 
times on twenty-four eggs, and 
hatched them all but two, 



Th8 well known attachment of 
the Newfoundland dog to the hu- 
man race, in cases of drowning, 
was fiisplayed alongside the Fan- 
tome jsloop of war in Hamoaze, 
lately, in a most singular manner. 
£leven sailqrs, a woman, and tlie 
waterman I had reached the sloop 
in a shore boat, when, in .conse* 
fjuenceof one of the sailors stoop- 
ing rather violently over the sid^ 
of the boat to reach his hat, which 
had fallen into the sea, the boat 
upset, and all in . it were pilunged 
into the water. A Newfoundland 
dog, on the quarter-deck of the 
Fantome, surveying the accident, 
instantly leaped amongst the un- 
fortunate- persons, and seizing one 
man by the collar of bis coat, he 
supported his bead above water 
until a boat had hastened to the 
spot, and saved all but the poor 
wateiman* whose name was Kelly. 
After delivering his burthen in 
safety, the noble animal then made 
a wide circuit . round the ship, in 
search of another, but finding no- 
thing except an oar, be took pos-- 
session of it, and was deservedly ' 
welcomed on board with the accla-t 
mations of the admiring crew. 

The Austrian Prince of Latour 
Taxis, expended last month 46,OOOl. 
in celebrating the niarriage of his 
daughter. The ceremony was 
performed at Vienna, and the fes - 
tivities were kept np near three 
weeks. On cejiain days the guests 
took the diversion olT hunting, for 
which purpose al^out fifty of the 
largest wolves that could be pro- 

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The Cobler tumtnon'd soon appear'd. 
And now the Miser's doubts were clear'd. 
The bill reluctantly he jjaid, 
Andy mingling imprecations said » 
*' Henceforth to inns I bid idieu^ 
And all their vile imposing view ; 
Should lightning, thunder, hail, or lain^ 
O'ertake me on the road again, 
Seneath some friendly hedge, I'll lie. 
And their severest rage defy. 
Or in a bam^ 09 stmw v^y bed» 
With wand'rmg Gypsies lay my head. • 

T.T. 

Cambrulge, Nov. 7> 181». 



sa 



PAST PLEASURES. 

AT foot of yonder oak-clad hill,. 
Where flows the gently gliding rllt^ 
That murmurs thto' the grove ; 
Where Zephyr plays the flowers amon|^ 
And shepherd lads attune their song, 
In ppBise of her they love : 

Wlicfe her rich perfume fragrance 

throws. 
From woodbine sweety from woodland 
rose. 
And thousand odorous flow'rs ; 
What time pale Cynthia's stiver ray, 
Jmpearls the dew-drop on the spray. 
And evening veils the hours. 

When from the duck-wove brambled 

• dcll, 
Her love Jorn lot sweet Philomel 

Deplores in pUiniive strain ; 
With Rosabella, charming maid, 
H9W oft amid these scenes I've stray'd, 

W here love dcligh ts to reign I 

How often o'er the devry gieen, 
While mornings blush adornM the 
scene. 

We've blithely tripp'd along j 
A* ri«ing from the golden corn, 
The lark, sweet minstrel of the rnorn^ 

i las wak'd her early song. 

I Io>v oft, (Vom Sol's mefidian ray, 
1'og^ether have we bent our way. 

I'u $cek the «ylvaii ^hade ; 
Where, seated 'peath the umbrageous 

bow'r. 
The Muses, to begoilf the hour. 

Have lent their pleasing aid ! 

Alas ! these joys but fleeting were, 
1^. transitory date, for tie 



Eight moons their course bad nin^ 
The vision vanish'd, hope decay'd, 
Alt pleasing views now blacken fade. 

And Ifave nie sad, undone ! 

PHILANDER. 



ON THE FLIGHT OF A TAME 
HAWK* 



[MURS'D from thine opening shell with 
tender care. 
Fondly protected from each threat'ning 
woe J 
Why didst thou, foolish hawk, thy flight 
prepare. 
Why from thy much-wrong'd inastei 
wou'dst thou gOt 

Think with what kind attention did I 
haste. 
Daily delicious morsels to convey. 
Knowing and c«eful to indulge thy 
taste. 
With entraiU, daintv food to birds of 
prey. 

Oft when ihine angiy talons wers 4tt'> 
pUy'd 
In savage wbh tormenting wv t» 
wage. 
Oft have I met their fury nndismay'd, 
Resolv'd by patteoce to repel theif 
rage. 

ResolvM thy rebel Mtufe to lubdue. 
And tame to manners mild thy ratl)leA 
breast. 
Soft winning ways I taught thee to pui^ 
sue. 
Taught thee to live caressing and ca^ 
ress'd.^ 

Thy downy poll, perch'd on his finger's 

ind. 

With gentle hand thy roaster us'd to 
pat, 
Call'd thee fond names, ** poor fellow," 
" little friend," 

Nor scorn'd to soothe thee with endear- 
ing chat. 

And when thy rufHed plumes, devoid of 
grace, 
Tarnish'd the beauty of thy pencil'd 
breast ; 
Thy master sraooth'd each feather to iu 
place. 
Or wash'd with cleansing care thy 
speckled crest. 

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JKut when disotse assaird thy little 
frame. 
And all the spirit of thine eye waf 
fled, 
iVith healing remedies thy master came. 



Safety and Victory crowning tib toil ? 
'I'is to behold on the cheek of his dear* 

est. 
Sorrows bewailing dtspenM with ft. 

smile. 



And strew'd with leaves or downy A^'hile the green laurel fe& country h 



moss ch/ bed. 

Alas! poor bird, what is thine alter'd 
&te? 
Where do«t thou wander through the 
weary space ? 
Where thine expected dinner dost thou 
wait, 
Unus'd to kill, untutoi'd to the chase. 

O ! say, what instinct prompts thee now 
to shun. 
The subtle trap or snare of wily boy ; 
How dost thou flee the death*imparting 
g«n, 
Or bird-lime twig well baited to de» 
stfoy, 

O ! stiive again thy wanderings to re- 
trace, 
fiy wisdom taught, how dreary 'lis to 
roam ; 
Haste on swift wings, thy master to cm- 
brace, 
Who sad, recalls thee to thy happiest 
home« 

J, J. B, 
Jf^ovember ll. 



weavmg, 
Deir to bis heart, tho' the joy that tt 

proyes, 
Dearer, &r dearer, the tcadff lfaaak»« 

giving, 
Br^ath'd from the i^ of the gUl Ibtt 

he loves! 



AN INVOCATION TO MAN, 
Jn Favour qf AnimaUm 

* Bv Mm. PftATr« 



<< ^ITH sw^ling poet, well sailed t^ 

. ■ thy power, 
Tia thus thou seekest whom thou may'at 

devour; 
By Heaven's high will the lowsr worio 

is thine \ 
But art thou cauat too by kiohv 

DIVINE ? 

Admit of Animals that thou hast need, 
Take the appointed forfeit— let them 

bleed: 
Yet add not to the hardships of tfaeif 

state. 
Nor join to servitude oppression's weight } 
By no unmanly rigours swell distress. 
But where thou can'st, exert thy powec 

to bless. 
Beyond thy wants 'tis baxbaioua to an- 
noy, 

WHAT nerves the soldier, when danger And but for need 'tis baseness to destroy ; 
surrounding. Still in their place let all Heaven's crea- 

tures be. 
These with their nature and their wante 

agree ; 
Tliou hast from freedAm brought them 



AIR, 

Sung by Mr, Broadhurst in the new Flarc4 
^' •* lM)e, Lawy and Physic," 



Scowls o'er the field that his valour 

mustwiQ? 
What cheers his heart, when the war- 

npte resoundiqg. 
Swells with the signal of batde's loud 

din? 



into chains^ 
Impos'd a life of penalties and pains; 



•Tis a sweet charm that. While homewaid Vet count the comfofts which their bonds 



still bending. 



supply. 



Fancy preents, and his danger i«* Then, if thoacan'st, their Biodestclaiiils 



moves; 



deny; 



•Tis a fond pray'rthen in silence ascend- More than thy wants, tlqr luxuria are 
ing, fed. 

Warm from the heart of the girl that Their flesh thy banquet, anjl their plumes 
he loves I *y bed ! 

They guard thee from the storm, defend 
What to his hope is the pleasure that's from strife, 

Bcarcst, And aid the softer vanities of life. 



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Yet Cbink bow brief their span^ how 

quickly passM, 
The transient sunshine why should clouds 

o'ercast ?'* 



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IMPROMPtU ADDRESS, 

Spoken by a Poet to his Portable ff^riting 
Desk, covered tvith Green Baize, 



"M 



Y Beak t support of all my plays. 
My odes, my sonnets, songs, and 
lays; 

Thine's a declining state, I own. 
Yet greet it with a grateful tone. 
As indeed (tho* you mayn't know it), 
Tis envied by ev'ry poet. 
For commentators most men know. 
Can, e'en in Shakespeare, errors shew. 
But now, the more men write on you. 
The less your faults appear in vieWy 
And Milton sought no greater praise. 
Than to be cover* d with green haize J 

C. P. D» 



ON THE DEATH OF G. F. COOKE, 
COMfiDIAN. 



By Billy Buskin. 



]|^ICHARD» farewell; not Garrick's 
art 

(The acme of dramatic merit) 
f^uld elevate th' ambitious part. 

Or act the King with half thy spirit ! 

Tho' given to sham pain and to whine, 
(Where, critics, is his rival, pr'ythee ?) 

Thy crook'd-back*d Dick was only thine. 
And now it is ail dickey vi\t\i thee! 

Hamlet hath said, •* How stale and flat. 
Appeared to him the world's endea- 
vour," 

Of thee the world could not say that. 
For thou wert always yrc5/i as ever ! 

Sir Archy. and Sir Pertinax 

Are with thee lost ; the Drama feels ; 
Scotland shall mourn her dead twin 
Macs; 

England regret thy Highland Reels I 

Farewell, Glejialvonf murdVous elf ! 

So well thine art with Nature strove. 
That Mimicryseem'd Nature's self, 

When thou did'st cry, ** l^is Port 1 
love !" 



logo, Kitely, Siukely^^nW 

Your essence fled wit^ C6ox&*s laJt 
breath. 
Men may expire, we Richards call, 
But Shakes pear's Richard sleeps iit 
deathf. 

More fleet than Summer's gold*edg'd 
cloud. 

An Actor's name and fanhedothbde} 
But memory hath ever vow'd. 

To stay th* impiesston Genius made! 

Cockspur-strect, Nov. 20. 



THE IRISH GHOST. 



IN days of yore, but since the flood. 

Whilst Teaoue in bed was snoring^ 
A spectie 'fore him ghastly stood, 
And woke him with its roaring. 

No nose it had, nor e'en an eye. 

Nor mouth to eat its bread ; 
And would you know the reason why, 

Alas ! it had no head ! 

With horrid gape Teague vicw'd the 
sprite. 

Then cry'd, ** Ah ! now be spakingp 
And aise nie from my sad affright. 

And tell me if I'm waking ?" 

" Arrah, my dear," the shade reply'd, 
•* I cannot 5paAr«, you know; 

But I'm thy Father's ghost, who dy*d 
Beheaded, G — d knows how !" 

*' Alack ! poor ghost !*' the son exclaim'ily 
•• No wonder thou'rt not frisky. 

For he most surely must be d d 

Who cannot dtink his whiskey." 

*' Ah ! honey, true," the sprite resumM» 
'* Therefore 1 leave the dead, 

And that I mayn't to h — 11 be dOom'd, 
l*m looking fo^ my head" 

& T. R- 



TO CLORINDA. 



CWEl^T, be not proud of those two eycs^ 
Which, star-like, sparkle in their 
skies ; 
Nor be not proud that you can see 
AH hearts your captives, your's yet free. 
Be you not proud of that fine hair. 
Which wantons with the love-sick air^ 
For that same diamond you have plac d 
Upon the girdle round your waist. 
Will last to be a precious stone, ' 

When all your worth of beauty's gone^. 



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DECEMBER, 1813. m-ccxiw. 



Mcmotrv of U)«U|te H. W. Buabojyf Esq. 

inquiry res|Mtctin| Bpsom Meeting 

l)eath ofthe Hone Boxer.i.i.. >.... . . 

Cocking at Norwich ».. 

Celebrated Horses i. \ *.. 



93 
96 
96 
99 
97 

Loath Coursing lleedng 99 

Berkeley H#ot ., tV} 

Rattle between Lancaster and Coopejr., . . 9^ 
P^tcingii for the Derbj^, Oaks^ a^d Oatlands.. lOQ 
FoQt-Race between Beal and Hunsworth .. .. loO 

laws of Betting, lacobs v. Abraham 1 0f 

Negligent Drivings Bell t. Biyant. . . .» ..102 
Ilsley, Malton, and Newioarltet Comving 

Meetihgs , > ...... 1Q9 

Idf&rranty of a Horse* Dawspn y. Grant . . .107 
Identity of a Horre, Liberty'v. Taylor . .'. . 100 

}demoirs of celebrated Pedestrians HO 

Action to recover Damages for shooting a Dog 1 10 
A Complete tist of the Wioniag Horaes in 
^1818 ,* »•» »..♦• .«.».i . »»•.. ... • * ' •?» 



CONTENTS, 

Stallions, to Cover in 1813 .*.. •-, 
Judgment for pending a Chpllepge 
The Lady at Egham tlaces . . . . 

FEAST OF WIT. 

SPOBrrmO INTELLIG^VCB .. 
To Corr«PBPn4eots - ..*... 



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128 
..134 



POETRV. 
The Sportsman^s Lament over his dead 

ter.... » 

Lines by pi^Ti4GfliTicl^ to H- Bufibniji^ 
Bellnian'* V«Eses by way of ^ologuf .. 

Th^ Old Painter's Soliloquy 

Lovely Mary t ..» 

6n Hobby Morses 

The Separation 

Sonnet 

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On Skaiting 

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MEMOIRS 

OF 

THE LATE HENRY WILLIAM 
BUNBURT.ESQ. 



(With a highly-iinished Engraving by Scott» 
from a Painting by Reynolds.) 



jD-BF£RRING our readers to a 
late number of the Magazine^ 
fpage 239, AugustJ, for Memoirs 
of Sir Thomas Charles Bunbury> 
We here preselit them with a sketch 
of the life^ invaluable qualities^ and 
distinptisbed attainments of a be* 
loved brother^ not long since de- 
ceased » to the honourable and bene-» 
volent Baronet— ^a brother who 
naturally possessed an ample por- 
tion of the family characteristics. 



and who was especially attached tq 
that noble animal, the nierits, suf* 
ferings, and general concerns ot 
which, form so considerable a pait 
of our Miscellany. 

Henry Wilham Banbury was 
educated at Westminster School, 
and finished his studies at Catlia«« 
rine Hall, Cambridge. He was 
Subsequently appointed comptroller 
of the army accounts, id which 
office he continued some years, 
but which he was ultimately in- 
duced to relinquish, by the bent oi 
his inclinations for the muses, and 
an ardent disposition to the culti^* 
▼ation of the fine arts, for which 
he discovered an early and most 
happy genius. He was once mar* 
ried^-to Catharine, the younger 
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sister of the late General tiofueck, 
a lady of great beauty and accom* 
plishmentSi who has heeii deail 
many years. This marriage pro- 
duced two sons 5 Charles, who had 
a ti'oop in General Gwyn*s regi- 
ment of Cavalry, and who died 
whilst serving in India ; and Henry 
Edward^ a Colonel in the army, 
who aote4 as Quarter-Master Ge- 
aerai at the hat tie of Maida, and 
irho, «t present, fills the employ- 
ment of Under Secrecary of State 
for the War Department. 

Mr. Bunbury*s former residence 
was at Bury St. Edmund*s, in Suf- 
folk, also at Great Barton, where 
he had a house near his brother ; 
but his visits to the lakes of Cum- 
berland and. Westmoreland had so 
impressed his susceptible imagina- 
tion with the picturesque beauties 
and grandeur of that romantic sce- 
nery, that he at length determined 
on the erection of a house at Kes- 
wick, where he could enjoy his 
favourite water and mountain 
views, daring the summer and au- 
tumnal months. He had just com- 
pleteil his buikling, and was en- 
gaged in providing the furniture, 
wheu he received that summons to 
an eternal mansion, against which 
no flesh can appeal. The solici- 
tude of a most afiectionate brother 
to remove him to Sufiblk, into the 
bosom of his family, unhappily 
proved fruitless. He died in May^ 
1811, at Keswick, having com- 
pleted the age of somewhat more 
than three score years. 

It would be difficult to fix u[x>n 
any individual of our times, who 
was more cordially esteemed and 
hdioved in the circle of his friends, 
or more generally acceptable where- 
ever he was known, than Henry 
Bunbury. He possessed indeed his 
full share of the family good na- 
ture and kindness of iieart^ which. 



in an especial manner, attrlctejt 
towards him the attachment and 
res))ect of the lower classes. Buc 
his personal character will appear 
to more advantage, ^'j^ more 
truth and exactness, as weqHs more 
warmth of delineation, w^i pro- 
ceding from the pen of an okl an<t 
most intimate friend of fifty years 
standhig : 

" He was distinguished at a very 
early age, by a most extraordinary 
degree of taste and knowledge iu 
the fine arts. The protluctious of 
his pencil have, from his child^ 
hood, been the adaxiration and de- 
light of the public. The exquisite 
humour of some of bis drawings, 
and the grace and elegance of the 
rest, were uurivalkd ; and he is 
perhaps the only instance in whiclr 
the excellence of such various and 
even opposite characters, has bee^ 
united in the same subject, iR an 
equal degree. But, tbpugh he 
possessed in this respect a peculiar 
genius, he neglected no branch of 
polite literature. He was a good 
classical scholar, and ' smtt with 
the love of sacred song.' The 
muses were to him dvlces ante 
omnia. He was an excellent j adge 
of poetry, and the specisc^en^ re- 
maining of his own composition, 
put it beyond a doubt, that ht 
would have been eminent in that 
delightful art, if his natural mo- 
desty, underrating his own poivers, 
had not prevented him from pur* 
suing it with more application. 
His social and moral qualities, 
whilst any of those remain who 
shared his friendship, will continue 
tlie o!>ject of fond admiration and 
regret. No ribaldry, no profane- 
ness, no ill-natured censure ever 
flowed from his lips, but his con* 
yersation abounded in humour and 
pleasantry j it was charming to per* 
sons of all descriptions. His feel- 

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ifigs were the most benevolent, his 
affections (be most delicate, his 
heart the most sincere. He was 
void of all affectation, alive to 
praise, hut not obtrusively courting 
it: conscious, btit not ostenta- 
tious of merit, of unblemished ho- 
nour, full of that piety which in- 
fluences the heart, and seeks the 
witness, not of this world, but of 
God. AH who had the slightest 
acquaintance with him, will bear 
witness to the extraordinary ten- 
derness of his disposition, to his 
kind and active friendship, to his 
universal benevolence, practically 
displayed throughout the whole of 
his terrestrial existence.'* To these 
really characteristic traits, which 
Lave been selected from known 
and good authority, need only be 
added — he loved the social en- 
joyment of the bottle, with bis 
friend. 

The caricature drawings of Bun - 
l)ury, have long since passed the 
ordeal, and received the full sanc- 
tion of public approbation. The 
reality of his genius had a profes- 
sional voucher, whose ability to 
decide no one will be disposed to 
controvert. On its first appear- 
ance. Sir Joshua Keynolds declared 
to a friend, that Mr. Bunbnry's 
Barber's Shop, was one of the best 
drawings he had ever seen, and 
that it would be admired in every 
age and every country. He had 
indeed, powerfully attracted both 
the attention and the admiration 
of those sovereign jndges of nature 
and genias, Garrick and Reynolds. 
— He was truly an original, and 
that principle of the vis comica, 
with which his mind was naturally 
impressed, as well as his style and 
manner of execution, were pecu- 
liarly his own. He possessed the 
magic power with his pencil, to 
touch the chords of risibility in 



every human breast^ where such 
existed ; and to draw forth instan-' 
taueous and congenial sensations. 
He was, from nature, so complete' 
a master of the res ludicra, that,i* 
whatever his )>encil intended for a^ 
burlesque, must inevitably prove 
such to every human eye— ^u in- 
dubitable test of genius, and in., 
some sort independent of technical 
precision in the execution. On| 
this ground, doubtless, the judg-^ 
ment of Sir Joshua Reynolds rest- 
ed. Genuine irresistible humour 
flowed also through the pen, as 
well as the pencil of Bunbury, as 
every reader imbued with a mode- 
rate portion of the animal risibite,^ 
will And himself involuntarily ready 
to acknowledge, on a perusal of the 
sage directions for bad horsemen, by 
Professor Geoffrey Gambado. Iii 
the same ludicrous style, was aii 
intended publication^ intituled^ 
" Familiar Letters, or. Morsels 
for merry and melancholy Mortals," 
a considerable part of which was 
actually set np, in a printing office 
at Ipswich, by order of Mr. Bun- 
bury, during his residence there; 
with bis regiment, in 1795, being 
then Lieutenant-Colonel of the 
West Suffolk 'Militia. In this 
collection of ' laugh and be fat,' the 
well-known Jonathan Aldham, of 
Manningtree, that most renowned 
of punches, and the companion c^ 
Rigby, Thurlow, and Garrick, 
makes a most conspicuous figur^. 
The book, however, never appear- 
ed, being neglected on the Colo- 
nel's leaving Ipswich, in the same 
way, probably, that many similar 
bagatelles, commenced from the 
whim of the moment, were soon 
after laid aside. This is given on 
the authority of Mr. Squire, the 

i>rinter, at that time resident in 
[pswich. 
Id the delineation of picturesque 
« N 2 and 



fl» 



tH* feK>Ktm& MAekZJKfe 



H'hi mbiiMkin uientfy, "he drevir 
witli the band of a master : his 
J»erfonn^nces oJF that kind are full 
of eritbiisiastti, nature, and taste, 
tftid extremely valued by their pos- 
tessors. This, it may be safely 
^averred, will ever be the Case with 
his w6rks in general, of which it 
is regretted t^t a list cannot here 
be given, accompanied with speci- 
mens of his poetical talent ; noth 
which desiderata it is intended to 
supply on some future occasion. 
tJntil which can be performed, it 
inust suffice to state, that his Royal 
Highness the Commander in Chief 
is in possession of a number of 
Volumes, containing the greater 
part of tlie labours of Mr. Bun- 
bury*s pencil ; and that the rooms 
of the Hall at Great Barton, and 
of the house in PalUMall, are or- 
namented with very numerous and 
Exquisite proofs of his diligence, 
as well as his geniuc, in that charm- 
ing avocation. 

SN<lUIRT ftSaPECTlNG £PSOM 

MEETING. 

lb the 'Editor of the Sporting Ma^ 
gazine, 

SFX, 

TN arfswcr'to your " Constant 
^ReaO^h," respecting the num- 
her of hordes, &c. that started for 
thel!)erby and Oaks Stakes, thrs 
year at Epsom, I have to say, that 
i received two lettei*s from re- 
spectable friends, who Were pre- 
'Setif at the races, and when com- 
'pared, were exactly agreeable with 



me to e^femifie with Mr. W^a^lffifr- 
by*k Sheet Calendar, No: 4, Mid 
tiie account therein ^vett agrees 
ib number ^itb the Sporting Jffl- 
gazke, and wfthoUt frny varis^iton 
of 'thfe horses, 8tr.*-Fi'om these 
circuttiKthnccs, I atti led ty> Mievfe 
that they are perfectly 'correct. — ^1 
am. Sir, your's, &c. 

W. P. 



DEATH OF THE HOtfSE BOXER- 

To the Editor of the Sporting Jfra- 
gazine, 

SIR, 

AGREEABLE to the request 
made in your Sporting Maga^ 
zine of Septemberlast, I bejj: to in- 
form you, the grey horse Boxbk, 
got by King Herod, dam by Blank, 
died August, 1798, in the posses- 
sion of the present Lord Rivers, 
at that period the Honourable 
George iPitt. — ^T remain. Sir, your 
obedient humble servant, 

Chas. S£AL. 
StrMtfieleUavt Berifard 'Bridge, BaniSy 

P. S. If you think it worthy yoUr 
notice, I beg to add his Lordship's 
black dog Holla, died Jantiary, 
1811. We certainly was the best 
greyhouiid'bf his day. 



COCKING AT NGfRWICH. 



To the Editor of fthe SjMfrHng Ma- 
gazine, 
srR, 

each other ; namely, fourteen ^T^B'third yfear's grand fiialn of 



started for the Derby, arid twelve 

for the' Oaks, U copy of which 'I 

sent aud appeared in70Ur Number 

f^Ji^r- May last. — Your note tl)at I 

> received on the l!2th instaut, c^itised 



eocks, between the gentlemen 

of the CowUties of NorfoML 'ami 

Cattibrirtge, will positively ti»ke 

place at the Sw^anlnUj-dt Koruicb, 

^bn tht ^»th,' !i(Jfli, wid 42f7tti Aiys 

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l>f January, 1B13. iTbty at* to 
ifg^ tracer tbe'safne H»>n<)ilA(ffit m 
y&Ht y^ar, &nil which m^cte |>fiven in 
the Sporting Magaxine for Decem-r 
ber, 1811.-^ am, Sir^fcc. 

S. 



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CELEBRATED HOUSES. 



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'THERE art two hordes aft present 
in the possession of Colonel 
Way, of the 2^h regiment, wliose 
histories are well deserving the pen 
of the biographer :— -One of them 
is calleii Suwarrow, and the other 
Black Jack — the former \«'as onc^ 
•the property of tlie Grand Vizier 
"of the Turkic Empire, who hav- 
ing been billed in battle, this nabKs 
animal was taken by the enemy 
and became tbe favourite charger 
of the great Russian General Field 
Marshal Count Suwarrow, who for 
Lis gatlanC condudt in Italy was 
sumamedltalinsld; after tbedeath 
of that illustrious commander, "Su- 
warrow wa^ brought to England 
by the fto^sian Ambassador, who 
gave him to Lord Sheffield, and 
bis Lordship has -lutely presented 
liitn to 'bis iiepfaew Colonel Way. 
Black Jack iformerly belonged to 
the Honourable C!olonel Augustas 
Xake, of 'tbe'lipth regimeift, who, 
•at tbe section of Rdleia, in Portu- 
gal, lent blm to Colonel Way, bat 
the hone he ^wcfs himself mounted 
on having been killed by a cannon 
ball in tbe beat of the battle. Co- 
lonel Way returned btm to Colonel 
I«ake ; shortly after this. Colonel 
ilialLe ^as 'kUbd -by^a nniBketf bot 
while gallantly 'ii^bting^ at the bead 
>«f the 119th grenadiers, iind Black 
Jaek was taken ptrisontfr, and lie- 
came the property of a French- Ge- 
neral^ itOfUk wb(NB -CofaMiel Way 



bought him ftcion after tbe memor* 
able coDwecitfon of Cintra, and baa 
since rode him at the battles of tbe 
IXouro, Bnsato, Talavera, and AU 
b«^-a, at the last xvf which tbe Co* 
lonel having been severely wound*- 
*d, this fine changer namowJy es* 
^cafied being a second time taken - 
prisoner by the French. Su wan- 
row aiid Black J^ck havt entirely 
recovered from the 'fatigues of mac, 
and have contrarted the striclegt 
friendship for each dtber, and dis- 
cover, by neighing and restlessness, 
the greatest impatience when for a 
moment separated. It is recorded 
of the ttrnnan Emperor Helioga- 
baliis, thart he was so passianal€!ly 
fond of one of bis horses, that tft 
actually created bim Consal of 
Rome, and gave him a stately pa- 
lace, with a niagniiircent aet of 
apartments, richly furnished, and 
a suite df household of^cers and 
attendants to wait on him ; we 
question wbether the generous 
steeils whose histories we have 
above recounted are not more de- 
serving of such high honours than 
the horse 'of that luxurious and os- 
tentatious Em^p€iror. 

XOUTH COURSING MEETING. 
TUESDAY, NOV. J/. 

Bitches drawn to run for the Cup, 

|lif R. Edward Holland's yellow 

bitch Julia, beat Mr. Har- . 
grave's black bitch Pin. 

Mr. Adam Eve's red bitch Du- 
chess, beat Mr. William Foster's 
brindled hitch Tricksey. 

Mr. Jones's red and white bitch 
Trippett, beat Mr. Sketchley's bitch 
Sly. 

Mr. Rinder*8 black. and white 
bitch Myrtle,- heat Mr. Thomas 
Grant's red bitch Fleet ' ^'S«a . 

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Mr. Taylor's black and wbite 
VHch Dainty, beat Colonel Kittg*t 
black bitch lAfiy. 

Mr. Simpson's tannecl bitcb 
Kate, beat Mr. Bartholomew's 
blue bitch Mouse. 

Sir Charles Kent's brindled bitch 
Whimsey, heat Mr. Kent's tanned 
bitch Sly. 

Mr. William Cartwrigbt's white 
bitch Patch, beat Mr. Chaplin's 
fed and white bitch Dainty. 

Eleven nMtehes off. 

THUBSDAT, NOV. Ip. 

Bitches drawn to run for the Cvp, 

Mr. Simpson's tanucd hitch 
Kate, l)eat Mr. Jones's red and 
white bitch Trippett. 

Mr. Adam Eve's red hitch Du- 
chess, beat Mr. Cartwrigbt's white 
bitch Patch. 

Mr. Edward Holland's yellow 
bitch JiUia, heat Sir Charles Kent's 
brindled bitch Wbimsey. 

Mr. Taylor's black and white 
bitch Dainty, beat Mr. Rinder's 
blacl^ and white hitch Myrtle. 

Matches. 

Mr. Chaplin's red and white dog 

Trickett, heat Mr. KirkbRn^s black 

and white dog Driver, one guinea. 

Mr. Chaplin's red and white 

'bitch Trippett, beat Mr. Kirkham's 

# white hitch Sylvia, one guinea. 

FBIDAY, NOV. 20. 

Matches, 

Mr. Richardson's dun hitch 
Mouse, beat Mr. Adam Eve's 
black hitch Fly, one guinea. 

Mr. Richardson's black dog Re- 



Mr* Chaplin's red and wiirt^ 
bitch Trickett, beat Mr. Richard-- 
son's brindled dog Herod 3 oue 
guinea, 

Mr. Chaplin's bitch Tricksey, 
beat Mr. John Grant's red aud 
white hitch Helen ; one guinea. 

Mr. Thomas Grant's dun dog 
Spanker^ beat Mr. Richardson's 
white dog Smoaker, 

Mr. Simpson's white hitch La- 
dy, heat Mr. Rinder's black and 
white dog Chance} onegninea. * 

Mr. Chaplin's white dog Rapid, 
beat Mr. Rindt*r's hitch Lady ^ 
one guinea. 

Mr. Chaplin's white dog Racer, 
beat Mr. Richardson's black dog 
Claret; one guinea. 

Mr. Thomas Grant'& red hitch 
Helen, against Mr. Simpson's brin- 
dled hitch Fly 3 one guinea.*— Un- 
decided. 

SATURDAY, NOV. 21. 

Bitches drawn to run for the Cupk. 

Mr. £<lward Holland's yellow 
bitcb Julia, heat Mc. Taylor's 
black and white hitch Dainty. 

Mr. Simpson's tanned hitch 
Kate, l)eat Mr. Adam Eve's re<i 
hitch Duchess. 

Matches. ^ 
Mr. Charles Kent's black bitcj» 
Cora, beat Colonel Icing's yellow 
bitch Smart ; one guinea. 

Sir Charles Kent's yeUow bitcb 
Maiden, lieat Colonel King's black 
dog Sturt ; one guinea. 

Mr. Thomas Grant's dim dog 
Spanker, against Mr. Wm. Cart- 
wright's red bitch Sting ; one gut- 



gent, heat Mr. Adam Eve's black nea.— No course. 



dog Jethro, one guinea. 

Mr. Richardson's black dog 
Samson, heat Mr. John Grant's 
yellow dog Spring ; one guinea. 

Mr. Richardson's black dog He- 
rod, heat Mr. Sketchley's black 
hitch Fly ; one guinea. 



Mr. Chaplin^s red bitch Trifle, 
beat Colonel King's black bitch 
Lady ; one guinea. 

Mr. Sketchley's black dog Sol- 
tau, heat Mr. Oldham's brindled 
dog Castor; one guinea. 

Mr. Oldham's brindled, dog PoU 

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luic, against Mr. Thomas Grant's 
yeljf^w and white ilog Nelson ', od9 
guinea. — Undecided. 

Mr. Infett's red and white dog 
Teaz'em, against Mr. Adani Eve, 
juQ.*s black dog Spring; one gui- 
nea. — :No course. 

Mr. CbapUu's red and wbiti 
' bitch Dainty, against Mr. Simp- 
son's white bitch Lady 5 one gui- 
nea. — No course. 

Sir Charles Kent*s brindled bitch 
Whiinsey> heat Colonel King's 
blue dog George ; one guinea. 

Mr. Thomas Grant's red and 
whit« iU^g Racer, beat Mr. Simp- 
son^s brindled bitch Fly; one 
gnin^a. 

Mr. Chaplin's red dog Creamer, 
beat Mr. Simpson's white bitch 
iPly 5 on* guinea. 

Sir Cbarles Kent's brindled bitch 
Whirasey, beat Colonel King*« 
hliie dog George ; one guinea. 

Mr. Meredith's black bitch Fly, 
"beat Mr. Thos. Grant's red and 
^bite hitch l^ly $ one guinea. 

Deciding Match for the Cup. 
Mr. Simpson's tanned bitch Kate, 
beat Mr. £dward Holland's yellow 
bitch Jc!lia. 



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BERKELEY HUNT. 

/^N Tuesday, December 22, the 

Berkeley fox-hounds threw off 

at Out-field, Cbaltbnt St. Peters^ 

where they instantly unkennelled 

Reynard, and went off close at his 

brush through the grounds of Mr. 

Foster 3 then turning to the left 

across the Chalfont river, and the 

high road leading to Aylesbury, 

over Chalfont Common, leaving 

Newlahds to the left for Hornhill, 

-making direct for Mr. Sedgwick's 

-earths, to High Ash, through the 

inclosures.of Richard Tayler, Esq. 



into Pbillips Hill Wood, where he 
had no other alternative but being 
either killed or facing the open 
country; from thence he pushed 
to Chorley Wood Common > and 
Loudwater, there seeming to hid 
detiance to this superior pack, he 
crossed the Loudwater RijKcr, leav- 
ing Croxley Green coverts to tb« 
right, thence to Red Heath, thro* 
the long chain of coverts to Cas- 
hiobury Park, where the hounds 
ran into him after au excellent run 
of two hours and six minutes. 



PUGILISM. 



T^HE match between Lancaster, 
the pugilist, who fought Hoi- 
loway, the Battersea gardener, a 
few months since, and George 
Cooper, a navigator, and a promis- 
ing candidate for renown on the 
fighting list, took place on Tues- 
day, December 15, agreeable to 
appointment, at Coombe Wood; 
where Richmond, Silver thorne, 
and others, had before exhibited. 
Whether Lancaster anticipated de- 
feat from his sturdy adversary re- 
mains a secret, but \xq showed with 
seeming reluctance about an hour 
after the appointed time. The 
combatants stripped and set-to in 
good trim, with Richmond and 
Jones secoads to Cooper, and 
Cropley and Lancaster, sen. for 
Lancaster. 

In the first round a rally was 
commenced by Lancaster, who 
planted a hit on Cooper's head, 
which was half stopped, and the 
latter returned the hit with a vio* 
lent blow on his adversary's neck, 
with which he went down. In the 
second round Lancaster planted a 
left-haoded hit on his adversary's 
nose, hut he failed to lunge at the 
tame time with the riglit hand, and 

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be was bit bard in the throat ag^in. 
During the figbr, Lancaster made 
but little use of his right hand; 
and from the steady composed 
fighting of Cooper, he had great 
advantage, under the tuition of 
Bichmond, in parrying with the 
right bami, and lunging at the 
same time with the left, which 
also seemed with hhh most offen- 
sive. 

After a sharp contest of seven- 
teen minutes and a half. Cooper 
won the battle, having received 
some smsrc hits about the head^ 
but not to be compared with those 
received by bis adversary. Lan- 
caster bad superior length and equal 
weight with his adversary, and al- 
though be Stood over him, yet "he 
b;ul to combat with a steady two- 
handed fighter, who bad ac<piired 
science sufficient to parry and re- 
turn with briskness, which must 
maintain itself against a one- 
handed fighter of ecpial weight. 

The next mill, which closed the 
diversion, was at the bull, where 
Moiters Gibbons and Baldwin con- 
ducted the elegant pastime to the 
amusement of some hundreds of 
amateurs. Two or three buffers 
were out and outed by the hardness 
of the ground. 



BEFflNaS. 

^ETTINGS for the Derb^ and 
'^ Oaks $tiik«8 af Epaoti, and 
Oa(Iaud« Scakes, at Newiuark«t. 

DEttsr. 

13 to 1 against Lord Grosvenor*3 

Meteor colt. 

14 to 1 agst Brother to Thunder- 

bolt. 

14 to 1 agstSoIyman. 

15 to 1 agst Brother to Pan. 

^5 to 1 a^st Lo-rd Egremont's 
colt out cff tjerissa. 



16 to 1 iigst Alcohol. 

>7 to 1 agst Lord Foley's cok^ 

OAK8. 

g to 1 agst Vale Royal. 
10 to 1 agst any other. 

OATLANDS. 

JOQO to 20 has been bf tted many 
times over against naming the 
wioners of the several clasaea. 



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FOOT BACE. 

JOSEPH Beal,ofWelbani Moor- 
bouses, near Castte Howard ^ 
who ran Isaac Hunswort^, of I^l« 
ton, Lancashire, in September, 
181 1, two miles, over Knayesmire^ 
and heat bira considerably! wm 
challenged by tbeliancaslHreroan to 
run again two miles for 100g9 a side. 
The second contest tooK place on 
Monday, tbeSOtb nit. over Knavear 
mire. About one o'clock tbey 6tart-> 
«<!; and kept nearly together £of 
the first mile, «'ben Beal past bis 
adversary, kept the lead, and com- 
pletely jdistanced him, coming in 
with wonderful speed. Th^ two 
miles were run in 10 minutes, 2^ 
seconds. Beal is only 20 years of 
age, 5 feet seven inches high, and 
weighs about Qst. 5lb. Huns worth 
is 30 years of age. The betting at 
starting was 6 and 7 to 4 on the 
Yorksbireman. This second match 
had excited oncomraon interest^ 
«and bets to a coiiai<lerabie amoiiaC 
were madeon it. An immense con* 
course of people from the neigh* 
bonrboods of cbe res|)ecHve parties^ 
as weH as from York and its vici- 
nity, attended to see the race. 
The ground was exceedingly heaT^» 
and very mneh against the pede»- 
-trians. The traiaerawereidr. Wal- 
kington, of Thornton-Clay, for jIq- 
aeph Befl4, and Mr. Benjamin SdUo- 
BM, fot lsa«ic H«as worth. 

LAWS 



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idi 



Laws of betting. 

jtott dose tried in, the Court ofJSSng's JBench^ 
GuHdhail^ Tueaiay^ Zkc^ Z, before Lord 
Cktef Jiutic£ JEUenborough. 



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Jacobs V. Abrahams* 

[IS ;ivas an action for money 
had and received to the plain- 
tiff^s use, and brought against the 
defendant as the stake-holder of a 
wager laid upon a trotting horse. 
The parties were both of the 
Jewish persuasion, and meeting 
some other sporting characters of 
the S9me tribe, at a public-house in 
Duke*8-place, in May last, a bet of 
twenty guineas was mad^ by the 
plaintifi; upon a horse belonging 
to a person of the name of Lee, 
the terms of the vir^gcr being, that 
tlie horse in question should trot 
eleven miles an hour in harness. 
In the course of the evening, other 
be^s were made to the same effect, 
amounting together to .811. which 
it was agreed should be deposited 
in the hands of the defendant, 
until the match should be decided. 
In the month of June, the parties 
again met at the same public- 
hocise> for the purpose of making 
good the bets, when the plaintiff 
<leposited 8ll. in the hands of the 
defendant, the match being ap- 
pointed to take place in a day or 
t wo after. Some altercation, how- 
ever^ arose upon the event of the 
horse getting into a gallop, and a 
discussion took place upon the 
(juestionf whether, in that case, 
the horse should be turned round, 
or pulled up to a stop, when the 
plaintiff declared off the wager^ 
and demanded his stakes back, but 
this the defendant refused^ de- 
claring it a bet, and that the win- 
ner .should have the money. No- 
tice was afterwards served on the 
defendant by the plau)tiff*s attor* 
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ney, that he wouM not abide tte 
wager> and requiring him to return 
the deposit, otherwise an action 
would be brought against him. 

The Solicitor-General for the 
defendant, * stated',* that the real 
facts of the case had been kept 
quite out of sight, and were these : 
— Mr. Jacobs, the plaintiff, having 
been s^ttending as an amateur, at 
one of those elegant and accom- 
plished amusements called prize<* 
fighting, and on his return meet** 
ing Mr. Lee in his gig, driving 
this rip of a horse (as he termed 
it,) as in truth, from his appear- 
ance, he was not a horse for going 
a hunting with the hounds, but 
for the hounds to hunt after, pro<^ 
posed a wager $ but Lee was not 
such a fiat as to take a bet with 
Mr. Jacobs in that way 3 the parties 
met at the public-house in Duke's- 
place, on the 13th of May, when 
an actual agreement in writing 
was entered into between the par- 
ties, and in June the money was 
deposited in the hands of the de« 
fendant. In. the mean time, Lee 
had gone to some trouble and ex« 
pense in practising the horse, and 
getting him into a proper condi-* 
tion for the race. The learned 
Solicitor-General held, that in all 
cases of wagers, where the bet 
was not made good by a specifie 
period, the deposit money became 
forfeited ; so, when the wager was 
actually made by depositing the 
amount, the party could not recal 
it, but must abide the event. He 
was proceeding, when 

Lord Ellenborough interfered, 
observing that it was always held 
in point of law, that a person mak- 
ing a bet, might by a countermand 
at any time previous to the wager 
being determined, put an end to 
the contract. 

The Solicitor-General submitted 
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IP the (toelme Mil by the Coqrt, riage grazed the forrmost' horse^ 

find the Jury> undkr the direction broke the traces^ and threw down 

^f hU Lordship, found a ¥erdict the shaft horse, with thei;art, the 

for the pUintitf. — Qdmagea 8ll? contents of which latter w^re pre- 

%ad C9Sts. cipitated intd the road, and noaC 

of the ale and beer bottles broken j 

;■■ ■ ' .. "J" '• " . I" . »•" ' ■' the shaft-horse, in struggling to 

_ _ reffttiD bis feet. Ml a second lime 

NEGLIQENT DRIVING. on the broken bottles, and bis side 

- ^ M ^ , a»d thigh Wire so dre«diutly laoe- 

Jn Jctz<m irUd m the CouH 4 Ph* ,,ted, that, notwithstanding the 

Bench, Tkursda^f, Dec. 3, bejore Lo»d immitdiate assistance of a farrier, 

ChitfJuaice E Uenbara ugh, ^^ ^ileil to death in less than twenty 

■"^ V minutes after the accident. In the 

BeU «. Bryant. noean time attempts were made te 

'THIS was an tction brought to atop the driver q€ the chaise 5 but 

recover compensation in dama- upon discovering the mischief be 

ges for an injury sustained by Ihe had committed, he leaped from 

plaintift^ in consequence of the n^-t the chaise upon the splinter-bar, 

iigence of the defendant's servant, and drove off so fast that he could 

4n carelessly driving bis chaise. not be overtaken, but was at last 

. The fklaintiff was a poor and in* traced to tlieyard of the defendant, 

dustrious green grocer, residiug at in the Haymarket, where the 

Kentish Town, and the defendant chaise aud horses were recognised, 

a considerable post-coach and horse and he admitted the fact the fol- 

owner in the Haymarket. The lowing day. All these facts were 

plaintiff was in the habit of attend- fully proved by several eye-wit- 

ing the diierent fairs in the vici- nesses to the transaction, all of 

aity o.f the metropolis, with a cart whom attributed the sole blame to 

of porter, ale, and other provisions, the negligence- of the defendant's 

Qind for this purpose was proceed- servant. 

ing with his cart and horses kden Mr. Parke, in addressing tlui 

with his accustomed store, in the Jury o^ the part of the defendant, 

dusk of the evening, between eight observed, that however innocent 

and nineo*clock, on the 3d of Sep- his client might be in this transac- 

tember last, through Kentish- tion, yet lie admitted he was per- 

Town, towards Barnet fair, when sonally responsible for the miscon • 

he was met by a return chaise of duct of his servant. He repro- 

the delendanl's driving furiously bated, in strong and impressive 

towards town, the driver being in-* terms, the conduct of persons of 

«uie tbe chaise with two other per- this description, through whose 

sons— the road was suflficieutly carelessi>ess so many serious acci- 

bi'oad for three carriages to pass dents occurred, and had advised 

abreast, and before be reached his client not to call this driver as a 

within twenty yards of the plain- witness, as in that case he, would 

tiff's cart, tlie (h*iver of the latter be obliged to give him a release, 

bailuoed out to him } but, regard- hut to suffer a verdict to go against 

kss.oftbis caution, he coucinued hiiu, in order that be might reco- 

to drive at the same furious rate, ver Hgainst this man, as an exam- 

when the 'hindowheel of Che- c^ir- j)le and warning, to others, and 

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therefore declined making any de- 
fence. 

He then pat in a bill of particn- 
lars in the plaintiff's hand-writing, 
furnished at the tinae tbe parties 
had proposed to accommodate the 
matter, and in which be changed 
the loss be had sustained as amount- 
ing altogether to 141. 17s. 6d. 

Tbe Solicitor-General, in reply, 
observed, that, unfortunately for 
the public safety, there were clubs 
of post-cbaise drivers, qoach-driv- 
ers, dray-drivers, &c. who, in cases 
of this kind, always indemnified 
brother whips for any expenses 
they might incur, so that it was 
no punishment to the individual 
"when be had to pay for the damage 
sustained by his carelessness ; but 
he sincerely wished, that in all 
c«ses tliat would permit of it, the 
party should be criminaliy prose^ 
cuted, and then tbe public would 
nee whether any one of them would 
he willing to go to gaol for his 
Mlow. In estimating tbe dama- 
ges tbe Jury were not bound by 
the paper which had been jiist put 
jn, hut would also take into their 
consideration, all the loss and in- 
convenience arising to the plaintiff 
from the accident, and thereupon 
give him a full, fair, and ample 
compensation. 

liord Ellenborough observed, 
that the only question was, as to 
the quantum of damage — ^and al- 
though, generally speaking. Juries 
gave no more than the plaintiff 
oiighially demanded, yet in such a 
case as this, his Lordship thought 
the party should be put in the same 
situation which he was in before 
the acctd«nt occurred^^in this case 
the plaintiff was disappointed of 
his little prospects of profit which 
he deriveil from attending those 
fairs, «nd the Jury were at liberty 

ia their discr&oo^ to give soo^e- 



lot 

thing beymid th« aetitel daikiage b« 
had sustained in the loss of fajbi 
horse and commodities. * 

After a short deiiheration th^ 
Juiy found a verdict for the plaint 
tifil— Damages 25l. and costs. 



COURSING MEETINGS. 

ILSLEY, BERKS. 

jyjATCH 1.— Mr. Thornbiirs 
Thalia^ beat Mr. Nelson** 
Niobe. 

Match 2.— Mr. Isherwood's Gyp*^ 
sey, beat Mr. Davenport's Dermot. 

Match' S.^Mr. PbiUi^>s's Jump- 
er, beat Mr. B. Morland's Maxim. 

Match 4.— Coi. Stead's Darlings 
beat Mr. Gopdluck's Glory. 

Match 5.— Mr. Duffield's Du- 
chess, beat Mr. F. Craven's Croker. 

Match §.— Mr. Hay ward's Heb<^^ 
heat Mr. Bunce's Bonny. 

Match 7. — Mr Jones'^ Jewels 
b«at Dr Mitford's Maddock. 

Match 8.— Mr. Hailett's Furze- 
bush, beat Mr. Longls Lark. 

Mr. Isherwood's Gypsey, beat 
Mr. Thornbiirs Thalia. 

C6l. Stead's Darling, beat Mrv 
Phillips*s Jumper. 

Mr. Hayward's Hebe, beat Mr. 
Dufiield's Dachess. 

BIr. Jones's Jewel, beat Mr. HaU 
lett's FiiTzebush. 

Col. Stead's Darling,^ feeat Mr* 
Isberwootrs Gypsey. 

Mr. Jones's Jewel, beat Mrl 
Hayward's Hebe. 

Col. Stead's Darling, beat Mr» 
Jones's Jewel. 

This meeting bids fair to vie. 
with most others in England, in 
point of sport and amusement, 
the country is so admirably adapt- 
ed to coursing; the neighbourhood 
so respectable. Messrs. Diindas, 
Steadj Bagon, Hallett, and many 

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other tportsnaeDj are uDreroittiogly 
^Miduout in promotiog this gentle^ 
manly diversion. The Craven fox- 
bounds regularly hunt twice during 
the meeting, iu the neighbouring 
covers, when the lovers of the 
chase are ec^ually amused with the 
amateurs of coursing. The com- 
pany, which usually exceeds two 
hundred, are most admirably en- 
tertained with every delicacy of 
the season, and the most choice 
wines, at the Swan Inn, Hares 
«re becoming very numerous in 
that and the adjoining manor, 
through the great pains and atten- 
tion which Wm. Morland^ Esq. 
and H. Hemsted, Esq. have paid 
to their preservation, from the far- 
mers and other unqualified persons, 
who for some years past had nearly 
destroyed the breed. 

The next meeting is fixed for 
the third week in November^ 1813, 
when a cup of 50gs. value will be 
run for. 



MALTON. 

Tuesday, November 17.'— For 
the Cup— First Class. 

Major Bower's hi. b. Blackmaid^ 
beat Mr. Best's hi. b. Queen. 

Mr. Hill's brindled dog, Spanker, 
beat Sir Thomas Slingsby's blue h. 
Myrtle. 

Mr. Harrison's b1. and w. b. Fly, 
beat Sir Thomas Slingsby's bl. b. 
Serpent. 

Mr. Harrison's y. and w. b. 
Cora, bea.t Mr. Best's bl. d. Ha- 
zard. 

Mr. Best's bl. h. Sylph, beat Mr. 
Hill's bl. d. Smoker. 

Major Bower's bl. b. Beauty, 
beat Major Bower's bl. b. Blue- 
{naici. 



MATCHES. 
Pott patchy bonafidtyfor Puppies, 

Major Bower agst Major Top<« 
ham. 

Major Bower agst Major Top- 
ham. 

Major Topbam pid forfeit. 

POST MATCH. 

Mr. Hill agst Major TophaiM. 
Mr. Hill agst Major Topbam. 
Major Topbam paid forieit. 

POST MATCHES, bona fide. 

Mr. Thorold agst Mr. Best. 

Mr. Thorold agst Mr. Best. 

Mr. Thorold paid forfeit. 

Sir F. Boynton agst Major Top- 
ham— Off. 

Sir F. Boynton agst Major Top- 
ham. — OS, 

Wednesday, November 18. — ^For 
the Cup. — Second Class. 

Major Bower's bl. b. Blackmaid, 
beat Mr. Harrison's bl. and w. b. 
Fly. 

Mr. Best's bl.b. Sylph, beat Mr. 
Hill's brindled d. Sjianker. 

Major Bower's bl. b. Beauty, 
beat Mr. Harrison's y. and w. b, 

Cora. 

MATCHES. 

FMi Matches^ bona fide. 

Major Bower's bl. w. b. Bounty, 
beat Mr. Best's hi. d. Hazard. 

Major Bower's bl. b. Blackmaid, 
beat Mr. Best's y. and w. b. Vesta. 

Sir T. Slingsby's blue and w. d. 
Damon, agst Major Bower's bl. d. 
Bailiff. — Undecided. 

Sir T. Slingsby's bl. b. Serpent, 
agst Major Bower's bl. and w. b. 
Bounty.— -Off. 

Third and last Class for the 
Cup. 

Major Bower's bl.b. Beauty •. X 
Major Bower's bl. b. Blackmaid 3 
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Sweepstakes for a piece of plate^ Captain Wyatt*s b(k. and w. d, 

▼alue 5gs. p. X Janus, agst Admiral Wilson's 

Mr. Best's bl. b. Queen 1 blk. d. p. Ujwtart.— Capt. WyatJ 

Major Bower's bi. d. Young beat. 

BUckboy 2 Mr. Merest*s blk. b. p. Omnia^ 

8ir T. Sling«by*s bl. b. Serpent. . 3 agst Mr. Wilkinson's blk, d. p. 

P. S. Owing to the badness of Zoro. — Paid forfeit. ' ® 

tbeweather, the meeting was thinly Lord Rifers's blk. and w. b. p. 

attended ; there were many excel- Ro^^alana^ agst Sir P. Blake's bl. h. 

lent courses^ and the bares ran p. Endor. — Sir P. Blake heat, 

^tout, Mr. James's bl. b. a. Indolent, 

' " '■ agst Mr. Page's blk. b. a. Bessy.— 

Mr. Page beat. 

NEWMARKET. jyj^. Jones's blk. b. a. Jet, agst 

The Newmarket Coursing Club Admiral Wilson's blk.b. a. Useful, 

assembled on Monday mornings — Admiral Wilson beat, 

the 7th instant, very numerously. Captain Wyatt's bl. d. a. X. 

and notwithstanding the setting in Junius, agst Sir P. Blake's blk. d. «« 

of the frost, tliey had fine sport Eaglet. — Captain Wyatt beat, 

that day, running the following Adro. Wilson's blk. b. a. Union, 

matches in a fine style. The con- against Mr. R. Hamond's bl. b. p. 

tinuance of the frost, however, ren- SI i pper. — Admiral Wilson paid for- 

dered it necessary to adjourn the feit. 

week's sport till more favourable Mr. Gurney's blk. b. a. Airy, 

weather. agst Admiral Wilson's blk. b. a* 

FIRST CHEVELEY FIELD. Una. — Off by consent. 

Captain Wyatt's blk. d. p, X Mr. Tyssen's br. b. a. Trap, agst 

Johnny, jun. agst Mr. Wright's Mr. Gurney's blk. b. a. Amelia.— 

bik. b. p. Virgin. — No course. Mr. Tyssen beat. 

Lord Rivers's blk. d. p. Regent, Sir P. Blake's blk. b, a. Emmetf, 

agBt Sir P. Blake's cream-coloured agst Mr. Pagers blk. b. a. Bess.*— 

d. Express. — Lord Rivers beat. No course. 

Lord Rivers's blk. and w. b. p. Admiral Wilson's blk. d. a. Un« 

Aisk, agst Sir P. Blake's w. b. p. daunted, agst Mr. Wilkinson^s red 

Srmine.— Lord Rivers beat. d. a. Zeno. — Mr. Wilkinson beat. 

Mr. Wilkinson's bl. b. p. Zell, Captain Wyatt's blk. d. a. X 

agst Mr. Wright's blk. b. p. Venus. Jasper, agst Sir P. Blake's w. h. a. 

Undecided. Eve. — Undecided. 

Lord Rivers's w. b. p. Ratler, Mr. Jones's yel. b. p. Jewel, 

agst Mr. Redhead's blk. d. p. against Mr. R. Hamond's blk. d.p« 

XfOunger. — No course. Snug. 

Lord Rivers's bl. b. p. Restless, Admiral Wilson's blk. and w. fa. 

agst Mr. Redhead's blk. b. p. Leve- p. Urchin, agst Mr. R. Hamond^s 

ret.«-«-Undecided. blk. b. p. 

Admiral Wilson's blk. d. a. Ugly, Mr. Page's blk. b. p. Beauty, 

^gst Mr. H. Redhead's blk. b. a. agst Mr. Hamond's blk. p. Swift- 

^arico. — Admiral Wilson beat. sure. 

Mr. Wilkinson's red b. a. Zarina^ Mr. Wright*s w. b. Vice, ags^ 

agst Mr. Tyssen's red and w. b. p« Mr. Wilkinson's red b. p. Za£h. 

Trifi^v— Mr, Wilkinion beat. Admiral Wilson's blk. b. p. Ura* 

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nia, agst Mr. WiikiiMon's blk. b. p. 
iiepharetta. 

Mr. J. Wrigbt's hlk. b. p. Stella, 
agst Captain Wyatt*s bl. b. p. X 
Jeanett. 

Mr. Wrigbt'g red b. p. -Vesta, 
mgainst Mr. Wilkiasou's bL d. p. 
Zuiior. 

The last seven races were not 
ran for want of light. 



WARRANTY OF A HORSE. 



An Action tried in the Court <(f King** 
Bench ^ Saturday^ Dec. I a, before Lord 
ChiaJ Justice JEUenborough. 



Dawson t;. Sir Alex. Grant, Bart 

nPHI^ was an action upon tbe 
warranty of a horse, sold by tbe 
defendant to the plaintiff, Mrs. 
D^iwson, a lady of fortune, residing 
at Sudhury. It appeared tbat early 
ID the month of October, last year, 
seeing a flaming advertisement in 
the papers, of a capital pair of car- 
riage horses (broken for chargers,) 
to be sold at Prior's (a horse dealer) 
stables, in Biandford mews, Mr. 
Charles Dawson, the son of the 
plaintiff, a young gentleman of 
Cambridge University, went to 
yrioi*s to see tbe horses, and hav- 
ing tried them in the break, and 
taken tbe opinion of Mr. Sewell, 
an eminent Veterinary Surgeon, 
agreed to purchase them for his 
mother, at the price of ooe hun- 
dred and thirty guineas, on a war- 
ranty of their soundness by Prior, 
on the part of Sir Alexander Grant, 
to whHom they l)ehMiged. The 
Korses were broujjht from thence 
to the stables of one Smith, a 
livery stable keeper in Cheney- 
incws, who, upon being asked his 
opinif^n of them by Mr. Dawson, 
saiil he thought theui a dear bargain 
^X eighty guineas, he having ob- 



served some de|;ree of eoBtraetion 
in tbe fore feet of the borve in 
question, and an appearance of 
one of the hoofs beiog duhbed* 
(that is, having tbe cracks in the 
hoof filled up with a sort of com- 
position, to bide tbe blemisb). In 
tt few days, howeter, the h«rse« 
were sent to Siidbnry, by easy 
journeys, under the care of tb« 
plaintiff *s coachman ^ during the 
fii*st day, the horse in (juestion 
went on very well, but in the course 
of the second day's journey, he 
betrayed symptoms of lameness, 
particularly in the near fore foot. 
On his arrival at Sudbury, evwry 
possible care and attention was 
paid him. Two emusent farriers 
of that place, Mr. Baker and Mn 
Miirrells, attende<i him ^ bat tb* 
lameness inci*eased, and he wb» 
ultimately returned to tbe defend-" 
ant as unsound. This statesient 
was proved by tbe coachman o€ 
plaintiff, tbe two farriers from Sud- 
bury, and Mr. Sewell,. tbe Veteri- 
nary Surgeon, the three latter o^ 
whom were decidedly of opinioii^ 
tbat the lameness did not proceed 
from any reeent accident, or over 
work^ but chat it was an old dis* 
ease, arising from contracted fcet> 
and had been onming on for several 
months ; tliat the disease migbft 
have abated for a time, from ibe 
horse having been some weeks at 
grass previous to tbe tale, but 
when he came to li6 worksed aglin^ 
it coHseqijkently returottd.. 

Smith, the stable «keeper,.8tBted» 
tbat be had )>aid tbe plaiBtiiF*& 
coachman 2l. (ibe iip^taoiaey, e« 
usual tee to th« purchaser's coacb* 
man, upon tbe sale of horses),. 
which be bad received from Prior> 
for that purposQ* Tbe a<lvertise.- 
ment, and a letter frejn the defend- 
ant to Mr. Dawsen, were tbeu put 
in and read. By tbe latter, .the^ 

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4efeadaiit repesented that bath chargers, swore in most positive 

horses were perfectly sound while terms, that the horse in ^uestioa 

in his possession, and his only rea- was perfectly sodnd, and without 

son for parting with them, was his blemish daring the period they 

going to reside for sometime in the were acquainted with him, and up 

country. to the time of the sale to the plaia« 

Mr. Scarletl, for the defendant, tiff. 

4>hserFed, that his client. Sir Al- Joseph Prior, the horse dealer^ 

exander Grants was a most ho^ was next called, and swore that he ^ 

nourahle man, and nothing of sold these horses to the defendant 

blame or intention of fraud could in the month of March, last year^ 

be imputed to him in this case.*--* for one hundred and forty guineas ^ 

He had purchased these liorses, he had previously bought them at 

from Prior, m tlie spring of the Beverley and Northallerton iairs $ 

last yr«ir, and being the Colonel he had examined them both whca 

of a volunteer corps, Ite u^e<i the they came up from the country^ 

horse in question (which was the and they were as sound as any 

^ner horse of the two), occasion* horses in the kingdom when he 

aUy as a clKirger ; and during the sold them to the defendant ^ and 

time they were in his possession, swore positively they were so nov, 

CO symptom of ansoundness was particularly the horse in question^ 

«ver discovered in either. It was which was as fine ahorse as anyia 

not his (the defendant's) original England. Sir Alexander Grant 

intention to have parted with them, called at his stables the day aftv 

And going out of town for some they came up from grass, and ha4 

^onths, he sent them to Lord them examined; they were thea 

Maodonakl's estate, called Hanwell perfectly sounds and he never knew 

Park, near Twickenham, to take either to be lame, or betray .tha 

the run of Jthe grounds during his least s3rmptoms of unsoundness, 

absence; but the estate was then Upon his cross-examination bj 

under saley and being shortly after the Solicitor-General^ he said that 

disposed of, it became necessary to he advertised the horses for sale m 

remove the horses ; and, under the usual way, and Sir Alexander 

these circiNiistanoes, Sir Alexander paid him one hundred and forty 

changed his min<i, and thought guineas for them. He always 

profier to sell them. He should tipped (feeM) the coachman on 

prove, that while in Sir Alexander's those occasions. They (the horse* 

fXttsessioB, they were properly ex- dealers) were obliged to tip aU 

crcised— be drove them in his car- ro«nrf---for, if they did not, the 

riage, but not frequently, and that gentlemen's servants would hit the 

during all that time no symptoms horses an unlucky blow with a fork 

of unsoundness ever appeared ; so or something, so as to disable them, 

that if any such existed, it must and make their masters dissatisfied 

have orig^ated from some acci* with their bargains. The usual iip 

dent while under the care of the was a guinea a leg ; but he gave 

f^intiff*s coachman. Sir Alexander's coachman 5l. He 

Howes, the defendant's coach- did not call this ** robbing the 

man; Stanmore, his assistant; and master, to bribe the servant ;*' but 

Stoker, a rough-rider of the Life they could not sell their horses un* 

Guards, who broke both horses for less they tipped. When the horsea 

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eame from « gentlemafi to be 9old« laxatioD from his profetiiond in^ 
they could not tip so bighy it wss ties g aVe htm last summer, io the 
then only half-a-guinea a leg ) hot neighbourhood of a celebrated wm^ 
the tip^numey always came ont of teriag place, he met with an inti-* 
the . gentleman's pocket i* lietng m«te friend of bis, an officer in the 
chargeil in. the price, of the horses; army, who had a very fine showy 
Upon the sale to the plamtifi, he horse; one day a gentleman's 
onfy tipped '^2\, to his coachman, groom called on him/ and told hint 
He' again > )>ersisted in swearings* his master had takeiv a great fancy 
that the horse in question was as to his horse, and would buy it of 
eound as any horse in the kingdom, him if he was inclined to part with 
He admitted he was lather small in it — ^the officer said/ he was Tery 
the feet for a lM>rse of his size, but fond of his horse, he had no with 
bis feet were particularly good, to part with him, and nothing but 
When . he came back from the a very high price could induce 
jdaintifis he was very lame, but bim-^'' O, Sii F* says the groom^ 
Wat perfectly SQund now ; and be " No matter for that, when my 
thought, the lameness arose from master takes a fancy to a things 
bad ^eattoeiit, or some accident, and I recommend it, he does not 
:while in the plaintiff's possession, mind what price he pays for it--' 
He thought his friend 71f> (the what fk> you askV* " Ir won't 
i:oacbman) might have done it. . take less than one hundred and 
; Joseph Prior, the above wit- twenty guineas/' replied the. offi<> 
tiess's sou, and RidiBrdson, a far- cer, " O, Sir P rejoined the 
rier, conpbordted the above testi- groom^ *Vthat won't do, yoifr mast 
mouy. askone hundred and thirty guineas; 
' The Solicitor-General in his re- for you know, 1 must have ten for 
fdy, declared be meant not, to im- myself." . The. officer dismissed 
pute any blame or intention of him with indignation, but ulti-* 
fraud to Sir Alexander . Grant ; « he mately the gentleman bought the 
i^elteved him to l)e a most honour- horse. He (the Solicitor-General) 
able and excellent person, but he afterwards cautioned this gentle- 
meant to impute tVaud to Mr> man, if he bad any regard for his 
Prior, the boi*$e-dealer, and his life, never to, ride the horse, for he 
friend Mr.. Tip,, the coachman; nor saw this same groom disable him 
could the Jury, after the evidence in such a manner vs to make it 
they bad just heard, doubt for a dangerous for any one to ride him, 
moment I the unsoundness of the because' when he went to the offi- 
horse prior to the sale. He was cer to demand his fee, he called 
La{>px in tii is- opportunity, that the him a d-rd rascal, and kicked him 
pttldic sboidd know the practices out of the house. Under snch cir- 
of these horse-dealers, and their cuinstances, be left it to the Jury 
uniform principle of rolibiug the to say, on which side the real 
masters to bribe the servants, for truth of the question was to he 
the purpose of putting a cheat upon found. 

them — this cau?e reminded him of Lord Ellenborough having sum* 

a circumstance whicli came within med up the whole of the evidence 

his-ovt'n knowledge. While enjoyr to the Jury, observed, that in suck 

ing the little leisure which the re- contrariety of evidence it was for 

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109 



tjaem to consider on which side 
the balance of truth would prepon- 
derate; 

The Jury, without hesitation, 
found^ a verdict for the plaintiff — 
Damages 1401. including the keep, 
and other incidental expences. 



IDENTITY OP A HORSE. 



Imw Case tried in the Court oj Common 
Pleas, GuHdhally Dec. 12, be/ore Lard 
Chief Justin Mansfield. 



Liberty v. Taylor. 

TN this action plaintiff, who is a 
farmer in Buckinghamshire, 
sought to recover a ^ horse in the 
possession of defendant, and al- 
leged to be the property of plain- 
tiff 

From the evidence adduced on 
Yiehalf of plaintiff, it appeared that 
lie purchased the horse in question, 
from a person named Leper, at 
Aylesbury Fair, in the early part 
of the present year. The animal 
had not long been in his posses- 
sion, however, before it was either 
stolen, or it strayed from the pas- 
ture in which it had been left to 
feed. A considerable time elapsed 
before he obtained any tidings of 
it 3 and was at length informed by 
one of his neighbours, that it was 
in tbe possession of the defendant. 
He immediately went to ascertain 
the fact, and on seeing the horse, 
was satisfied tl\^t it was the same 
\iiibich he had bought. He, of 
course, demanded it of the defend- 
ant, but was refused, and in conse- 
(][uence brought the present action. 

Five witnesses were examined in 
support of the claim of plaintiff^ 
who all distinctly swore to the 
liorse being the saihe which plain- 
tiff had purchased of Leper, at 
AylesbutyFair, which he had after- 

Vol. XLI.— No. 243. 



wards at his farm, and which was 
sui)sequently lost. 

Upon the part of the defendant, 
it was roost positively stated, that 
the horse demanded by plaintiff, 
had been in his possession from tho 
time of its being a foal ; and in 
support of this assertion, four wit-* 
nesses were examined, who bore 
testimony to the fact. 

Lord Chief Justice Mansfield, 
in summing up the evidence, ob- 
served, that the question for the 
decision of the Jury in this case 
was, as to the identity of the horse, 
a question which, from the posi- 
tive testimony on both sides, was 
of extreme difficulty, as indeed 
questions of identity generally were. 
In the course of his long practice, 
he had often witnessed instances o£ 
equal doubt, and recollected on 
one occasion being present, when 
the Court was occupied for seven 
hours in ascertaining the identity 
of a hog. The doubts of the Court 
were, however, at length cleared 
up, by rather an unexpected, as 
well as a very novel description of 
evidence. A servant of the plain- 
tifl^ who had witnessed the doubts, 
which were entertained, came for-* 
ward, and said, he could at once 
ascertain whether the hog was his 
master's or not ; for, if it was his 
master's, and that he flourished a 
stick in his face, the animal would 
instantly fly at him like a dog ; if 
it did not do so when he mad6 the 
experiment, he would be satisfied 
that no doubt remained as to whose 
it was. The Court were not a lit- 
tle surprised at this curious mode 
of ascertaining identity, but re- 
solved to have the matter thus de«* 
cided. The hog was accordingly 
conducted with much difficnlty into 
Court, and the witness having been 
furnished with a stick, placed him- 
self iu the front of the hog, and 

P waving 



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waving it in his front, the animal 
in a moment flew at him, and laid 
him prostrate, to tlie no small 
amusement of the Court, but to 
the chagrin and disappointment of 
defendant, who was in consequence 
forced to relinquish all claim to 
his pig. In the present case there 
was unfortunately no such proof, 
it remained with the Jury there- 
fore to come to such decision as 
they conceived the justice of the 
case required. 

The Jury, after some delibera- 
tion, found a verdict for plaintiff. 

PEDESTRTANISMj 

OR, 

MEMOIRS OF CELEBRATED PE- 
DESTRIANS. 

2k New work, under the above 
title, was advertised on the 
cover of our Magazine for July 
last, as being about to be published 
hy subscription ; we understand it 
will make its appearance on the 1st 
of January next, and that the sub- 
jects on which it treats are ar- 
ranged under the following heads : 

1st. An Essay on the Gymnas- 
tics of the Ancients. 

2d. and 3d. An account of the 
performances of the most noted 
Pedestrians of the last and present 
century. 

4th. Captain iB^rc.lay*s perform- 
i^nces« with a minute Journal of 
his walk of 1000 miles in 1000 
hours. 

5th. " Essay on Training,** con- 
taining an account of the method 
adopted in regard to Crib, pre- 
paratory to his battle with Moli- 
neux. 

6th. Essay on the physical pow^* 
crs of rajin, with a large appendix^ 



The work is to be revised by 
Captain Barclay ; and as the per- 
formances of that gentleman have 
excited more curiosity than those 
of any other pedestrian, we have 
no doubt that the wish of possess- 
ing them accurately described will, 
alone, render the work an object 
of general interest— We desiga 
making some extracts from the 
book on its being published, and, 
with the author's permisstoD, to 
copy likewise the engraving of the 
Captain into our Magazine. 



33 



ACTION TO RECOVER DAMAGES 
FOR SHOOTING A DOG. 

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DK' 
CEMBER 3. 

Mocklow V. Kehnaa. 

HTHIS was an action brought by 
the plaintiff, a tradesman in 
Russell-court, Drury-lane, against 
the defendant, a person residing in 
the said court, to recover damages^ 
for shooting a favourite terrier 
dog. The first thing the Jury had 
to consider was, whether the de* 
fendant shot the dog himself, or 
ordered another to shoot it. 

The facts of the case were, the 
plaintiff, who deals in jewellery 
and valuable articles, kept a dog as 
a safe-guard to his house. The 
animal, which freouently continued 
barking during the night, occa- 
sioned some annoyance to the 
neighbours. The defendant in 
August last, being confined by ill- 
ness, sent his errand boy to the 
plaintiff several times to request he 
would endeavour to keep bis dog 
quiet« in order that he might ob^ 
tain some rest. It did not aj^iear 
that any attention was paid to the 
request, and the dog was shot from 

a window 



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* window 10 the deficndaqt's house. femJant did kill the dog, ^le plain- 

omoke was seen to issue from the tiff will be intitled to your verdict, 

window when the animal was Then comes the question of dama- 

Killed, and no doubt could be en- ges. It appears to me that both 

tertained that it was killed either parties were iu the wrong: tbfi^ 

by the defendant or his grandson. plaintiff was wrong in keeping a 

A person named Woodman, sit- dog in a situation to annoy the 

ting at breakfast in one of the ad- neighbours ; but if the defendant 

joining houses, saw the gun fired was annpyed, he might have 

tronn the defendant's stair-case brought his action, and it docs not 

window. He afterwards went to follow that he had a right to kill 

J ^1 ^^'"P^^y ^^^ ^^« plaintiff; the dog. That is not the >aw, hut 

and after they had asked him how in considering the damages, you 

he could commit so cruel an ac- will consider what provocation the 

tion, he said, because the dog had defendant had to do it, and whe- 

disturbed him. ther a man would do as much in- 

It was contended on the part of jury by killing a dog of this kind 

the defendant, that there was no which had made a disturbance, as 

proof that Mr. Kelmau, who was a dog which had made none. It 

seventy years of age, had killed the is difficult to know the value of 

§1 ^ . such a dog. It was a terrier only 

Mr. Serieant Shepherd said, his kept to bark, and could be of no 

client could no more boW a gun to particular value." 

shoot the dog than he could fly. The Jury found a verdict for th^ 

The learned Judge in summing plaintiff.— Damages, 10s.— Th6 

up the evidence, observed, " It costs will he about 501. 
you should be of opinion the de- 



A COMPLETE LIST OF THE WINNING HORSES, &c. 

IN 1812. 



Ccntinmd jrom page 73. 
^g^' BY GAMENUT. No. of PfizeS. 

3. eARSNET, Mr. Northeys, 501. at Newmarket ; received lOt. at 

Httntingdo|i> and won twiee M. at Swaffham 3 

BT OAUNTLBT. 

3. Defiance, General Gr^vcnor*s, ll^s. at Huntingdon $ 8^. and 
50l. at Bedford; twice 70gs. at Northampton ; and 70I. at Lei- 
cester ^ 5 

BY GAYMAK. 

5. Fanny, Mr. Dyott's, pOgs. at Lichfield j GOgs. at Leicester, and 
received lOgs. at Oswestry 3 

BY GILES. 

3. Gaiety, Mr. Baldock's, 501. at Canterbury 1 

3. Pointers, Mr. Lake's, lOC^s. and 750gs. at Newmarket 3 Duke of 
York's, 2^0g;s. at Bgham *,•.....• ^.....i fife 

F 2 BY 



1 12 THE SPORTING MAGAZINE. 

Age$, BY GOHANNA. No. of PTtzes. 

3. Bay Colt, (out of Dora) Lord Egreniont's, 35gs. at Brightou 1 

3. Bay Filly, (out of Grey Skim) Lord Egremont*s, 95gs. and 140g8. 
at Ascot 2 

3. Bay Filly, (Sister to Castanea) Mr. Wyndbam's, 215gs. and twice 

200gs. at Newmarket 3 

4. Brigbtonia, Mr. A. Goddard*s, twice lOOgs. atKingscote, aud 50gs. 

at Newmarket 3 

3. Brown Colt, (gut of Ransom) Lord Egremont*s, 200gs. at Brigh- 

ton 1 

7. Cestrian, Mr. £gerton*s, 120gs. at Knutsford, and 135g8. at 
Wrexham 2 

4. Dorina, Mr. Biggs*s, 501. and a Handicap Stakes at Chippenham, 

also 501. at Monmouth " 3 

3. Grace, Mr. Harrison's, 50l. at Chelmsford 3 501. at Reading, and 

501. at E^ham 3 

3. Lamia, Mr Biggs*s, 70gs. at Abingdon I 

4. Nobody, Sir T. Mostyn's, 501. at Bridgenorth 1 

5. Rabbit, Mr. Baldock's, 50l. at Ipswich 1 

5. Ringdove, Sir Jp Hawkins's, 50gs. at Maddington ; Mr. Galley's, 

55gs. at Bibiiry 2 

5. Romana, Mr. Peach's, lOOgs. at. Maddington, and the Cup, value 

80gs. at Winchester 2 

7. Scorpion, Lord C. H. Somerset's, 500gs. at Brighton j 55gs. at 
Abingdon; the Gold Cup, value iOOgs. with 50gs. added, at 

Biirderop, anrl 200gs. at Newmarket . , 4 

4. Stingtail, Sir J. Shelley's, 501. at Swaffham, and 501. at New- 
market 2 

4, Turtle, Mr. Cope's, 50gs. at Goodwood, and twice 25gs. at Mad- 
dington ^ 3 

BY GOLUMPUS. 

4. Beverley, Mr. Mellish's, 400gs. at Newmarket 1 

3. Catton, Lord Scarbrough's, 325gs. at York „ 1 

3. Octerington, Mr. Rob's, the St. Leger Stakes of 1400gs. at Don- 
caster 1 

3. Uncle Toby, Mr. Benson's, 65gs. at Newcastle, Staffordshiie $ the 

Gold Cup, value lOOgs. at Shrewsbury, and 150gs. at Stafford . . 3 

' BY GOVBRNOK. 

3. Ploughboy, Duke of Hamilton's, 50l. at Doncaster 1 

3. Stiff^Dick, Mr. R. Johnson's, 70I. at Carlisle 1 

3. Tinker Barnes, Lord Oxford's, 7^gs. at Chester ; 70gs. at War- 
wick; 70g*' *t Shrewsbury, and 65gs. at Walsall 4 

BY GOUTY. 

6. Britannia, Mr. Lake's, 25gs. at Newmarket 1 

a. Maid of the Mill, Mr. Starling's, the King's Purse of lOOgs. at 

Ascot ,.^ ^, 1 

BY GBA-SPBa. 

3. Rasper, Mr. Andrew's, 200gs. at Newmarket ........^ 1 

BY 



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jiges. BY HAMBLETONIAN. No.of PflxeS. 

4. Albuera, Mr. Peirse's, 60l. at Newmarket, and 600gs. at York .. 2 
4. Amadis de Gaul, Lord Darlington's, the Gold Cup, value lOOgs. 

with 120gs. in specie, at Lancaster; the Gold Cup, value lOOgs. 

with I20gs. in specie, at Ormskirk, and lOOgs, at Doncaster .. 3 

3. Bay Colt, (Tam*a-Shanter) Mr. Smalltvood's, 501. at Lainberton, 

and 501. at Ayr 2 

4, British Bayonet, Mr. Benson's, 50l. at Shrewsbury, and 60gs. at 

Stafford : 2 

4. Camerton, Lord C. H. Somerset's, lOOgs. Bt Newmarket; 235g8. 

at Bibury ; Mr. Biggs'^, 80gs. at Stockbridge ; the King's Purse 

at Winchester ; the Gold Cup, value lOOgs. with 90g8. in specie, 

and the King*s Purse at Salisbury ; the Gold Cup, value lOOgs. 

at Blandford -, also 120gs. at Kingscote 8 

4. Fair Helen, Mr; Clark's, 55g8. at Chesterfield I 

4. Hamlet, Mr. Ladbroke's, the King's Purse at Canterbury, and the 

King's Purse at Newmarket 9 

4, Navigator, Sir Edvvard Smith's, the King's Purse of lOOgs. at 

York I 

4. Phantom, Mr T. Duncombe's, QOgs. at Doncaster 1 

4. Pomt'ret-Cake, Mr. £. L. Hodgsou's, 501. the Earl of Chester's 

Purse of lOOgs. and 60gs. at Chester, also 49gs. at Pontefract, . 4 

6. Smallhopes, Mr. Radclytfe's, 50gs. at Goodwood -, Mr. Jone&'s, 

501. at Taunton ; Mr. Radclyffc s, 50l. at Bodmin 3 

7. York, Mr. Pigott's, 450gs. at Newmarket j 80gs. at {jridgenortb, 

and the King's Purse of lOOgs. at Warwick 3 

BY HAPHAZARD. 

3. Araxa, Sir H. Lippincott's^ 25gs. at Bibury, and 50l. at Win- 
chester - 2 

3. Bay Colt, Mr. Addy's, the County Cup, value 50gs. at Chelmsford 1 

3. Historia, Mr. Thornbill's, 60gs. and 25gs. at Newmarket 2 

4. Hit-or-Miss, Mr. Egerton's, tiOgs. at Newcastle, Staffordshire, and 

75gs. at Wrexham 2~ 

3. Venture, Mr. Lake's, 215gs, at Newmarket I 

4. X, Y, Z, Mr. Riddell's, 75gs. and the Gold Cup, value lOOgs. with 

30gs. in specie, at Newcastle; ]50g$. at Doncaster 3 and the HI 
Gold Cup, value lOOgs. at Richmond 4 

BY HERMES. 

5. Rough Robin, Mr. Mason's, 45gs. at Durham I 

BY HYACINTHUS. 

3. Geranium, Mr. Brandling's, 350gs. at York ,, I 

4. Dutch Sam, (late Rillington) Mr. Nalton's, 40gs. at Barton -, Mr. 

White's, 50l. at Manchester 2 

8. Darrington-Cade, Mr. Baird's, 50gs. at Edinburgh 1 

4. Hector, Mr. T. Robinson's, twice 501. at Morpeth; 501. at Carlisle, 

and 501. aj Penrith 4 

4. Ness, Sir M. M. Sykes's, 50gs. at Malton, and the King's Purse at 

Newcastle • 2 

• » ■ 6. Rover, 



114 THS SPORTINA BIAGAZINK. 

4r^* No. cf Prism. 

G, VioytT, Lord Montgomerie's, the Gold Cup, value lOOgs. tod 50g8. 
at Irvine , 2 

4. Variety, Mr.C. Norton'?, the King's Purse for mares at Newmar- 
ket J Lord Lowtbar*8, 80gs. and 50\. at Ascot ; Mr. Jones's, 
twice 50l. at Oxford ; 501. at Worcester i and tbe Gold Cup, 
value lOOgs. with 40gs. in specie, at Warwick . . . . , 7 

4. Woodbine, Mr. Nalton's, 70gs. and 40gs. at Pontefrapt; also42g8. 
at Northallerton ^ 3 

BY HYPXEION. 

3. AU-Foars, Mr. Prince's, the €rold Cup, value lOOgs. with lOg a. in 

specie, and 501. at Stamford , 2 

3. Orscui, Lord Jersey 's» twice lOOgs. and 400gs. at Newmarket . . . « 3 

3. Pranks, Mr. Batson's, 501. at Basingstoke \ 

%. Rosalind, Mr. King's, the Gokl Cup at T^tacss, and a Stakes at 

Tavistock % 

3. Valentine, Lord Jersey's, 125gs. at Newmarket 1 

Violante, Mr. Birdwood's, 25gs. at Totness ^ . . . I 

7. Wood-Lark, Mr. Newuham's, twice 50gs. at £gh»m 2 

BY JOHN BULL. 

3. Ayrshire-Lass, Lord Montgomerie's, 50gs. at Dumfries, and tbriee 

501. at Stirling 4 

* 3. Bay Colt, (out of Miss Whip) Lord Montgomerie's> lOOgs. iimi 
the Silver Cup, value 60gs. at Irvine; the Gold Cup, value lOOgs. 
with 20g8. in specie, 200gs. 125gs. and lOOgs. at Ayr ^ . . § 

4. Bullion, Sit D. H. Blair's, 50gs. at Ayr I 

4.. General Graham, Lord Montgomerie's, twice 50g6. at Irvine} Mr. 

D. Hamilton's, 7^g8* and 50L at A vr * 4 

4. Kilruddery, Lord Montgomerie's, 501. at Irvine « . . 1 

BY JOHMNY. 

d. Chesnut Filly, (out of Momentilla's dam) Mr. Vausittart's, 95gt. 

at Newmarket 1 

3. Manikin, Sir J. Shelley's, 120gs. at Newmarket > Sir W. W. 

Wynne's, 50l. at Oswestry ••••.. 3 

BY KILL-DEVIL. 

6. Bay Mare, Mr. Colby's, OOgs. at Haverford-West 1 

BY KING BLAOUD. 

Chesnut Horse, Mr. Watkins's, the Oakley Hunt Cup, with 40g9. 
in specie, at Bedford • I 

5. Jannette, Lord Falmouth's, 50l. at Winchester > 150gs. and 50l.at 

Exeter 3 50i. and the Gold Cup, value lOOgs. at Bodmin: Mr. 
Peach's, 40g8. at Newbury • 6 

BY KING FBB6U8. 

a. Piccaroon, Mr. Williams's, 50l. at Blandford, and 50l. at Sxeter 2 

BY KITE. 

5. Jletail, Mr. Deileker's, 50gs. at Mor|)eth \ 

BY l'obibnt. 

7. Sunflower, Mr. Plerre|x>nt's, 275gs. and 50gs. at Croxton 2 

BY 



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THE SK)RTINO MAGAZINE. 11.$ 

Ages. BY LBTHB. No, of pTvoei. 

6. Flaytnate, Mr. N. Ffrllowes*s^ 45gs. at Exeter , • 1 

BY LIGNUM-VIT-B. 

3* Mulberry, Mr. Glover*s, 7<^gs. at Lichfield , 1 

i, Mabogaoy^ Mr. Tonies's^ 50l. at Warwick ...< 1 

BY LITTLE JOEY. 

^» Little Charley, Mr. Green^s^ 50\, at Stamford .....«• 1 

BY LOP. 

7. Wood-D«mon, Mr. Farquharson's, 501. at Salisbury; lOOgs, 

aod50l. at Blandtbrd j 301. at Sherborue ^ also 55gs, at Exeter 5 

BY MAGIC. 

10. Mountaineer, Mr. Calle^'s^ lOOgs. and 50gs. at Burderop ; also 
205gs. at Kingscote. . . v S 

BY MASTER ROBEKT. 

7, Bay Mare, (out of Bullion's dam) Sir D. H. Blair*s^ 50gs. at Ayr 1 

BY METEOR. 

4. Meteorina, Mr. Munsey's^ 120g6. and 50l. at Monmouth « % 

BY MILO. 

4. Cbickey Pokey, Mr. Benson's, 50l. at Manchester; Mr. Atberton*s, 
50g8. atStafford ; 2 

BY MR. TEAZLE. 

4. Beresford^ Mr. Biggs's, 50gs. at Maddiug^on ; 150g8. and 50l. at 

Bath; 501. at Blandford; 501. at Sherborne] lOOgs. at King- 
scote i also 44gs. at Basingstoke f 

7. Gimrdy, Mr. Ladbroke's^ 60gs. at Brighton ; Mr. Shoubridge'l, 
lOOgs. at Lewes , 2 

5. Teazle, Sir F. 8tandish's, 250g». at Newmarket; Lord Foley's, four 

times lOOgs. at Newmarket « « 5 

BY MOORCOCK. 

Bay Mare, (dam by Cavendish) Mr. Scarisbrick's, 60gs. and T^S^* 
«t Manchester; also 60gs. at Lancaster ^ «•• 3 

BY ORLAKDO. 

4. Betsy, Mr. Dyott's, 6Dg8. at Leicester 1 

^. Sir Roger, Mr. Bainbrigge's, 50gs. at Bridgenorth^ and 50gs» «t 
Cfaesterfiekl • 4 2 

BY ORVILLE. 

3. Algernon, Lord Fitzwilliam's, lOOgs. at Malton « 1 

3. Bay Colt, (out of Lady Brougb) Lord Darlington'tf, BOOlgs. at 

Newmarket 1 

3. Bay Filly, (out of Seliin's dam) Mr. Ladbroke*s, 1 lOgs, at Lewes t 
3. Brown Colt, (out of Medina's dam) Colonel Udney's, 50gs. and 

QOgs. at Newmaikct ; Mr. Petre's, 501. at Chelmsford 3 

3. Elizabeth, Duke of Rutland*s, 70gs. at Newmarket; 700gs. at 

Ascot; 50gs. at Leicester ; also 70gs. lOOOgs. lOOgs. 125gs. and 

200gs. at Newmarket , « ft 

3. Expectation, Mr. Baldock*s, llOgs.^lOOgs. and twice 501. at Can* 

terbury. ,,. ^•.. ...... •••.•.,.•.• 4 

3, Occavias, 



Il6 - THE SPORTING MAGAZINE. 

Jget. No. of Prizes, 

3. Octavius^ Mr. Ladbroke*s, 5aOgs. at Newmarket, and the Derby 

Stakes of 1375gs. at Epsom 2 

2. Master George, (out of Miss Sophia) Mr. Elwes's, 225gs. aud 50gs. 
at Newmarket 2 

BY FANDOLPHO. 

7. Mowbray, Duke of Leeds's, 275g8. and one of the Subscription 
Purses of 2331. Ids. at York -, also 1021. 10s. at Richmond .... 3 

BY PAY NATO H. 

5. Oflk's Dyke, Jlr. Sbawe's, 801. at Manchester 5 the Gold Cnp, 
Value lOOgs. witli 50gs. iu specie, at Worcester j Lord C. H. 
Somerset's, 8OI. at Kingscote, and 200gs. at Newmarket 4 

B\ PEGASUS. 

5, Bay Horse, Mr. Berkeley's, lOOgs. at Egham 

BY PENCIL. 

Young Pencil, Mr. S. Byrcball's, the Silver Cup atBurderop . . . • 

BY PENSIONER. 

6, Pecunia, Mr. Boswell's, 501. at Kelso. 

BY PETWORTH. 

^ Bay Gelding, Mr. SyraondsN, the Cavalry Cup at Blandford .... 

BY FHCENIX. 

4. Cardeuio, Mr. Digby^s, the Silver Cup at Totness 

BY PILGRIM. 

(t. Beatus, Mr. J. Grant's, 50gs. at Barton 

Wellington, Mr. Hanson's, 30gs. anrl 45g9. at Burton-Hunt «, . . . 

BY POPINJAY. 

2. Chesnut Filly, (out of Co]>enhagen's dam) General GrosTenor's, 

20g$. at Newmarket . . , 

4. Mockbird, Sir J. Shelley's, 50l. at Newmarket 

BY PRECIPITATE. 

10. Langton, Lord Jersey's, 501. and lOOgs. at Newmarket •..«.. 2 

BY auiz. 

3. Aquarius, Mr. Thornhill's, twice lOOgs. and 50l. at Newmarket . . 3 
3. Flamingo, Lord Rous's, lOOgs. 50gs. and 501. at Newmarket .... 3 

2. Grey Colt, (dam by Delpini) General Grosvenor's, 20g8. at New- 

market • 1 

3. Ptolemy, Duke of Rutland's, 220gs. at Epsom 1 

3. Secretary, Lord Rous s, I50gs. at Newmarket 1 

BY REMEMBRANCER. 

3. Caroline, Lord Queensberry's, lOOgs. at Irvine, and 50gs. at Ayr 2 

3. Chesnut Colt, (out of Heroine) Loid Strathmore's, 70I. at Durham j 

and the Silver Cup, value dOgs. with COgs. in specie, at New- 
castle 2 

4. Clan-Alpine, Sir T. Stanley's, lOC^. at Chester, and 45gs. at 

Preston 2 

9. Cornelius, Gen. Seddon's, 50l. at Penrith I 

3. Uerriogton 



THE. fiPOKTlNG MAGAZINE. 1 17 

jtfgcjj - '"- ^ No.ofPrizeg* 
3. HerringtoD, Mr; Beckwitfa's, the Produce StaKes of pOOgs. at 
. .Newcastle^ and 260g^. at Doncaster 2 

5. Julian, Lord C. H. Somerset's, gOgs: at Newmarket j 150g8. at 

Bibtiry, am) 40gs. at Newmarket • • 3 

6. Little John, Mr. M'Minnie's, 50gs. at Newton 1 

2. Madrid, Lord Darlington's, 40g8. at Durham; Mr. Painter's, 75g8. 

. at StaflFord 2 

3. Master Ryby, (dam by Volunteer) Mr. Nicfaolson^'s, 70l. at New- 

ton 1 

5, Recordon, Mr. Dawson's, 5Qgs. at Lewes, and! OOgs. at Egham.. 2 

4. Running Peter, Mr. Scarisbrick*s, 501. at Lancaster X 



• < • 



BY- ST. GEORGE. 

8. Bacchanal, Mr. Slarke's, 50\. at Totness 1 

a. Champion, Mr. T. Davison's, the Port Sttakes at Catterick 5 Mr. 
F. Hartley's, 55gs. at Malton. : 2 

3. Llewellyn, Lord Qneensherry's, 501. at Ayr . . ; • t 

7. Pan, Lord Sackville's, 200gs. at Newmarket . . '. 1 

a. Topsy-Turvy, Colonel Draper's, 50gs. 25gs. and 50l. at Bibuiy 5 

Mr. Rawlinson's, twice 50l. at Kingscote 5 

BY SANCHO. 

4. Angeld, Mr. Goddard's, lOOl. at Brighton 5 Lord C. H. Somerset's, 

60gs. at Lewes 2 

2. Bay Colt, (dam by Oberon) Mr. Brandling's, 120gs. at Catterick 1 

3. Bay Colt, (dam by Highflyer) Lord Darlington's, 50gs. and tOC^s. 

at Newtnarket 2 

2. Bay Colt, (dam by Toby) Sir E. P. Lloyd's, 150gsf. at Holywell. . 1 

3. Cato, Lord Stawell's, lOOgs. at Newmarket 1 

3. Chesnut Colt, (dam by Mercury) Sir H. Nelthorpe's, lOOgs. at 

Malton 1 

3. Chesnut Colt, (out of Darliug) Lord Kinnaird's, twice 20(^. at 

Newmarket'. 2 

3. Chesnut Filly, Mr. Stephens'*, 50l at Tenbury I 

3. Don, Mr. Taylor's, a Stakes at Cardiff X 

3. Kid, Mr. Gascoigne's, QOgs. at York ....««. I 

3. Lady Sophia, Mr. Wilson's, 200gs. and 300gs.'atNewni«rket .... 2 

3. Maria, Mr. Mellish's, 50gs. at Newmarket 1 

4. Orion, Mr. Uppleby's, 150gs. atPontefract 1 

2. Salamanca, Mr. Scaife's, SOgs. at Pontefract I 

3» Scancataldi, Sir M. M. Sykes's, 50gs. at York, and 25gs. at Knuts- 

ford 2 

BY SAXB COBOURG. 

4. Bauble, Mr. Vevers's, 511. 5s. at Hereford 1 

4. Bay Colt, Mr. Beale's, 40g8. at Ludlow 1 

BY SEUM. 

2. Chesnut Filly, (out of Zoraida) Mr. Payne's, lOOgs. at Newmarket 1 

2. Harriet, Mr. Ladbroke's, 120gs. at Epsom 1 

BY SHUTTLE. 

3. Aihton-Lad, Mr. Theakston's, 50l. at tontefract 1 

Vol. XLL— No. 243. Q 5. Cambric, 



lit THB SPORTIKO MAOAZIMl. 

5. CamlMie, Mr. 6od<kini*$, tbe £rat Class of the Oatiaods* Stakes of 

47^gs. at Newmarket 1 

6. Diicbess« Sir R. Brooke*s, 6Qg«. at Newton & 

6. Fioiivai, Iiorcl G. H. Cavendishs, 140g8. 50gs. lOOga. aud 50L at 

Newmarket 4 

4. Legerdemain, Mr. Barktr's, lOOgs. at Cattarick, also 120g8. and 

501. at York S 

6. MiUdletborpe, Lord 6. H. Cavendish^t, IdOgs^ at Newmarket .... 1 

6. Fenelo|)c, Mr. BaUlie*8, 60g8. at Irvine 1 

5. Pope Joan> Sir G. Armytage*8, 120g8. at York 1 

3. Sligo, Mr. Fletcber*s» twice 501. at Newcastle | 501. and lOQl. at 

Carlisle -, also twice 50gs. at Ayr 

I BT Sia QX^irBB:. 

3. Gbesnttt Golt, (dam Hy Riclmrdsoa's Marsk) Sir T. Stanley's, 50gt. 
at Chester, and lOOgs. at NtfWton 2 

3. Fidsh, Lord Lowtber's, the Craten Stakes of 150gs. and 50l. at 
. Newmarket ; Mr. Mellisb's, 60gB. at Newmarket | Lord Low- 

tber*% the Gold Cap, value lOOgs. with 60gs. io specie, and 501. 
at Ascot • 5 

4. Oliver Cromwell, Mr. Brooke*s, 60gs. at Chester : 50l. at Ten- 

bury f 501. at Ludlow, and the King's Parse of lOOgs. at Not- 
tiugbara 4r 

3. Olivetta, Lord Stamford's, 501. at Derby; 501. at Shrewsbury; 

and iOOgs. at Tarporley^Hunt 3 

4. Stella, Lord Stamford*8, gOgs. at ^nutsford ; the Gold Cup, value 

iOQgs. at Nottingham j '^% at Derby \ TOgs. at Shrewsbury; 
the Gold Clip, value lOOgs. with 20gs. in specie, at Staffirad; 

Lord Grey's, 70gs. at Tarporley 6 

4. Worcester, Mr. Palfrey's, 50L at Bridgenortb ; 60gs. and received 
lOgs. at Hereford; the Gold Cup, value lOOgs. with SOgs. ID 
specie, at Leicester; also 501. at Walsall ...•.., •••••• 4 

BT f IB PBCBB. 

7. Chester, Mr. Shakespear's, 500gs. and lOOgs. at Newmarket • • • • 2 
7. Poulton, Mr. Jones's, the Gold Cup, value lOOgs. with tlOgs. in 

. . specie, at Oxford • * I' 

4. Sir Malagagi, Sir M. M. Sykes's, 250gs. at York Spring Meeting; 

the Produce Stakes of 750g8. and one of the Subscription Purses 
4>f 235L 15s. at York August Meeting j also the Produce Stakes 
of 500gs. at Doncaster , • « 4 

BY SIB 80LOMOK. 

3. Brown Colt, (Brother to Pigeon) Lord Scarbrough's, 50gs.- at 
Ormskirk 1 

6. Cambrian, Duke of St. Albans's, 40gs. at Epsom y 50gs. at £gham ; 

Mr. Dawson's, 200g8. at Newmarket; Duke of St. Albans's, 
5Qgs. at Newmarket « 4 

5. Henrietta, Lord ScarbroUgh's, the King's Purse for mares at 

York 1 

5. Maatidamun^ 



THE SPORTING MAGAZIKS. II9 

Jga. No, of Prizes. 

5, ]tfaDt]damun, Mr. Pigott% IfiOgs. at Bibury; 197]. at Bath; . 

also 130gs. and pOgs. at Worcester. 4 

4. ftebeoca, Duk« o^ Leeds*s» 501. at Cai^rick , I 

^ Salamanca, Mr. Brandling^s, 4Q0gs. at York Spring Meeting, and 

the Xiadies* P«irse at York August Meeting 2 

3, Wisdom, Mr. Wilson's, 200g^. at ^oncaster » 1 ' 

BT SIS TTLIC M'KILLIQVT. 

4. Glauvina, Lord OAtbrd's, 501. at Worcester, and 50L at Walsall 2 

BY SPEAR. 

Bay Gelding, Mr. Duffield's, the Cup, valn^ 85gs. also 60gs. at 
Abingdon. 2 

BY SOSCERBB. 

2. Algarsife, General Gower's, 50g8. at Newmarket 1 • 

3. Amelia, Sir C. Bunbgry's, SOOgs. at Newmarket I 

4. Betblem Gaber, Lord G. H. Cavendish's, 300gs. at Newmarket . . 1 

5. EUe, Mr. Astley's, 80gs. at Leicester 1 

3. Comus, Sir J. Sbelly*s, 1200gK. I50gs. 600gs. and 200gs. at New- 
market 3 l60gs. at Ascot) also l^OOgs,. and 200gs. at New- 
market 7 

3. Efwina, Mr. Clark's, 100g«. at York i 

3. Joan of Arc, General L. Gowefs, 6OL at Egham 3 Mr. Turner's, 
lOOgs. at Newmarket 3 

3. Lady of the Lake, Mr. Farrell's, 75g8. and 50L at Newmarket , . 2 

4. Magic, Mr. Astley's, 150gs. at Newmarket, and 70I. at Leicester 2 
3. Scout, Sir C. Bunbuiy's, 140g«. at Newmarket ' 1 

3. Skirmish, Mr. Prendergast's, twice SOOgs. at Newmariset 4 

4. Soothsayer, Lord Foley's, 600gs. at Newmarket 1 

4. Sorcery, Duke of Rutland's, lOOgs. the third Class of the Oatlands 

Stakes of 375gs. at Newmarket ; the Gold Cup, value lOOgs. 
with 50gs. in specie, at £psom ; also 80gs. 7^gs. 150gs. and 

600gs. at Newmarket , 7 

4. Squib, Duke of Hamilton's, 120gs. at Chester 1 

4. Truffle, Colonel Udney's, 45g8. and 50C^s. at Newmarket ; Mr. 
Payne's, SOOgs. at Newmarket; Colonel Udney's, 300gs. aiid 
65g8. at Newmarket 5 

2. Vale Royal, Captain H. Vyse's, 1 lOgs. at Ascot ; Mr. Forth*s, 

230g8. at Egham ,..- .a 

3. Udolpho, Duke of Hamilton's, 250gs. at York, and lOOgs. at 

Doncaster .2 

BY STAMFORD. 

3. Agnes Sorrel, Mr. Don's, 80gs. and the Gold Cup, value lOOgs. at 
Lamberton; 60gs. and 501. at Kelso 3 130gs. at Dumfries ; also 
lOOgs. and 50g8. at Ayr 7 

3. Bay Filly, (dam by Beningbrough) Mr. Littlewood's, 50l. at 
Beverley 1 

3. Brown Colt, (Brother to Laurel-LeaO Lord Queensberry's, 50g8. 

at Ayr ; ; • l 

o 2 3. Brown^ 



120 THE SFORUNG MAGA2INK 

Jges. No.ofPtiuf, 

3. Brown Colt, (out of Merryfidd*^ dam) Mr. Jaqties*8, seA. at 

Stockton 1 

3. Cat, (Sister to Black Diamond) Lord G. H. Cavendishes, lOOgs. 

40C^s. 8ll. 10s. and lOC^s. at Newmarket. 4 

3. Don Julian, Mr. BurtOn*s, tbe Gold Cup, value lodgn, and 501. at 

Beverley 3 also twice 50l. at Grimsby ....:.... . . 4 

7. Laurel-Leaf, Mr. T. Dancombe's, die Gold <kip, value lOOgs. at 

Durham v -....••.« ^ « l.*- 1 ^- 1 

3. Langold^ Mr. T. Duncombe*s, the Doncaster Stakes of 150g8. at 

Doncaster , ^ ♦ 1 

3. Viscount, Mr. Acred*s, 70I. at Durham, and 50l. at Nottingham -, 

Mr. Wilson's, the Gold Cup, value lOOgs. with 50g8. in specie, 

at Pontefract ; Mr. Acred's, lOOl. at Doncaster . . ., 4 

BY STAR. 

S. Mr. Gundy, Mr. Day's, 50gs. and 75gs. at; Lewes j Mr. Spence's, 
40gs. and 501. at Bedford • 4 

BY STAVBLEY. 

3. Little Gipsy, Mr. BettisOD*s, 50g8. at Nottingham ^ 

BY STRIDE. 

3. Skip, Mr. N. B. Hodgson's, SlOgs. at Pontefract. 1 

BY STRIPLING. 

5, Oct avian, Duke of Leeds's, one of the Subscription Purses of 2331. 
i5s: at York, and 15pgs. at Doncaster 2 

BY TEDDY THE .GRINDER. 

^. Barbara, Mr. Calley's, 50l. at Maddington ; 50gs. at Salisbiiryi 
and JOOgs. at Kingscote ,. ^ 3 

4. Charlotte, Mr. Burgh's, 45gs. at Goodwood , 1 

7. Discount, Mr. Andrew's, 200gs. at Newmarket, and 501. at Stam- 
ford 2 

4. Shoestrings, Mr. Cope's, the Gold Cup, value lOOgs. at Goodwood^ 
and IlOgs. at Maddington „ 2 

BY TOTTERIDGE. 

3. Brown Colt, Mr. Richardson's, 60I. at Reading 1 

3. Jesse, Mr. Mills's, lOOgs. at Maddington, and 75gs* ^^ Salisbury . . 2 

a. Johnny Raw, Mr. Cramp's, 125gs. and 50gs. at Canterbury 2 

a. Widow Whisp, Mr. Lockley's, 50gs. at Oxford 1 

BY TROMBONE. 

4. Caroline, Mr. Pearce^s, the Gold Cup, value lOOgs. at Lewes, and 

50l.at Reading 2 

BY TRUMPATOR. 

3. Anastasia, General L. Gower's, 200gs. at £gham, and lOOgs. at 

Newmarket » 2 

3. Bodkin, Mr. Mellish's, 50gs. and 50l. at Newmarket 2 

3. Chesnut Colt, (out of Garland) General Gower's, 300gs. at New- 
market • • , «,•••. ^ 

5. Dimity, 



THE SPORTING MAX5AZJNE. j^: 

Agts, No. of PmeJk 

5. Ditnity^ Mr. Craven's, 700gs. at Newmarket; LortT LowtUer'a^ .*. 

. lOOgs. at Stamford; the Gold Cup^ value lOOgs. at Cbeliusibrd ^ . 

and 501. at Newmarket , . ^ ; ^ 4 

4. Hydaspes^ Mr. Shakespear's, 200gfi. and 50g8« at Newmarkets. . . .. 2f 

6. Japan, Lord Lowther's, 50gs. at Newmarket I 

4, Jolter, Mr. Shakespeafs, 200gs. 50gs. 30gs. and lOgs. at New« ': 

. market , i 4- 

4. Merry-go-round, Lord G. H. Cavendi8h*8, the Port Stakes ofSQOgi, .T. 

twice. 300gs. and 200gs. at Newmarket ..,./.. 4 

5. Oporto, Mr. Neale's, received lOl. at Huntingdon O 

6. Salvator, Bake o€ Rutland's, 225gs. at Newmarket v 1 

a. Taffy, Colonel Cooke's, 45gs. at Chelmsford , { J. 

7. Tumbler, Mr. Shakespeare's^ lOOgs. 300g8. lOOgs. and 150gs* aft . 
. Newmarket ^^ . 4 

BY VERMIN. 

4. Barrossa, Lord G. H. Cavendish's, lOOgs. 50gs. lOOgs. and 200gs. 

at Newmarket 4 

4. Slang, Mr. Canning's, 50l. at Ludlow ; 50gs. at Warwick ; 50gs. 

atLichfield, and J 131. at Stafford 4 

BY VERNATOR. 

8. Romeo, Mr. C. Dundas*s, 600gs. at Newmarket ;"^85gs. and 50L 

at Maddington ; iBOgs. at Stockbridge ; 501. at Abingdon ; als6 ' 
60gs. at Burderop •. 6 

BY WALTON. 

4. Atalanta, Mr. Blake's, 40gs. at Newmarket ........ i . 1 1 

4. Bay Colt, (out of Currycomb's dam) General Qower's, the Claret 
Stakes of gOOgs. and lOOOgs. at Newmarket 2 

4. Bolter, Major Wilson's, 150gs. and QOgs. at Newmarket; received 
20gs. at Ipswich^ and won 501. at Bedford ^ 3 

3. Chesnut Colt, (dam by Buzzard) Lord Sackville's, 50gs. at New- 
market 1 

3. Evington-Lass, Sir J. Hony wood's, 70g8. at Canterbury 1 

4. Fulminator>Mi'. Painter's, 60gs. and 50?. at Nantwich j 60gs. at 

Newcastle, Staffordshire j the King's Purse of lOOgs. at Lich- 
field J and 501. at Burton-upon-Trent 5 

4. Nimrod, Duke of Grafton's, 501. at Newwfiarket l 

4. Phantom, Sir J. Shelley's, SOgs. 200g8. and twice 300gs. at New* 

. market J 4 

3. Spotless, Major Wilson's, 200gs. at Newmarket ; 200gs. at Don- 
caster) and 150gs. at Newmarket 3 

3. Tooley, Mr. Craven'?, twice 200gs. 35gs. the Town Plate of 71I. 
5dOgs. 50g8. 200gs. and pOgs. at Newmarket 8 

BY WARRIOR. 

g, Boadicea, Mr. Clifton's, 375gs. at Knutsford 1 

BY WARTKR. 

5. Young Warter, Mr. Bell's, 50g8. at Edinburgh , 1 

BY WAXY. 

St Crispin^ Mr. Payne's^ 500gs. at Newmarket , . . . l 

4. Flodoardo, 



Itt THE 6PC^TIN« MAGAZINE. 

4^. No, of Ptv^ 

4. Flodotrdo, Mr. Price's^ 60gs. at Chester, and 50gt. at Knutaibrd. . 2 

3. Handel, Lord 6. H. Carendish's^ SOQgs. at Newmarket 1 

0. Illumination, Mr. fiatsoo's, tmce^Ogs. at Newmarket 2 

3* Joe Miller, Duke oi Gra£ton*s, twice lOOgs. 40g8. and 45gs. at 

Newmarket 4 

2. July, Lord F. G. Osbome*8, 530gs. lOOgs. and 50l. at Newmarket 3 
7. Poke, Mr..\Ve8ton*$, 50g8. at Ascot 1 

3. Po|>e Joan, Duke of Grafton's, the King*s Purse of lOOgs. at Ips- 

wich J the Queen's Purse of lOOgs. at Chelmsford ; also 25Gigs. 

and lOOgs. at Newmarket 4 

0. Speculation, Colonel Wyudham's, 50gs. at Newmarket 1 

5. Vexation, Sir J. Shelley's, lOOgs. at Newmarket i 

5, Whalebone, Duke of Grafton's, a King's Purse of lOQgs. and 501 

at Newmarket -, the Gold Cup, vsilue IO(^s« with 60gs. in specie, 
at Northampton ; Mr. Ladbroke's, lOOgs. and 200gs. at New- 
ttiarket 5 

3. Woeful, Duke of Grafton's, 200gs. 150gs. 200gs. and 80gs. at 

Newmarket 4 

BY WHISKEY. 

5. Ad-Libitum, Mr. Powell's, twice 50l. at Cardiff^ 50gs. and twice 

501. at Swansea $ also twice 50l. at Haverford-West « J 

4. Coniac, Mr. Bayzand's, 50l. at Worcester 1 

6. Fair-Star, Sir C. Bunbury's, 50gs. at Newmarket 1 

7. Juniper, Major Wilson's, the King's Purse of l(X)gs. at Lewes. ... 1 

3. Pupil, Mr. Fortb's, 60gs. at Egham 1 

4. Rival, Sir C. Bunbury's, 800gs. and lOOgs. at Newmarket 2 

4. Sprightly, Mr. Forth's, 30gs. at Newmarket; Mr. Blake^s, twice 

501. at Epsom; 230gs. and 50l. at Ascot; also the Gold Cup, 
value lOOgs. with 40gs. in specie, and 50l. at Sgham 7 

3. Tilbury, Mr. Bacon's, ^61. at Abingdon; also I25gs. and 3pgs. at .. 

Newbury , 3 

BY YOUNG WBISKBY. 

5. Anthonlo,*Lord Jersey's, lOOgs. at Newmarket ..• ' 

5. Erebus, Major Wilson's, 50gs. at Swali'bam, and 50gs. at New- 
market , 2 

4. Kangaroo, Sir H. Lippiucott's, lOOgs. at Maddington ; 50gs. at . 

Bibury ; 5Ql. at Bath ;' and 50l. at Taunton 4 

BY YOUNG WOODPECKER. 

4. Slemler Billy, Mr. Scaiisbrick's, the Gold Cup, value lOQgs, with 

lOgs. in specie, at Newton ; QOgs. at Lancaster ; the Gold Cup, 
value lOOgs. with 230gs. in specie, at Preston; Mr. Glover's, 
]20gs. the King's Purse of lOOgs. and the Gold Cup, value 
125g8. ait Doncaster * 6 

5. Woodman, Mr. N/B. Hodgson*s, 70I. at Lancaster, and the King's 

Purse of lOOgs. at Carlisle ^ 

BY METEOR OH DIAMOND. 

3. Ambo, Mr. Price's, 200i»s. I40gs. and 50gs. at Chester; ISOgs. 
QOgs. and 50gs. at HoUvwelt-Hunt ; also a Stakes at Tarjiorley 

Hun^. I 7 

at 



tUB SPORTING MAGAZIISIS. 



^g^. 



123 
No. of PHx€$. 



BT SIR PETER OR BENIKTGBROUGH. 

4 Coelebs, Mr. Halletfs, 40g8. and 501. at Stockbridge ; 501. at Win- 
chester; 50gs. at Reading ; 130gs. atKingsooce; also 70gs. and 
50gs. atNewbary. 7 



ADDITIONS TO mOSU^ GIVEN IN OUR NUMBER FOR NOVEMBER. 

BT CHANCE. 

3. Bay Colt, (dam by Ant»us) Mr. Scaife*8, lOOgs. at Doncaster . • . « 1 

BY OELPINt. 

4. Grey Gelding, (dam by Shuttle) Mr. W. Artley's, 501. at Beverley 1 

5. Ironsides, Mr« Brett*s,. <two Gold Cups at Burton Hunt 2 

BT DRlViSR. 

3. Bay Tiny, Mr. Marris's, 701. at Barton I 



■ ' I i.f i I 1 1. ^ I ■ ■ 



LIST OF STALLIONS TO COVER IN 1813. 



The F^es before «teh Horse's Name, denote his Age at May Bay, ttt$. 



7. A SHTON, at Mr. Adam 
Dunn's, Morton, near 
Northallerton, Yorkshire, at lOgs. 
and iOs. 6d, — Got by Walnut, (or 
Serpent) ^ dam. Miss Kawortb, by 
SpadiUc, Ckyball-Marsk, Herod» 
out of a Sister to Doctor, by Grold* 
£nder, Sedley Arabian, iPox, kc. 

13. fiAEBARosiA, at Stoke Bi- 
shops two miles from Bristol, at 
6gs. and a half. — ^By Sir Peter; 
dam, Mulespinner, by Guildford, 
out of Jemima, (Sister to Mexico) 
hy Snap, Match*eraL &c. 

10. CamilluS, fifty Mares, be- 
sides those of bis owner, at Mid- 
diet bor|)e, near York, at 20gs. and 
one guinea. — By Hambletonian ; 
dam. Faith, (Marcia and Vesta's 
dam) by Facolet; grandam, Ata- 
ianta, by Match'em, out of Mr. 
Coat9s*8 Lass of the Mill, by 
Oroonoko, Old Traveller, &c. 

12. Castrel, at Duxbury, near 
Chorley, Lancashire, at lOgs. and 
a half."— By Buzzard ; dam by Al« 



exander. Highflyer, Alfred, Engi« 
neer, out of Bay Malton's dam, by 
Cade, &c. 

13. Cjssario, at Cannock, Staf- 
fordshire, at lOgs. and one guinea. 
*— By John Bull 5 dam, Olivia, by 
Justice ; Cypher, by Squirrel, out 
of Fribble's dam, by Regulus, Bart- 
lett's Cbilders, &c. 

8. Cestrian, at Oulton> near 
Tarporley, Cheshire, at 5g8. and a 
half. — By Gob anna; dam, Mar- 
tha, by Woodpecker; grandan& 
Venu$r (Sister to Mercury and Ju- 

?iter) by Eclipse, out of the Old 
^artar Mare, &c. 
15. Cheshirb - Chbeib, at 
Knutsfonl, Cheshire, at 5gs. and 
a half. — ^By Sir Peter; dam, 
Georgiana, by Sweetbriar; Ca- 
pella, by Herod, out of Miss Cape, 
by Regulus, Crab, &c. 

8. Clinker, at Mr. Butler's, 
Killamarsb, near Chesterfield, Der- 
byshire, at 5gs. and a half. — By 
Sir Peter ; dam, Hyale, by Pheno- 

nomenon. 



V 



324 THE SPORTING MAQAZOfA 

iK>iliet)ds ; Rally, by TriHnpator, 8. Gnat- ho ! at Thatclwv, 

out of t^anny, (Sister to Diomed) Berks, at 5g8. ami a half. — By Sir 

by Florizd, Spectator, &c. Peter ; dain. Gnat, by Florizel, 

8. Crim-Con# at Padnals Grove, Herod, out of a Sister to Guider, 

Barking, Essex, at 5^s. — By Go- by'Matcb'em, Blank, Babra|u, &c. 
Aanna ] damj (Sister to Horns) by ' 11.* Golumpus, at Mr. Hors- 

Precipitate, Woodpecker, Swefet- ley's, Low-Catton, near Kexby- 

briar, out. of Buzzard's dano; by Bridge, seven nulea from York, at 

Dux ', Curiosity, by Snap, &c. lOgs. and a half. — By Gobanna -, 

10. Deceiver, at Haugbton, dam, Catherine, (own Sister to 

tiear Dartington, Durham, at 8gs. Colibri) by Woodpecker; Camilla, 

— By Buzzard ; dam by IVen- liy Trentham ; Coquette, by the 

tbam 3 grandam, ' Cythcrea, (Sis- ()omptoQ Barb, oat of the Sister 

ter to Drone) by Herod ; Lily, by to Rt^nhis, by the GodirfphiDAra- 

Blank j Peggy, by Cade, out of a bian. — He is the Sire of Beverley, 

Sifter to th^ VViddcington Mare, Cattm, Unde ^oby, and Ottering' 

by Fartuer, &c. ton, the winner of the St. Leger, 

i6. Dick Andrews, at New- 1812. 
market, by Subscription, not more 9. Gustavus, at Mr. Perry*s, 

than fifty mares, at 25gs. and one at £aviUe, Dear Stourbridge, at 

guinea. — By Joe Andrews ; clam 3gs. and a crown. — By Beuiug- 

by Highflyer, Cardinal Puff, Tat- brougb ; dam, Scotilla, by Ad-viI, 

ler. Snip,' Godolphin Arabian, out outofScota, by Eclipse, Herod, 

of Old Whiteneck, by the Pelbam &c. 
Barb. ' 16, Haphazard, by Subscrip- 

13. Ditto, (Wittiamsot/s) at tion, at Mr. Morland's, Newniar- 

Snitteufield, . near Stratford-on- ket Farm, Finchley, Middlesex, 

Avon, at lOgs. and a half. — He is fifty mares, besides those of bis 

own Brother to Walton, by Sft* owner; at I2gs. and one guinea.—* 

Peter; dam by Duiigannon, Pro- By Sir Peter, out of Miss Herrey, 

pbet, out of Virago, (Saltram*^ bV Eclipse, Young Cade, &c. 
dam) by Snap. ' " 10. HEDLEY,at WingfieldPlace, 

10. Doctor, at Troy Farm, near Windsor, Berks, at Sgs. and 

near Monmouth', at 5gs. and 5s. — a half. — He is own Brother to 

— ^By Precipitate; dam. Penny- Golumpus. 

trumpet, (Elizabeth's dam) by 10. Julius C-ksar, at Melton - 

Trumpatof, but of Young CamiHa, Mowbray, Leicestershire, at 5gs. 

by* Woodpecker. and a crown. — By Alexander j dam, 

* "6. Ea±6n, at Stoke-Place, near Constantia, by Sir Peter ; gran- 
Windsor, at lOgs. and one guinea, dam* by Mungo ; Thisbe, by La- 
— Py Sir Pefer; dam, Nike, by tham*sSnap: Sappho, by Regiil us, 
Alexander; Nimble, by Fiorizel; out of Mr. Lodge's Roan Mare, by 
Rantipole, by Blank, out of Joan, Partner. 

"(S/stei- to Careless) by Regulus. 8. Juniper, at Alexton, near 

* 6. Pitz-Tbazle, at the same Uppingham, Leicestershire-, at 
place as Camillus, at '5gs. and 5s!. lOgs-. and one guinea. — ^By Whis- 
* — By Sir Peter ; dam. Hornpipe, key; dam, Jenny Spinner, by 
by Triinipator ; Luna, by Herod, Dragon ; grandam, (St. George*s 
out of Proserpijie, the Sister to dam, and Sister to Soldier) by 
Eclipse, by Marsk. • Eclipse, out of Miss Spindleshank», 

by 



iTHB SPORTING MAGA2aNB. 



12# 



By Omar, StarUng^Godolphiii Ara* 

7. BLkaMtOK^ at Oxcroft, ten 
miles from Newiaarket, at 5gs. 
add a half.— -By Whiskey; dam. 
Young Noisette, by Diomed ', 
grandam, Noisette, by Squirrel; 



Voiuntcef, out of a Sitter t<> Sting, 
by Herod, Cygnet, ftc. 

18. Striplin©, neaify oppostfe 
the York Baftacks, »t 8gR. an^ a 
ha!f.— — -By Phenomenon ; dain» 



To be conHmt^ 



35*: 



JUDGMENT FOB SENJMNG A 
GHALLBNGIL 

COURT OF KrN6*S BBIfCIV, VrSSf* 
MINSTEa, NOV. 27. 



Laura, by Eclipse; graiKfam, (bred. 

_ by the late John Atkinson, Fjsq,. 

Carina, by Marsk, Blank, oat of of Scholes, Yorkshire) by I^enst^ 

the Ancaster Dizzy, by Driver. (a well-bred Son of Old Crab) i 

14. OaviLLt, at Mr. Kirby's great gramlani by Csde, out of 
Stables, York, by Subscription, Miss Makeless, by Yoong Ofey'V 
fifty mares, at 20g9. each. — By Be- hound, &c, 
ningbrough, out of Evelina, by 
Highflyer, Tantrani, &c. 

,8. Petkonius, at Middlethorpe, 
near York, at 6gs.— By Sir Peter 5 
dam, Louisa, by Javelin, Herod, 
Snap, out of Chalkstone's dam, 
by Shepherd's Crab; Miss Mere- 
dith, by Cade, Little Hartley Mare, 
&c. 

9. PiONEEH, at Euston, neaf T^« Kinf. v. Francia Aikin, Eiq. 

Thetford, Norfolk, at 5gs. and a HTHIS day, the defendant, y. 

half. — Own Brother to Pelisse, by Aikin, Esq. on the motion of th^ 

Whiskey, out of Prunella, the dam Solicitor-General, was brought up 

of Penelope, Parasol, Pope, Pope to receive judgment^ for sending a 

Joan, &c, challenge to, and posting, Lieute^ 

8. PaiKTCE Regent, (formerly nant James Beaumont DeJap, at 

iSoroost^r) at Ospringe, near Fa ver- lbbetson*s Coffee-bouse, and else«> 

sham, ten miles from Canterbury, where, in the month of April last.* 

at4gs*-<— By Sorcerer; dam, Loui- An affidavit from Lieutenant 

sa, by An<fient Pistol, out of Ca- Delap was then put in, which, iu 

lash, by Herod, Mateh*em, &c. substance, went to state, that he 

15. Qui2, at Henham-Halt, near entered the 1st Regiment of Royal 
Wapgford, Suffolk, at lOgs. and a Dragoons, in January, 1807* He 
l)|ilf.-^By Buzzard ; dam, Miss was then warned, by Some of the 
West, by Match'em, Regulus, officers, to avoid the defendant, 
Crab, Chiiders, Basto. who was Lieutenant of the Regi« 

13. RbmembHakcer, at Bo- ment, as a person of a quarrelsome 

roughbridge, Yorkshire, at ](^s. disposition; lie did so avoid him« 



and a half.— *-By Pipator; dam. 
Queen Mab, by Eclipse, out of the 
Old Tartar Mare, the dam of Jupi- 
ter, Mercury, &c. 

9. RosAHio, at Wem, near 
Shrewsbury, at 5gs. and a half. — 
"Jij Ambixisio; dam, Portia, by 



and did not recollect to have had 
any dispute with him afitecedenJt 
to the quarrel which induced him 
to pursue the steps th^ait lei to bn 
present situation ; on the contrary, 
compassionating the situation d 
defendant, who was avoided by all 



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tbe officers of the reginotent, save 
Captain Webster and aootber gen- 
tleman, be made a proposition, 
tbat on the Christmas-day, which 
was then approaching, he should 
$»k bim to take a glass of wine 
with them, and thus for the whole 
Ikitsi to cast into obli%'ion their 
causes of difference, and restore 
bim to a society from which, al- 
though living amongst it> he was 
\>y his own conduct totally debar* 
red. A propositipn of this sort 
was marie to defendant, but he re- 
fused to accept it, unless some apo- 
logy was ma<le, a demand which 
could not be acceded to, and thus 
be remained at variance with the 
whole corps, save two Gentlemen 
already alluded to. On the l6th 
of Februar^^ 1808, the regiment 
being at Lewes, eight of the offi- 
cers were assembled to dinner in 
the mess-room, of these deponent 
and defendant constituted a part ; 
Captain Webster was also present, 
.and was the only person with whom 
defendant conversed. After din- 
.ner, however, a sort of general 
conversation having taken place, 
some allusions were made by de- 
fendant to the probability of the 
^Russian soldiery, under the com- 
mand of French officers, marching 
over-Iai}d to attack our East In- 
dian possessions. Deponent ca- 
sually remarked, that they would 
have a march of 30CX) miles to per- 
form. To thisdefeudant demurred, 
and a sort of altercation ensued, 
which terminated by defendant ap- 
proaching deponent at a moment 
when he was stooping down, and 

Sutting his face extremely close to 
i$, saying, .*' You are a d — d im- 
pertinent fellow, and I have long 
wished for an opportunity to tell 
you so." Deponent then raised 
bittself up, and in a moment of 
iffitation gave him a slap on the 



cheek, and desired him to removr 
his nose from his breast. Deteud* 
ant returned the blow, and tbeo 
seized the poker, and was about tq 
strike deponent, but was prevented 
by Captain Webster. Some fur- 
ther violence was attem|ited, but 
was also prevented. Captain Web- 
ster and Captain Quick tben drew 
up a statement of the wbole affair 
to submit it to tbe Commanding 
Officer, and they were both yhcd 
under arrest. While thus sUuated, 
defendant wrote a letter to depo- 
nent, in which he adverted to tbe 
propriety of their taking advantage 
of the absence of Colonel Fuller, 
and as they could not have the as- 
sistance; of friends^ proposing that 
they should meet the nextmorniog 
with their servants, and decide their 
difference. To this letter deponeut 
Returner] for answer, that so sooq 
as he could, consistently with his 
military duties, give the proposed 
meeting, defendant would tind him 
by no means disposed to throw any 
difficulty in the way of it. De- 
fendant now obtained leave to sell 
his commission, in order to avoid 
being called to a Court-Martialfor 
his conduct; and he actually did 
sell his cornetcy. 

The officers of the regiment hav- 
ing signed a memorial to tbe Com- 
mander in Chief, in favour of de- 
ponent, he was permitted to retMO 
his rank, without the form of a 
Court-Martial. In the month of 
A pril following, deponent l>eing at 
Brighton, he received another let- 
ter from defendant, calling upon 
him to meet hinf at East Grinstead, 

alone, provided with pistols. B«l 
this invitation he also refused, by 
the advice of his brother officers. 
—There were other letters to the 
same effect, to which deponent 
paid no attention, until from their 
frequent repetition, by the advice 

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t>f hte friends, he had defendant 
iield to bail for one year, to keep 
the peace. No sooner, however, 
liad tbig period elapsed, than de- 
fendant renewed bis exertions to 
procure a meeting, and at length 
posted deponent at Ibbetson's and 
Dtber hotels, as a '* scoundrel and 
coward'" and this it was which 
led to the present proceedings. 

Mr. Espinasse for the defendant 
said, that the situation of his cli- 
ent was one which was particularly 
calculated to excite the compassion 
«nd commiseration of every feeling 
heart. As it had appeared, from 
Ills own statement, he entered the 
army at the early age of eighteen. 
His feelings, therefore, might be 
called purely military — and, if he 
was guilty of any error at all, it 
was attributable more to his edu- 
cation than to any malignant dis- 
position of bis beat t. It should be 
recollected, that he stood in the 
situation of a British Officer, who 
had been grossly insulted by a per- 
son inferior to himself in rank, and 
that from the refusal of that per- 
son to give him honourable and 
gentlemanly satisfaction, he was 
subject to the greatest of all dis- 
graces, a total exclusion from his 
Majesty's service. It was evident 
that his persevering efforts to ob- 
tain an adjustment of the dispute 
in question had arisen, not from a 
feeling of malice or revenge, but 
rather from a wish to place himself 
in a situation in society, which 
would qualify him for an applica- 
tion to the Commander in Chief, 
once more to restore him to the 
profession for which, by his early 
habits, he was alone qualified. — . 
£very time he contemplated his 
present situation, compared with 
ivbat it might have been, new 
caitses of irritation naturally 
woitld ai ise, aad «rvery exprtssion 



of praise; which be saw bestowed 
in the Gaiiette, on his former com- 
panions, led him to feel still more 
sensibly the loss be had sustained, 
while the iNecollection of having ail 
infant daughter to support, render* 
ed these feelings still more poig« 
nant. Under all these circum* 
stances, the learned Counsel hoped 
the Court would be disposed to ex- 
tend towards him their indulgence, 
and, at least, to allow, that he had 
not acted without some causes for 
discontent. 

Mr. Garrow having addressed 
the Court in support of the prose* 
cution, and in reprobation of the 
defendant's conduct, 

LordEUenborough directed bitn 
to be committed to the custody of 
the Marshal of the Court, and be 
brought up again next day to re* 
ceive judgment. 

Mr. Justice Grose, in pronourtc-^ 
ing the sentence of the Court, ob- 
served, that there was something 
very peculiar in the defendant's 
case — it was marked with an un« 
common and unusual degree of 
malignity. For more than four 
years, from 1808 to 1812, he had 
suffered the remembrance of what 
he assumed to be a studied insult to 
rankle in his mind, and during the 
whole of that time, he had availed 
himself of all possible opportuni- 
ties, of all attainable means, of en- 
deavouring to provoke Mr. Delap 
to fight a duel. Fortunately, hoWr 
ever, those efforts had been vain;- 
and the defendant had good rea- 
son, as long as he lived, to be 
grateful to the prosecutor for not 
having accepted the challenge : had 
be complied, one, most likely, 
would have been murdered^ and 
the surviving duellist would have 
ever after been branded with tha 
name of murderer ! It was fortu«i 
Bate that circumstancat tfsd t^tm 

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126 TUB SPORTINO BIAOAZINE. 

«ttcb • course } but the wbole of neferdieless^ come hi for A teW 

the defeodflnt's ciHKiuct i<i fb'ie reiaai-ks at the -dose of this •rti* 

tram«ction shewed the absolute cle. 0( the first and seeesd clas- 

necessity of exerting the authority ses aUove*aientk>ned« and iBclutl* 

of the Co(irt» to protect the prose- iag the higher orders of merchants 

cutor from outrage, and to prevent* and trtidt^rs, &c. the females ef 

if possible, further breaches of the euch were adorned in fashioo's 

law hy the defendant. I'he sen* ^ycst attire, cKhibiting their 

fence of the Court was — ^That the charms from the elegant baroudtf, 

defendant be imprisoned in the or at intervals pacing with grace- 

Kifl^ J Beach priiioi^ ior the space ful ste|)s within the lines of the 

of Sin Calendar Mofdhf ; and at ix>urse. tvendemeii Farmeis flhiri 

the expiration of chat term« to give c/otir), with their wives and daogfa* 

security for his good behaviour for ters, the latter perhafis atteaikd by 

S^iftm Ymirt, himself in SQOL and some favoured swain or swains^ 

two sunedes in 250l.€acW* • fiersous of this description are oflca 

-- ' - -'-' ■ ■■' ■ ■ T ■ ' - €onfouode<{ with the comse aod 



TIIELADT AX£GfiABIliAC£S. vulgar rustics, celled farmers; 

H ^mind .SuthingMm « Iktigu % Mr. ^^^^ we allude to, on the oontrarjr, 

I>Avis. are such of both sexes aa haveie- 

■ ceived good educaticiw, and whe^ 

^TTER the «port at the last Eg- in dress., habit, and roanncsn, ap* 

ham Races, a Journalist (Edi* pear hut little inferior to thoeeef 

tor of the Covmiy Herald) giive a the aecoml class ; the females hriag- 

fanciful Account of the conspany ing with them no hafd^nied Chesp 

assembled there, and in which was side faces, but oottnten«Mrcs4:lttar- 

introduoedthesubjectof this Etch- i^\ as the morn, aJMl comfplexifl« 

ii\g— Me Lady at Egham Races. blushu^ as ^e mew^Ooim rost. 

As the account has not appeared The next oiaiss ffpittih), «be mid* 

in our 3\Jiscellauy, we ihall give it dling country tradesoien Aodsmsl* 

as in the PafMir alluded to, and |er innkeepers, though aomewte 

which closes with notice of the less refined than th^ fvecidiiig, yit 

lady in question. they, by ^nest ind««ry and ap* 

" Tbese Races were never better plication in tlwir callkigs* ti^eaie 

attended in any year preceding the tlmt none shall t»uX¥ie thw jtpoutff 

present. The company was nume- in gay apparel «t fighMS ritcts^ 

rous, and consisted of Nobility N. B. The hii^QBt order of ins* 

and Gentry, the first class j of keepers should be cibssed with ths 

Gentry of the second class ; of gentleman faitaitrs fkhrteij. The 

Gentlemen Farmers, a third class i daughters Of ^cae, .with the early 

the %ixa^ and daughters of indus- ac<|uirements4»f a l>oardmg^»scfaooi, 

try, viz. middling tradesmen, inn- and by their ffvoeful nnd ^ohligii)^ 

Ifceqjcrs, and ^jublicans, a four4h demeauiu* wlieo at haoK* attncC 

tiass: and fifth, of survants and <ind secure the rc^giird of their sa« 

others inihe bumbler walks of Jife. periors.— tR/IA clas$.i In point of 

The company from London were ueatuess and appeanioce, John tbs 

composed of such a inultifarious fuotumn> with his ielkMv-servmt 

collection ojf personages, high and Mary, come next under cofts idera- 

low., thiit AlLclassitication of them ti<m': he in eleao white stockings, 

i| imjpossibl^ Part of theui jiis^Y^ «wl . fiU things rythpfNimfafi, ai«i 

^ ' she 



sbe equally smatt^ witb straw boQ* but be tbat as it may sbe proved 

net^ &c. tbe piptuw «f b«aUh« b^self jis cojjrageous a rider as 

chearl:ul as May ; Mary tall, and ever sat a hQr&e. On going to tbe 

well dressed, and perhaps band- Races the first day, a Dragoou 

sbmer (a crying sin in a servant) Oiiicer attempted to keep up with 

cbau her mistress.— {{aving no in- her between Bedfont and Stanes, 

cli nation to descant on tbe qnalifi- but she ganre bim tbe ^ ^y wil|i 

cations, &c. of tbe low and the vid** ease, and left the m^m of war « dis- 

gar, a few general observations tancebebmd. 

must suffice: of those visitors from r r ' = 



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London, as already observed, no A SiNGULAE MOD£ OF DISCO* 
delineation can be pencilled— tbe VliRIKG IBIfiHM«:N. 
offensive term Black Leg is fre- COM£« years ago, a mimber «f 
tjuently ap|jlied to Sporting Gen- facetious gentlemen «iiigrat« 
tletnen who attend and bet at races ; ed from tbe province of Ulster to 
but without them, what amuse- FhilaMpbia. On their 'arrival ia 
nieitt would races afford ?— ^Tbere that city they pertunbidated the 
may, in all classes of society, be streets, but weve astonished tbat 
found instances of deviations from they had not met a single Iris^bman 
the rul^ of right 5 but with no set during tbe whole of their jperegri- 
of men is the point of honour nation. In the evening, 4iatuFaHy 
mope 4-igidly observed, than among expressing to each other their sur- 
tbose sportsmen, the higher classes piise and disappointment eu the 
of Black Legs, occasion 3 John Simpson, of Li- 
Lord Cranley, with several other nen Hiil, Esq. a man possessed of 
four ■•in-hand amatetirs, were pre- infinite natural humour, undertook 
littnt ; their adroitness in tbe useef to discovei* his countrymen, if they 
the ribkonSy with ^hod^ ^ape, and were not involved in everlasting 
motion, ^xoiced 'universal admira- sleep. With a basket over Iriaann, 
Cipn^ nor was Mr. Coates, with bis he sallied forth into thestceet, an^ 
cQchs and gay eurricle, and splen- with a well-toned tenor ^o4ce, 4io 
did lappoMttments, less an object of began to cry out in musical recita- 
notice : but let not the Noble Lord t i vo, *' Fine Oysters, fre^ Cm'lisig'' 
yist ^jDientioned, or any of his bro- ford Oysters,'^ 'Roused and aste- 
tber'w>hips, nor Mr. Coates, or any nisbed at tbe well-known sounds^ 
of «he e(|uestrians at tbe races, every emigrant from Dandalk^ 
presume to attempt rivalship with Newry, Armagh, Lurgao^ Rich* 

Mrs. r-. This 4ady, on horse- bill, and Portsdown,4n short, every 

hack, attended by a aervant in Hibernian that had enjayedtb^fla- 

crimson Hveiy, proved herself as vour of that delicious £fh, tur- 

bold a rkler as any in the field ^ rounded him in less than twenty 

she never relaxed from galloping at minutes. Delighted with tbe fer- 

fuU s(ieed at the 9tarting of the tiltty of his invention, about two 

borsw, /and returning with equal hundred of them aocompaiiie<l him 

awrftness ou their coming in; nor to his lodging, and though there 

was nim beautiful creature averse were neitber jfres^ Carlin^ord «y» 

to ofiiertng or taking a bet, when Hers, n0r fresh Dublvt Btuf kir^ 

sbe saw causes for «o. doing. Who rings there, they spent tbe evening 

Ike Lady is y^ know not $ eome in social converse, and in pouring 

tay slie .wai at dbewes (where she £orth duelibaiiiona to tbewetfare^ 

lamed her horse), aud at Epsom, their^eomnion parent. Old Ireland. 

FEAST 



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FE*4ST OF WIT. 



ii Yoime Ministerial Memheri 
uii&ccustoiDed to such scenes as 
that which was presented in the 
House of Commons on Monday, 
the 21st instant, by Sir Francis 
Burdett (when the Hon. Baronet 
dashed on the floor a small ioaf> 
the miserable daily allowance of 
felpns in a county prison in the 
West), on perceiving the ghost of 
the loaf thrown on the floor, in« 
stantly started up, and said to a 
friend near him, *' D — n it> there 
come the loaves, but where the 
d — I are the^^ies ?** 

A Country Schoolmaster, pc* 
rasing one of the late French BuU 
lettus, instead of Cossacks, read, 
with great indignation, *• We 
have taken several hundred cas^ 
sacks r—*' Surely," said he, "Di- 
vine vengeancemust overtake those 
wretches, who tiius dare to plunder 
the poor Clergy T 

Ov£R a tobacconist's shop in 
Westminster is a board, on which 
are painted three hands, holding a 
pinch of snu^, a pipe, and a quid 
of tobacco; and underneath is 
written this delicious couplet :— ^ 



helieve> has discovered the philoso- 
pher's stone^--rever since his wife 
left biro, he dashes in the first 
style."— " Fob J poh !" observed 
the other, " you mistake the mat* 
ter — Q. has not found the philoso^ 
pher's stone, but his wife has pre- 
sented him with a cornucopia," 

A HINT TO MAHY JLUKB, 

f Confined three yean for r^utins to di> 
close the Father of her Bastard Uu'id.J 

A WOMAN could not safely swear. 
To whom belong'd her infant : 

The Justice said she must declare. 
Or go to gaol that instant 

*» Oh give me then the book,*' she cried, 
" If I must swear, why rot it, 

The truth I williio longer hide. 
It was your Worship got it." 



A New Mode of rewarding Merit. 
—A. few days since as a party of 
officers, at Battle Barracks, were 
in conversation on the military at* 
chievements of Marquis Welling-* 
ton, and on the reward due to his 
Talour, one of them, an honesty 
blunt Hibernian, in the plenitude 
of his patriotism, very gravely ex- 
claimed — " By Jasus, they ought, 
at least, to make him a Prince of 
the Blood !" 



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We three is engaged in one cause ; 
I mi^fjtj I smokeSy I chaws/" 



A PEW months since, the wife of 
i( merchant, whose affairs were ge- 
nerally supposed to be in a totter- 
ing situation, eloped from him ; 
immediately after which, he ap- 
peared in greater splendour than 
ever. One of his friends, speaking 
to an acquaintance on th^ subject, 
said — '^ Our old companion, Q, 1 



A RESPECTABLE lookiBg womao 
once stole a pair of shoes in the 
warehouse of a shoe-maker of con- 
siderable sagacity. — The owner 
observed her operations in silence. 
— Some time after, the lady having 
attentively examined a second pair 
of shoes, enquired the price — 
'* Madam," said he, very gravely^ 
" tj|le shoes in your band are^s. 6d. 
the shoes in your pocket five gui- 
neas "*—T# prevent exposure, tbo^ 

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Bioneywas paid on the 9pot-^ the 
surplus over the value ot* the shoes 
was giveu to the poor. Someibing 
simiiar to this bapp^ne&l some time 
agOy in the city of Aroiagh.— ^Ro-^ 
>>ert Jackson^ £sq. observed a 
wealthy mao stealing some articles 
ID bis stores : he instantly shut tht; 
door, and opening kis ledger,^ ex* 
hibited an account of eleven years 
standing to the astonished pilferer. 
In this account he had stated every 
article that had been stolen from 
him during that period^ with the 
respective dates, under the bead of 
Thief, Debtor. " Now, Sir," said 
be, '* you see the balance you owe 
me, it is long due — ^you have made 
no remittance, there is nothing to 
your credit— pay me now or you 
march to durance vile.'* The 
frightened thief paid the money oa 
the spot, and a single entryj on the 
tide o£ Thief, Creditor, closed the 
account. 



The avenues to' the Court ^ert^ 
phoaked up, and the. doors closed ; 
the Solicitor-General was momeu* 
tarily expected, when a voice was 
heard resembling that of Sir W« 
Garrow, ** Make wajffor the SolU. 
citor-^Generaiy in an instant the 
doors flew 0{>ei)» and to the utter 
astonishment of the door-keepers^ 
instead of the learned lawyer, 
the Proteus of the stage presejited 
himself. If this facetious wight» 
who can at will be either Solicitor* 
General, or Chief Justice, had 
lived in the reign of James the 
First, he had certainly been burnt 
as ft wizard* 



One of the East India Com- 
pany's servants, who had contract- 
ed a great number of gambling 
debts, having been ordered to Luck- 
now, was met by a creditor who 
demanded payment, which was re- 
fused, on the score of a series of 
losses — *' Well," observed the cre- 
ditor, " though you cannot pay 
me at present, it will certainly be 
in your power soon, as you are in 
the direct road to Xi4cAr-now.** 



A WHIMSICAL lapms lingtt^ oc- 
curred at the Chapel Royal, Brigh- 
ton, not long since. The clerk 
there, who is often employed as a 
porter at sales, in announcing a 
sermon which would be preached 
there for the benefit of the Schools 
of Industry, accidentally concluded 
his notifiq^tion by loudly observing 
instead of the service, that the sale 
would begin precisely at eleven 
o'clock. 



An Irishman being told that a 
great part of ftie French array in 
Russia was obliged to go barefoot, 
said, he should not at all like to 
stand in their shoes. 



A NiBBRNiAN, complaining of 
the late severity of the weather, 
shrewdly remarked, that such a 
fiost in the dog days would be very 
acceptable, hut in these winter 
months it was quite intolerable, 

■ 

Among the crowd assembled 
lately in Westminster Hall, to wit- 
ness the trial of the proprietors of 
the Examiner, was Mr. Mathewt^ 



AN AFOLOGT. 

WHEN wives are the rulert, and men'i 

heads are thick. 
If told of their weakness, the spur makes 

tktrn hide ; 
Though harmless we joke, yet the proverb 

Seems verified here,—** TrtUh is not to be 
told:' 
A Fricno to the Laoics. 



Sir Frederick Flood*s late re- 
commendation in the House of 
Commons, to send Bonaparte and 
bis troops to the d — v— 1^ we fear 

would 



I«l THE SPORHNO MAOAZmi. 

would h$tft An dPeet t&ty diferent of W 4iieaiiisev«od alio scentdto 

from wfaiit tbe Barofi«t ex|i6elod. Utv for tto other objittt Imt to to« 

A clergyman once preacbiug in ttM ci€« lAaf|ir«beay«n<i deplore bii Imt* 

north df Scotknd« told hie congi^ -**«Olit>Mieniio§tf ber frkod Fither 

gaf ioo that Ih-^U was a plaee futi fcniiid ^r in attale of mental agi'^ 

ef fee and anotv^ on xvbieh tbi^ fation^'borderiofondistracfion.1-*^ 

wieked are oMig^l to sit l!Nire*botw Her departed lot e^ eke saiil^ kail 

fomed : '' For/* said he, " I knetr ap|»eared to b^ in the ntgbt^ And 

if i fold yon it was a hot place^yov nxiet perem|>torily OTdered her to 

would be all for flocking to it." enter tbe vanity wbere kis reoiaina 

' ■ ' ■ vfMie deposited^ and kave tbe eottt» 
Th£ fottowing epitapti^ made by opeiMd. Mr, Fisher remoMtrated 
a hnsbend on the decease of hie wifb ber otv tbe ahsitrdity of tbm 
second wife^ and wbo happened to idfea 9 he said thiit.tke imensky of 
be iaterred imm^iiiately adjoinin^^ ber sonNne had impaired ber istei* 
his former one, is copied from a leet } that the phaateab was the 
stone in a church -yard in the Coun* mere ere^ture of her imagwation^ 
ty of Kent :-^ and begged of ber at least to poet- 
ic tt *!. v^ * d c l><*De to flPMae futaire period ber in- 

Jl«reties the body of Sarah Sexton, 1 j . . .^ ^ -.t. ^^ i^» 

Vfhowis a $ood wife, and never vex*d tended Tisft to tbe corpse of her 

one ; bnsliand. The lady ao<|uiesced fov 

I can t say tbat of her at the next •tone. ^^^^ ^j^^ 5 j, 1^,^ l^^tieet j but tbo 

two sQcoeedtng asoroings^ tke 



O* the marriage of Mrs. Bsten gry spirit of her spotne stood at 
lo Major Scott Waring, it has been her bed-side, and with load ne« 
observed by a wit, that though the naces, repeated bis command. S. 
lady is of a certain age, she is not PisbeT, therefore) seot to the »<x- 
lAe worujor Wm'ing. tdn, and matters being arran^ad, 
< — tbe weeping widow and ber fne*d 

A Gentleman, speaking rapfu- atteildcd in tbe dismal vaoki tbe 

rously of the two lovely Misses coflhi Was opened With n»cb acM 

B ^, concluded h| declaiming that lemnity, and the faithful matmo 

iUcy were morelhan lartgnag^ stooped dowli> and kissed tke ekqr* 
could express 5 *' th^n,** replictl his cold li|)s of ber adored huibaod.*^ 
friend, *' I suppose they mt a pair Having relttctantly parted from the 
of ihexpressihlesr beloved oorpsOi she (petit the 9e« 
asebider of the 4m^ ^ nileoc an« 

A True Story of a Ghost, and gwish. On Ike soceeedi^ moto* 

Conjugal Fidelity.^Mr. Samud ing, Fisher (who intended to sail 

Fisher, tbe inventor of the Golden idr England on t)M day), edled to 

SiuiiT, was acquainted with a wi- bid his atiiicted fHeMd adteo. Tke 

dow lady of excellent characreis maid servant tabl kim that tW hidy 

wbo resided in Cork. This lady had not yet arisen. •' Tell ber Otl. 

was inconsolable for tbe death of get np," said Fieber. " 1 Witb lo 

her bnsHaml ; tbe day was spent by give ber a few %^rds of «o«9olfftia« 

her in sighs and incessant lameuta- and advice bcftire my departure." 

tions, and her pillow at night was " Ah \ Sh-,** said tbe jmiKng girl, 

moistened with the tears of her •' it would be a pity to disturb th% 

sorrow. Her hii-!tband, her deaf new^married «owple so ettrly in tba 

husband, was the contimflil theme ^oftitttgi"— ♦* What mm-mmrrM 

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couple?"— ~" My mistress. Sir, was 
married last night.'* — " Married ! 
Impossible ! What ! the lady who 
so adored her dece|is«d husband, 
who was visited nightly by his 
ghost, and who yesterday so fer- 
vently kissed his corpse? — surely 
youjest !"-.*'Oh! Sir," said the 
maid, *' my late mascer, poor man, 
on his death bed, made my mistress 
promise, that she would never 
marry any man after his deeease, 
till be and she should meet again, 
(which the good man, no doui)t, 
thought would never happen till 
they uiet in Heaven) ; and you 
know, my dear Sir, you kindly 
introduced them to each other, 
face to face, yesterday. — My mis- 
tress, Sir, sends you her com))li- 
ments and thanks, together with 
this bride cake, to distril)ute a- 
mong your young friends.** 

EPITAPH 

Oft the late Mrs, Haucjock^ of the Anchor 
PubliC'hoHSgf Mi^ertoriy Somerset^ loho 
wm in the conskutt kcAit of making her 
Mutbandva^Jw tvery Glatt of Beer be 
drank in his oun house. 

ALAS! poor Hancock's wilu is gone, 
She weatner'd long life*s restless btorm ; 
Her Anchor she has left.bdow. 
As vdlaa aUher treasure too; 
And now enjoy Ms glass he may, 
Without being forced for it to ^ay. 



Theairical i^»cei?<rte.«— After the 
performance of the tragedy of 
George Bamwell, on Saturday, the 
26tb instant, at Dmry-lane The- 
atre, Mr. Holland antK>unce<t the 
play in the foUawing words : — 
'^ Ladies aiKi Gentlemeu, To- 
morrow will be performed the 
Comedy of Man and ^^e,*' pro- 
bably having forgotten, from the 
day before being Christn«as Day, 
that the to-monoyo was Sunday. — 
This mistake was pointed out by 
"some person in the pit, but Mr. 
Holland, without discovering his 

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error, bowed and retired. A simi- 
lar blunder occurred, some years 
ago, at Covent Garden Theatre^ 
when tlie late txcellent Coinediau 
Woodward, in giving out a nevr 
€U»fiiecly, performed for the fint 
time OQ a Saturday, stepping be- 
fore the carta u), said« ^ LadiM 
and Gentlemen, to-morrow e¥»ti* 
iug, with your penuissioo, this 
comedy will be repeated.'*—" To- 
morrow /** exclaimed d gehtlemaa 
in the stag^-box ; '* Yes, Sir," re* 
plied the facetious Harry, ** Tv- 
monow evening a Sbjmqv will be 
preached at St. Paul's, Covent 
Garden, and on Mondajf next* tbif 
Comedy will he repented hue !** 

Iv (he Court of King's Bencb 
lately, a witness named PatUuoe 
was called, but not appearing, thr 
Court waited for near a quarter of 
an hour, during which time he was 
repeatedly called, but not answer* 
ing, Mr. Justice Le Blanc observ* 
ed, "Mr. Solicitor, enough has been 
done to prove that Patierkci is in 
Court — let htm be called once 
mc)re, and if he does not answer, 
let* his sin 1)e on bis own head." — 
He was accordingly called again, 
and not' appearing, the plaintiff 
was nonsuited. 



An EngHshman having once 
ftsked an Irish main, "If the roads 
in Ireland wert good ?"— " Yes," 
said he, '^ so fine that I wonder 
' you do not import some of them 
into England. Stay, let me sec-^ 
there's the road to Love, strewed 
with roses — ^to Matrimony, rbrough 
nettles— to Honour, through tho 
camp-^to Prison, through the la^v 
—-and to the Utdertaker'f, through 
physic." — " Have yau any road to 
preferment ?'" said the Englishman. 
"Yes, but that is the dirtiest in 
the kingdom/' 

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Ti/TR. Ellerker*s stallioD, W'mdle^ tavian) who is backed against any 
' ^ stone, the sire of some of the other for the next St. Leger Stakes: 
first Hud ters and Hacks in Eng- — His Grace has also a colt, by 
land, died last Spring, in the Stud, Stripling, out of " The Twinkler's 
pt Hart^ near Hartlepool^ Dur- dam," by Skielton, rising one year 
ham. old, who is allowed for strength 

■ and racing action to be equal, if 

' Mr. Scarisbrick has purchased not superior, to any one of his age 
<>f Mr. Trotter his brown colt, in the kingdom. — Stripling is con- 
Chagrin, by Sancho^ dam by Obe- sidered byexperienced breeders to be 
ron,'out of The Enchanter's dam ; one of the best bred horses in Eug- 
•7— bis bay colt, Tcenia, by Brain- land.— iSce List of Stallions, page 
worm, dam by Pegasus, out of 123. 
fiancho*s dam, rising two years old ; ■ ■ 

~and his well-known bay hunter, Newmarket Coursing Meet- 
jEnchanter, i^q — jn consequence of the frost, 

- this meeting had only one day's 

We are informed, that Sir Ri- sport : it was then adjourned till 

chard Brooke's famous mare, Du- the 14tb instant, when the frost 

chess, by Shuttle, is dead; and again prevented it, and the wea- 

Mr. Scarisbrick's bay colt, (two ther haffc been so unfavourable ever 

years old) by Windlestone, dam by since, that sporting has been in 

Ruler, out of Charmer's dam, is every country, perfectly impracti- 

jilso dead. cable. — (The first day's sport is 

■ given in page 105 of the present 

Newmarket Craven Meeting, dumber J 

1813.— Sir J. Shelley's Phantom, . 

Sst. 9lb. agst the Duke of Rut- Lord Francis Osborne is said to 
land's Grimalkin, Sst. 2lb. Across have given directions for the im- 
the Flat, 500gs. h. ft. — And our mediate enclosure of Gog Magog 
Correspondent states, that Agnes .HiUs, so long, celebrated in tbe 
Sorrel and Viscount, both by Stam- sporting annals of the turf, 
ford, are matched for a lOOOgs. in __ 

the next York Spring Meetini'. - „,,. ,e- t y \ k«e 

^ ^ ^ A noted Whip (Sir J. L.) has 

-"—^-^ recently taken what are called 

The Stallion Stripling, (sire of summer lodgings orci the water, at 

the Duke of Leeds's famous racer tio great distance from the Kind's 

' Octavian, a winner of the St. Leger Bench ; and report adds, that he is 

and several other Stakes) is sold to so deep (in- love with them) as to 

William Jolliff, Esq. of York. — afford little or no hope of his ever 

Tbe Duke of Leeds has a very pro- returning to his former *^ scenes 

jBusing colt, (own Brother to Oc- of gay resort.' His fjjieuds sav 

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that he lias retired from the fa- tiooed Club^ and to be rode by gen* 
:ikioTtable World I tkmen. 



. Mabshal Soult, at the present 
momsnt^ rides an English blood 
horse as bis charger, of which he 
became possessed in the following 
n)anQer: — On the retreat of the 
British army> and their re-embar- 
kation at Corunna, all tbe horses 
being ordered to be shot. Sir God- 
frey Webster's groom, rather than 
destroy his maister*s favourite 
cburger, stripped him of his furni- 
ture and clotbing, and, turning 
him loose, he ran immediately into 
the French lines, and being shewn 
to Soult, he adopted bira imme* 
diafely for his own charger. This 
horse was no other than the noted 
borse Pedestrian, that won so 
many plates and matches at New- 
market: 



The celebrated borse Cleveland, 
the property of Colonel Williams^ 
died in Worcester on Saturday, the 
dth instant, witbont any previous 
aymptoms of disorder. He was 
universally admired for bis symme- 
try and action, and was worth a 
considerable sum of money. 

A FINE horse, belonging to Mr. 
Jupp, of Goring, Sussex^ for which 
the owner was lately offered one 
hundred guineas, bad its neck so 
severely lacerated by tbe tusks of 
a boar, one day this month, that its 
death was the consequence of the 
savage attacks of that ferocious 
animal. 



DsBBT Ho NT. — Tuesday, De« 
ceml)er 1, 1812. — Steeple Race.-^ 
Match for lOOgs. — ^Four miles. 
Mr. Brearey's ch. h. Joe Miller, 
6 yrs old, allowing 7lb. (roda 

by tbe owner) .1 

Mr.' Wbittin's bl. m. Black Dia- 
mond« aged, (rode by Captain 

Sitwell's groom) 2 

This race was run over a very 
heavy country, in fourteen minntes 
and ^hirty seconds^ and was woo 
only by two lengths — ^Forty-thre* 
leaps were taken by the winner* > 

The Essex Fox Hounds had 
very good sport at the Dunmow 
Meeting this month. Tbe six days 
they hunted, they had sport each 
day, and killed five foxes. Tues-- 
day, the 1st, and Thursday, the 3d, 
were very superior runs; and oa 
Saturday, tbe 5th, on their return 
home, they had a very severe day*8^ 
sport, having run nearly forty 
miles, but changed foxes seyeral 
times. .i 



A PUKSB of 501. will he given by 
tbe Meml)er8 of the. Foley Hunt 
Club, at tbe next Worcester races, 
to be run for by horses which have 
been regulaily bunted the preceding 
season^ being tbe property of mem- 
bers belonging to the aboye-men^ 



On Saturday, the 28th ult. a fine 
stag was turned out upon Nazing 
Common, Essex, before Mr. Tyl- 
ney Loog Wellesley's stag hounds, 
and a numerous field of Essex 
sportsmen. Tbe morning was 
hazy, and a very heavy fogcame^ 
over, and it seems every man was 
determined to lay close to the 
hounds. Tbe bounds were laid 
on, and went off with a good scent 
over Broadway Common, across 
the inclosures, for Parndon Woods, 
then entered the strong cover, and 
every sportsman made his point 
round the cover with a view of 
cheating the hounds, but to their 
surprise, when they came up to the 
tof'^ not a hound jvas to be seen or 

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beard : the fleer bnvitig made a five miie^, finding henelf mnelt 

sbort bead, bung down theeowtr, pressed , ran into the town of Ar-^ 

and broke at the bottom. Tbe luagh, to the astonishment of the 

been s]>ortMnen then made speed inhabitants, and through most of 

dovrn wind, and with great difll- tbe principal streets, with tbe 

culty eattgbt a bearing. The stag, hoimds in full cry, attended by se-* 

leading bis eonrse over ]*anidon vera I gentlemen of the btinC, the 

neir inclosures, faced the strong huntsman, and whipper-in. Shr 

country for Great Parndon : the was rnn so hard, that she took're- 

bonnds parstting with a good scent, fbge in a woollen-dra])er*s shop m 

fell into a eh ace, and a most er- the centre of the town, where sbe 

yand bnrst tooli pi«»ce, which has was taken alire. 
not been witnessed shice the time 



•fMelllsh. Tbe stag leading from The beginning of the fflDDtb« 

Ch^at Pan>don by Mr. Smith's a sportsman wIhi had stiot a snipe 

|Hirk, over tbe inelosiires, for Lat- in Pevensey Marsh, Sussex, on 

ton Priory, a way to Col. Burgoyne's, stopping to pick np the bird, found, 

through Mark Halt woods, crossed to bis aj^ret>Hh)e surprise, that he 

Ibe London-roa<l, close to Harlow, had also killed a hare in her seat^ 

away to Bangeley's, skirted that which, unluckily for poor puss, waa 

cover, faced the Romling country, exactly within the range of hia 

leavmg Matcbing-fHirk to the left ; shot; 
be next bent to the r?gbt, leaving ■ ■ 

High Layer to tbe left, skirted A sxngvlar ctrcunistance oc- 

Haale-wood Common, leaving curred lately, near Fatmoutb. A 

Harlow'park close in tbe left, gentleman shot at and brought 

eressed tbe London-road near the down a woodcock, wbleb ap|»eare4 

Whalebone, away over Harlow to be killed r-^-^re put tbe bird i» 

Bush Fkir Common, vrhere the bis |K>cket, and shortly after ov 

field was drawn out to a very few, taking it out to she# to ft persMt 

among whom were one or two Sur- whom he met, it ttiddenly took 

fey Gentlemen, who rode hold and wing, and, though fired «f, escaped, 

sportsmanlike. The scent then not 1 1 was nearly an honr from the tioK 

serving so well, tbe bonnds came it vras shot mitil it got off", 
to steady hunting, and ptn*sued- ■■ 

him tbrfMigh Mark Bushes, over On Thursilay, the lOtb instant. 

Rye-bill Common, away over the Thomas Addison, of Parton, near 

cmintry for Nertswell, and to Can- Wigton, killed a brace of wtHwf- 

nons, over the Meads, crossed tbe cocks at one shot. This is bie 

River Lee into Hertfordshire, second acfaievemint of the ktnd ; 

through Eastwirk, away to Gil- and we m'ver befbre heard of any 

stons, crossed Mr. Plnmer's park to perspn shooting a brace, as these 

tbe right, where the hounds ruu binfs always Gj fn difi'urent direc- 

into him, and took him in soil, tlons. 
after a chase of two hours and fifty — — — 

minutes. ' ' Ok Saturday, the 5tb instant^ 

was shot by Mr. Bi^gs,ofMonkton- 

The Armagh Club liounds sta It- Coombe, SotnersH, between the 

ed a bare on Saturday, the 5th in- Diindns fMjueduct and Claverton, 

itant, which, after a run of aiN>ut in tbe river Avon,^ m #og-«otter i 

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he metsored four feet in length, 
and weighed twenty-five pounds. 
His tail was eighteen inches long, 
end its thickest part was three 
inches if] circumference. 



Mr. Thomas Hardy, son of Mr. 
Joseph Hardy, ot* the West Fen, 
in the neighboiiibood of liostoh, 
net with a serions accident on 
Monday, the 23d uh. whilst en- 
g;aged in shooting wihi fowl 3 his 
gtin, which was very heavily charg- 
ed, hiXYSK, iiy which nearly the 
whole of his left hand was Idown 
off, and he received a seveie con- 
tusion in the hice by the barrel. 

C^H Christmas-day in the morn- 
ing, a mad t\og was pursued from 
Hi ngtner, Sussex, to Laughton, 
and there shot in a hovel, by Mr. 
5amuel Pain, after he had bitten 
various otht*r dogs, particularly a 
hound puppy in the yard of Mr. 
Hill, two belonging to Mr. Scrase*s 
shepherd, one in the kitchen of 
Broyle Place House, and three at 
Laughton, two pointers and a- fa- 
voirrite lurcher. The rabid ani- 
mal was a large pointer, with 
some letnon-colour spots sellout 
him. He had a leathern collar 
rouiul his oeck, mounted with a 
piece of brass, hut no name on it. 



Mr. Holsey, of Hereford, for a 
considetable wager, undertook to 
ride his hoise from Worcester 
bridge to Hereford market-place in 
two hours. Notwithstanding the 
unfavourable state of the weather, 
and badness of the road, be com- 
pleted his task in sixteen minutes 
less than the time allowed, without 
in the least distressing the horse. 
The distance was twenty-eight 
miles. 



Iisr the Court of King's Bench 
this month, Mr. Price, formerly of 
Southover, and lately 'occupier of 
the Montpelier (hardens, Wal- 
worth, obtained a conditional ver- 
dict of 301. against the Treasurer 
of a cricketing clui), the same be- 
ing arreers due to the plaintiff for 
fheuse of his ground, and for din- 
ners, with which at different times 
he had fuVnishcd the members of 
tbeciub. 



Oir Momlay, the 7th instant. 



* A SMALL mare, with both her 
knees broke, and spavined, the pro- 
perty of G. Rho<les, was engaged 
to l)e drove by himself in harness, 
eighty miles im twelve hoiirs, for 
one hundred guineas; this took 
place on Thursday, the 24th ult. on 
Sunhury Common. She perform- 
ed it in seven minutes less than the 
time specified. 

A «ALLoWAY belonging to Mr. 
Pilch, a victualler, was backed oii 
Tuesday, the ] st instant, for a con- 
siderable stake, to gallop five mrlesi 
in fourteen minutes on the Wood- 
ford road, Essex. Heavy sums 
were pending on the event, and 
time was two to one the favonrit^ 
whilst the animal was going the 
first mile, but the match was won 
cleverly in seventeen seconds with- 
in the given time. 

A TROTTiKG match against time 
took place on the Newmarket road, 
near Ipswich, the beginning of this 
month, by a poney thirteen hands 
high, belonging to Mr. Cnsp, of 
Sa piston, which was engaged to 
trot two miles in seven minutes, for 
bets of about lOl. and it is believed, 
would have performed the same 
within the given time, but the nu- 
merous horsemen who accompanied 
it, by cracking their whips, he: 
fprrced the animal into s gallop/ 

which 



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ivbicb oblfged it to turn back ; in tbe objection wbich some persoiol 

coiisequeuce tbe beU were ivitb- feel to horse matches iii geaeraL 

Urawn. Wainfleet races commenced ob Sa- 

turday, tbe 7th inst. and were to 

Pedestiianism. — A foot race continue till Christmas, Tbe fol- 

of two miles, which excited much lowing is the list of tbe first week's 

interest in the sporting vvorid, took b)>ort ;— -For one guinea, Mr. 

place on Saturday, the 26ch De« liaithhy, 100 yards, against Mn 

j:ember, agreeable to appointment, Kime, 5Q yards, carrying Mr. Je&r 

on the Lea Bridge road, near Lou- sop weighing 15 stone: Raitbby 

.ilon, for a considerable snm, be-> winner. For fifteen shillings-^ 

twixt the celebrated runner Abra- Mr. Harpbam, lOQ yards against 

ham Wood, and Carter, tbe pugi- Mr. Young, 50 yards, carrying Mr. 

list, tie had run against time on Jessop : Young winner. Tbe races 

Sunbury Common last Spring, were well attended* 

when be performed two miles in A sporting foot-race took place 

some seconds over eleven minutes, on Monday, the 23d ult. on tbe 

without training, which is amongst Bagsbot road, betwixt George3ar- 

the first performances on pedtstriau tholomew, a Shropshire man, and 

record. Abraham Wood was ce» John Wilmot, a professed runner. 

leUrated as being light of heel, and The men were backed for 100 gui^ 

«L match was recently made, to give neas aside, to run against eacb 

Carter a hundred yards in two other for forty minutes. Tbe pe< 

miles, but his friends paid forfeit, destrians went off at tbe rate of 

and got on the present ma^h, ten miles an hour, and did four 

wbich was for Carter to receive miles abreast of each other iu 

oue hundred and fifty yards, Tbe twenty-three minutes thirty-six se^ 

matcli was made oti' hand, and conds. Wilmot was evidently beat 

neither weie in condition. Greg- after nmning thirty minutes, and 

son. was umpire to Carter, and his antagonist progressively gained 

Captain Hinton, to Wood. They on him and run strong in, leaving 

started at two o'clock. Carter hav- his antagonist 300 yards in tbe 

ing taken 150 yards in advance, rear. The winner did .six miles 

At the end of the mile Wood had and three quarters in the time. 

gained about 00 yards upon his ad- A curious race took place on 

vei*sary, and in the next half mile Christmas-day, on tbe Whitechapel 

he made more progress, and when road, between two butchers-— tbe 

within a (piarter of a mile of the one from Wbitecha))el, and tbe 

coming-in place, he was within 20 other from Leadenhall market. 

vards ; but Carter bad recovered Tbe LeadenhaU man undertook ta 

second wind, and he run the last run blindfolded, with an empty bar« 

tjuarter of a mile with speed at the row, from Whitechapel church to 

rate of a mile in five minutes, and the turnpikci a distance of a mile, 

won by about six yards. Betting against the Whitechapel man, wbo 

was even at starting, but Carter was to have tbe use of his eyes, and 

for choice. to drive a loaded harrow. For- 

Wcekly pedestrian races have tune, who is represented as blind, 

been established at Wainfleet, in favoured on the present occasion 

Lincolnshire, wbich afford consi- the candidate for fame wbo most 

derable spoit^ and are free from resembled herself^ the blind racer 

! * arriving 



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aVriving at the end of the course gaol, William Duncan, a seaman 
by the time his antagonist had per- belonging to the Norge, for cut- 
formed half his distance. ting and stabbing with a knife 
On Tuesday, the 15tb instant, Andrew Bigley and Thomas Harris, 
at March, James Rhodes, artillery both of the Doris. A cjuarrelhav- 
luan, and James England, labour- ing taken place at the Globe Jnn, 
er to Mr.Ogray, undertook to run Plymouth, between Bigley and 
five miles for lOl. which was won Duncan, who is a man of colour, * 
by the latter with ease. The same they stripped to decidef it, as was 
<l8y the said James Rhodes under- supposed, in the English style of 
took to drive bis mule with a cart, boxing; but Duncan, instead of 
J^g^inst R. Andrews, riding his po- satisfying himself with his natural 
Dcy, 30 miles for 201. which was strength, concealed a pocket knife 
won by the former, the other giv- in one hand, with which he wound- 
ing up when he had performed ed his opponent (Bigley) in a most 
about half the distance. savage manner. Aftertwo or three 

rounds, Harris remarked that his 

Boxing. — A stubborrt pitched shipmate bled profusely ; and on 
battle, for 10 guineas a-side, was his taxing Duncan with unfair 
fought in a meadow at Chooseley, play, he received a stroke across 
Herts, on Monday, the 30th ult. hisarm, which divided the muscles, 
betwixt two robust navigators of Duncan then endeavoured to effect 
the names of Fordham and Jona- his escape, but he was speedily 
than, the latter of whom died from overtaken. It is not a little re- 
Ihe eff^ects of severe hitting, in a markable, that though Bigley re- 
few hours after the battle, although ceivetl a transverse incision twelve 
he won it. It was maintained with inches long in the back, ajiofher 
the most ferocious courage one two inches long in the left side, 
liou^ and fifty minutes, until not a another oblique incision five inches 
feature could be discovered in either long in the body, and another made 
face. The combatants were fif- with the body of the blade on the 
teen stone men, without science. left arm, which extended about 
Monday, the 23d ult. upwards three inches, and penetrated to the 
of 400 persons assembled in a field, bone, he was unconscious at the 
near Prestbury, Gloucestershire, to time of being bounded. Bigley 
witness a boxing, or rather mauling and Harris arc recovering'fast. 

match, between two chairmen of 

Cheltenham, named Berry and On Tuesday, the 24th ult. Mr. 
Stone. The combatants set to Randal Lovell, of Spratton, North- 
about nine o'clock, and after amus- amptonshire, was convicted in the 
iog themselves and the spectators penalty of five pounds, for shooting 
for nearly an hour. Berry was ac- a bare without being qualified, and 
knowledged the conqueror. Lit- for not paying the penalty, was 
tie science was displayed on either committed to the House of Cor- 
side, and aftev forty-three rounds, rection for three months. 
every effort to draw blood proved __ 
fruitless. John Price, of Bishop^s Cattle^ 

' Shropshire, was convicted on Mon* 

On Wednesday, the 9th of this day, the 30th ult before the Rev. 

Iiiontb^ yfBs committed to Exeter Charles Peters, clerk, of laying 

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snares and otber engines for the de- from Leitb to a den prepared for 

structioa of hares, on the lands of its reception in the College grounds, 

Tbos. Harries, Esq. at Criickton. Edinburgh. It has Ijeen presented 

The Magistrate ^iitd Price five by the Professor of Natural His- 

])ognd$, which he being unable to tory to the Museum, and the Ma- 

pay> was committed to the House gistrates of Edinburgh, as patrons 

of Correction for three calendar of the University, having deter- 

months, as directed by law. mined that it should l)e kept alive 

■ till it attains its full growth, Tery 

John Bailey was convicted this liberally gave directions for the 

month before the Rev. J. B. Ches- construction of the den, in which 

ton, in the penalty of lOl. ami sen- it is now securely lodged. In a 

fenced to three months' imprison- year it will be fully eight feet lou^ 

jnent in Little Dean House of Cor- 

rection, Gloucestershire, in default A Fkench Paper says, " A 

of payment, for poaching in the wolf of prodigious siie lately 

hamlet of L/iuton, on a Sunday. crossed a part of the Commune of 

Dardily, near the great road lead- 

A KOYAL tiger, on the 27th Dec. ing from Lyons to Roao 'y in bis 

last, made its appeai:ance in the course he fir:>t attacked a child of 

iielda of Wagra, near Bombay, seven years of age, and tore it in a 

Information having been given to dreadful manner; and afterwards 

the Judge at Berab, an Adawlut an unfortunate woman, the mother 

guard of ten persons, armed with of a family, tearing away one of 

]nus((Uets and swords, were sent to her arms and a part of her face ; 

discover and kill the animal. This when he reached the village of 

service they bravely perlbrmed j Clair, in the commune of Dardily^ 

but having in their advance uj>on be met a labouring man who had 

the ferocious animal been taken been a soldier, and was at work ii^ 

partly by surprise, by his springing bis field with one of his nephews^ 

and alighting in the midst of them, and immediately attacked Imib; bat 

they were reduced to the necessity the old warrior with great presence 

of attacking hiui with their swords, of mind, seized the enraged aniaial 

when four of them were so torn by the i!ars, and threw him dowo, 

and bitten that they died a few and while he kept him close to the 

days after. ground, the nephew killed htm 

■ with some implement of agricul- 

Greenland Bear. — On Saturday, ture/' — ^Tbe wolf did not let go Lis 

the 21st ult. a young bear, brought hold while a particle oi life rc- 

from Greenland, was conveyed mained.** 

TO CORaESPONDENTa 

ArotOGT.^— At an Apology to the Writer of the life of Dick Et^laod^ is our laft 



Medley's had a different object. _ 

profe^ 
sion."— i'a. 00, Une ZZtjor " up in," read •* upon."— X/a. ;xr. line 30, to the fourth 
word, add " the."— iJo.jw. line 47^ to ** never, add ** aftcrwardi."— iv'iart timty recuL 

*' altjiough.'* 

rOETRY. 



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POETRY. 



THE HIGH COURT OF DIANA. 



THB 

SPpRTSMilN'S i AMENT OVER HIS 
DEAD POINTER. 

Br J. M. L. 

■PAREWELL, poor Ponto ! o'er 

*- tby lifeless form. 

Fast h\\ my tears, as for a friend most 
true! 
Companion both of sunshine and of 
storm, 
I feel I've lost that friend, in losing 
you I 

l^nd of thy sport, obedient to conv 
mand. 
Nor thirst nor hunger ever made thee 
fiiint ; 
Firm as a rock, when pointing, thott 
would'st stand. 
Till the gun's sound releas'd thee from 
constraint. 

Tme to thy master, and as fond as true> 
Not e'en correction oould that fondness 
move; 
No cruel whip oould e'er destroy in you. 
The man-instructing force of canine 
love. 

If e'er in passion's heat my hasty arm 
Has wrong'd thee, gen'rous dog ! thit 
trickling tear. 
Proclaims how truly I repent the harm. 
And frills to bleia and oonsecrate tby 
bier i 

Monaichs are prait'd in death, and 
pQmpous lays 
Peal to a wond'ring world their death- 
less fiimc; 
Bat, ah! no real maaatng BUt the 
praise, 
VouJn.L— No. 34B. 



No real monming marks the loyAl 



Mine, gentle dog, thus given to truth attd 

thee. 
Flow genuine from the heart, and Bow 

to prove 
That man can mourn, though in a brute 

The loss of friendship, fiiithf^mcss, 

and love I 
Dec. 4, 1813. 



TO HENRY BX7NBURY, ESa 

From the late David Garriek, Etq, icpon 
recewimg tvnu Oame bjf the Bury 
Coach, ^ 

QLD snailers, at the present times, 
Whetbei they write in prose or 
rhymes. 

Swear we have lost, by innovation. 

The secial spirit of the nation ; 

That Christmas ivy-crown'dof yore. 

Is merry Christmas now no more ; ' 

And, by the Moses and Apollo, . 

Plum-porridge gone, mince-pies will fol- 
low. 

Few presents now to friends are sent. 
Few hours in merry making spent | 
Old-frtthioiied folks there are indeed. 
Whose hogs and pigs at Christmas bleed; 
Whose honest hearts no modes refine. 
They lend their puddings and thds 

chine. 
No Nmfolktmkiii load the waggon. 
Which oaoe the horses scarce could dn^ 

on; 
And to increase the vreightwith these. 
Cane their atte&dant sausages. 

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142 THE SPIRTING MAGAZINE. 

Can you, dear sir, a man of taste. For we've got but one poet, and he's but 

Revi?e old whimsies gone and past ? & ?oot one : 

And (fie, for shame I) without reproach, 'Tis tiuc there's one more, and of humooF 

Stuff as you do the Bury coach ? noi crusty, 

With strange old kindness, send me pre- But his pen, by disuse, is grown rotten 

sents «nd rusty ; 

Of partridges and dainty pheasants; Yet was he, 'tis most certam, and you 

Nor is this all — not long ago, know it, 

(The world your vulgar deeds shall What is so seldom seen, a r«a/;)oef. 

know) H^aiUed iiiso, an actor that's fit for all 

Vou sent a picture of your own, work, 

Laughed at indeed as soon as shown, A hero— a tailor— a Mounsccr — m 

Which, by the gout as bound 1 lay, Turk ; 

Was brought before me cveiy day, Who can drawl out broad Scotch, muc- 

Of groans the tyrant to beguile. ^Ic wecl to a wonder. 

And on the rack to make rac smile. Or give the true twang to a fine Irish 

Jn short, of this same generous turn, blunder $ 

To clear your heart, your bead must Who can act all the right, and rehearse 

learn ; aJ' the morning. 

And, if all men of taste and fashion. And rant a new part out at half a day's 

Explode this present-making passion, whining : 

What, Bunbury, will he said of you. And because many plays are quite lost to 

Who feast my eyes and/)a/ate too ? our sugc, 

]>. G. ^^ here a lady should rove in the diess of 

jidelpki^ October 5, 1774. a page. 

Wanted also, a lass, who in charms pretty 
— rich is. 

But has no great objection to wearing the 
BELLMAN'S VERSES BY WAY OF breeches ; 

PROLOGUE. ^^^ ^^ — ^ y^ husbands ! assist us to 

_^__ ' soften. 

You perhaps know some ladies that wear 

WRITXaW BY THE LATE HENBY BUN^ *' 'cm lOO oftcn. 

BURY, BS2. fronted likewise, a pretty young lad for a 

"■"■; lover, 

Spokm by Mr, Nares, before Henry IF. Who can sigh like a 2cphyr,his pangs to 

at the Wynstay Theatre, many years discover; 

^nce, in the life-time of the laU Sir Who can kneel, like a camel, fo fawm 

'fVatkm fViLUams Wynne, and to flatter ; 

— — About my size perhaps, only smarter and 

Q Yez ! O yez / by particular desire, fotter ; 

I am come forth to speak, as a.bell- To be given in exchange, just to breed 

man or cryer ; up a son with 

For som^ things httz are wanting, and A pretty good parson, who then will be 

others are lost, done with. 

Which,' unless wft can get all, our hopes Lost of late, by an actor, some looks and 

will be cross'd ; some starts. 

We have some too to sell, if the shop be And half of the words out of all of his 

not undone, parts. 

By selling our wares much more cheap To be had at this shop— as we'll shewyoa 

than in London : hereafter, 

.Wanted hnu h brisk poet of humour di- Some very good lots of immoderate 

verting, laughter. 

Who can keep all alive, till the rise -bf To Will Shakespeare consign'd, from 

the curtain ; Parna»s long ago, 

Or a mill, if so curious a thing can be Inquire in Eastchop, of Kit Metcalfe 

had, and Co, 

To grind some good verses, we've plenty And, if chance any sides of the present 

of .bad-— good party. 

Our master wo.u}d give any sum to sfecura Be strained, or i>e bursten, with laughter 

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br a habit of grinning too strongly con* 

tracted. 
By seeing fine humour most perfecdy 

apced. 
On Monday youll come here again if 

you're wise. 
To be cwir4 of your grinning, and cry 

out your eyes. 
Farewell, ray good oHSten, and don't be 

caught napping, 
'Tis past seven o'clock, and a fine night 

for dafiping. 



Music has charms for many an ear. 
And though it makes us l^ght an4 
airy, 

ReaSly, there's not a sons; I hear. 
Yields such delight as lovely MartI 

Might 1 but pjiss with her my life. 
All other blessings 1 could spaie ye ; 

Reader, she's neither luaid nor wife. 
Yet good as fair is my dear M a « v 1 

T. R. D. L. 



ON HOBBY-HORSES- 



IflGS. 



Extempore by Mr. Garrickf at Barton, 
July 5th, \n 6. 



THE OLD PAINTER'S SOLILOQUY, 

UPON SEEING MR. bunbcry's j>raw- J)RYDEN observcs, and hc was wondV- 

ous wise. 
Men are but children of a lari^er sizel 
And honest Shandy, that odd winning 

droll. 
On hobbies, thro' life's journey makes us 

stroll. 
While some on wilful headstrong tits so 

light 
Are often thrown, and left in woeful 

plight ; 
For bobbies are oft times hard-mouth *d 

and stubborn, 
And difficult almost, as wives to govern. 
The great man's favourite hobby is Ji 

place. 
But his hobby oft falls lame and leaves 

the chase. 



gHALL I so long, old Hayman said and 
swoie. 
Of painting till the barren soil. 
While this young Bonbury, not twonty- 
fdur. 
Gets fame, for which in vain I toil ? 

Yet he's so whimsical, perverse, and idle, 
Tho' Phcebus self should bid him suy ; 

He'll quit the magic pencil tor the bridle^ 
And gallop fame and life away. 



With Reynolds matchless grace, and Ho- The soldier's hobby in these times of 
garth's power, 
r Again he swore a dreadful oath) , 
This boy had rather trot ten miles an 
hour, 
And risk his neck, than paint like 
both. 



wars. 

Is battles, breaches, ambuscades, and 
scars ; 

In peace how different then their trade 
is, 

In peace the soldier's hobby is the la- 
dies! 

The ladies ! aye the ladies, now and 
then, 

Can get astride their hobbies like the 
men ; 

Then, lord bless us ! none can stand be- 
fore *em. 

Churches and five-bar gates, skip, rhey 
fly o'er *em. 
. * And what's more strange, in every age 

\|ONEY makes the mare to go, ^"^ clime. 

And many a bitter pang can spare They'll ride you several hobbies at a 

time; 
Their lovers, and their husbands too, by 

fits 
They'll transform into manageable tits: 



Fix but his mercury, he'll join the two. 
And be my boast, Britannia cry'd. 

Nature before him plac'd her comic crew, 
Forturte placed beauty by his side. 



LOVELY MARY. 



ye; 
Riches are clever things we know ; 
Yet all the wealth I ask is Mauy ! 



Many place all their bliss in wine. 

Ale, brandy, gin, (for tastes will vary) ; 

Riim, shrub, and Hollands may be fine, 
Yet Where's the cordial like my Mil Ay 1 



And then they jockey us with so much 

ease. 
We amble, trot, and gallop, just as they 

please. 

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Clicntt arc lawyers* bobbies^ but the Upon the moss-grown baink, with daisies 



curse IS, 



dight. 



Tijat law-jockiea always gallop hard for Indulging tairy visions, I've reclin'd. 

purses; *., »^ - , • tj 

Onward they drive, and never do they Not then to itnaginary grief consign d, 

gjpp Gbeeidwas my morn with opniiig 

•TiH the poor founder'd clients breathless ^ ^ • prospects bright, 

^fQp^ Ah me ! the sad reverse I'm doom a ta 

The statesman's hobby is famed for spor- , J'"^V . ^..^w-i«;«» 

tive tricks Sunk beneath misery s oerwhelmmg 

And fidlers ride upon their fiddle-sticks. might. 

The sailor's hobby is the triumphant g^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^.,j ^^.^ ^-^ ,^ 

' turn 

A heart to conquer, humanity to save : ^. jj ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ ^^ ^^^^ ^ , 

Sailors Jove singing, but not such notes, ' nuir A».Trki7D 

As squeak bad English in Italian throats ; PHILANDER. 

•< Give me," says he, ** asong that 1 can " 

sing, 

« Here's Rule Britannia, and God save AN IMPROMPTU TRANSLATION 



the Kin^." 



THE SEPARATION. 



(^EASE, cease my soul, the woe-fraught 
sigh. 

Be still my throbbing heart ; 
From the dear maid tho' destiny. 

Dooms me, alas ! to part. 

Yet shall remembrance cheer the hour. 
While absence holds her sway ; 

And tho' Fate's murky clouds may low'r, 
Hope points to brighter day : 

A nd pictures scenes of fu tu re 5oy , 

When, all our sorrows o'er, 
"Where pleasure reigns without alloy,! 

We'll meet, to part no more ! 

PHILANDER. 



^: 



OF AN ODE OF ANACREON. 

For a Lady, from recoUectioH of the 
OnginaL 

Q'ER the fields once as Cuhd was 
tripping. 
On a cowslip he happen'd to stand, 
Wheie a wild bee the honey was sippin|(» 
Which flew up and stung the boy'r 
hand. 

He scream'd— and to Venus went ^jingp 
With a pitiful tale on his tongue ; 

" Mamma!— Oh! I'm ruinM— I'm 
dying— 
By a fierce little basilisk stung !"-*- 

She replied—** If a sting in the.^er, 
From an tVufc/, can cause such m 
smart. 
In what tortures, my boy, must Hicy 
linger, 
Whom thy a i rows have stung in the 
heart /" 

H. F, L. 



SONNET. 



j^ENEjATH yon ruin'd tower, with ivy 

crown 'd, 
1 wander 'mid the solemn gloom of 

night. 
While daikriess reigns o'er all the scene 

around. 



ON SKATING. 



INDUCED by Winter's frost, th^ Skater 



tries 



The thin transparent surface it 8applit»t 
His timid course the hand of cautioa 

, guides, 

Save when the moon's pale beam. Mocks the gulph below, and lightly glides, 
with silvery light, Thus Pleasure's surface, tempting, smootb 

and bright. 
Gleams on the spot where erst, with fond A deep abyss cdnceals firoin human sight. 
Jclight, Oh, mortals ! glide but lightly— press not 

When mild tranquillity possess'd my much— . . ^ ^ . 

mind J Pleasure, like icq, admits but of a touch. 



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P'OL. XLU 



JANUARY, 1813. 



ATo. CCXLIK 



CONTENTS. 



Pedigree and Performances of Gohanna .... 145 
Some Particular* of the Life of Marshal 

Suwarrow 147 

Monkwearmouth Sod Meeting 149 

- Grey Diomed » 149 

Stallions to Cover in 1813 149 

Bettings for the Derby, Oaks, and Oatlands.. I5i 

thigiliam lii 

Newmarket Adjourned Coursing Meeting . l b$ 
Natural Histoiy of the Orkney islands ... .Mb 

Sii Montagu Burguyue*s Hariers 100 

Trial of an Action for Libel, Benjafield v. 

Wheble lOO 

Sporting Fracas 169 

The Revengeful Gamester 170 

TUe Stage-Coachmen and Pugilists i7i 

■Turf and other Blunderisms 173 

Desideratum in Racing Portraits 173 

Fox-hunting in Yorkshire 17.'* 

Account of a singular Dog 176 



On Lounging ' ^ 177 

TheStag.HuntatEpping 177 

Account of the new Tragedy, called ♦* Re- 
morse" 17» 

Account of the new Comedy, called ** The 

Students of Salamanca" 181 

FEAST OF WIT 184 

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE 18? 

POETRY. 

The Corsican Fox» a New Hunting Song .. .199 

Prologue to " The Students of Salamanca*'.. 19S 

Allen-a-Dale, by Walter Scott 194 

Female Friendship I94 

The Gypsey Gang 195 

The Vicarage Sequestered 19S 

A Song by Lord Thurlow ' ;iw 

Lines by W '. 196 

The Games of Greece 19C , 

RACING INTELLIGENCE EXTRA 4S 



I. A Portrait of Gou AH a A. 
II. The Stag-Hunt on Epping Forest, Mm *' Harlequin and the Bed Dwarf. 



^ 



PEDIGREE AND PERFORMANCES 

OF 

GOHANNA. 

tTith an Engraving by Mr. Scottyfrom a 
Painting by Mr, Davis. 



r^OHANNA, (a bay horse, foal- 
^^ edin 1 790), bred by the Earl 
of £grenioi)t, was own Brother 
to that well-known good Racer 
and Stallion, Precipitate — Got by 
Mercury; dam by King Herod; 
grandam, Mr. Pratt's Maiden, by 
Match*em« out of the famous Old 
Squirt Mare. — Maiden was the 
da'n of Challenger, &c. — She was 
also own Sister to Purity, the dam 
of Rockingham, &c. — Mercury 
was own Brother to' JFuptter» Vo- 



lunteer, Queen Mab, &c; by Eclipse, 
out of Mr. O Kelly*s famous Old 
Tartar Mare. 

At Newmarket Craven Meeting, 
1793, (Tuesday) Gohanna won « 
Sweepstakes of 20Qgs. each (four 
subscribers) 8st. R. M. beating 
Warwick, by Pot8o*8. — ^On- Mon- 
day, in the First Spring Meeting, 
he won the first Class of the Prince's 
Stakes of lOOgs. each, h. ft. (ten 
subscribers) Sst. 3lb. each« Across 
the Fiat, beating Scanderbeg, 
Agamemnon, and Truenuin : — ^2 
to 1 against Gohanna. On Wed- 
nesday, he won the second Class 
of the Prince's Stakes of 10(^s. 
each, h. ft. (ten subscribers) dst. 
alb. eacb^ Across the Flat, beatiag 
Xanthas, by Volunt^r :— ^ to 4 

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on XantKus. Ami 6n Satnnfay, he 
wl>n the third Class ot the PrinccV 
Stakes of lOOgs. each, h. ft. (ten 
SHhscribers) 8sr. 3lb. Across the 
Flat^ beating Druid and Topgal- 
lant : — 7 to 4 on Gohanna. On 
Monday, in the Houghton Meet- 
!ng« be won a S^reepstakes of 
lOOgs. each, p. p. (eighteen suh- 
tcribeis) colts, 8st. 7lh. fillies^ 8st. 
Across the Flat, beating Druid, 
Hydra, Katberine, Warwick, and 
Mother Redcap : — t) to 4 on po- 
banna. And on Friday, at 8st. be 
beat the Duke of Bedford's Caelia, 
78t..7lb. Across the Flat, 200gs. : 
•—2 to 1 on Gohanna. — On Mon- 
day^ in the Craven Meeting, be 
was beat for a Stakes, by Topgal- 
lant ; and at Epsom, he was second^ 
to Waxy for the Derby, which, 
with the. above,, were the only tiroes 
nf Gobanua*s racine at three years 

At Newmarket Craven Meeting, 
1 ?9*** Gohanna won a Sweepstakes 
of lOOgs. each, p, p. (twenty sub- 
scribers) 8st. 7lb. each, B. C. beat- 
ing Old Tatt, Druid, Topgallant, 
XaOthus, and three others: — Even 
t)etttug on Druid, and 9 to 2 against 
Gohanna. In the First Spring 
Jtfeetinjg, be won the Claret Stakes 
pf 200gs. eadi, h. ft. (Bve subscri- 
bers) 8st. 7lb. B.C. beating Teu- 
cer, by Utysses: — 3 to 1 on Go- 
hanna., And in th«; Second Spring 
Meeting, at 8»t. he beat Waxy, 
B^U 3lb. B. C. lOOgs. : 3 to 1 on 
.Waxy. At Lewes, he won a 
Sweepstakes of 200gs. each, p. p. 
(fix subscribers) 8st. 7lb. over the 
Course, beating Guatumozin, 
Aoyalist, and two others; — 3 to 1 
on .Gohanna. And walked over 
lor' a. Subscription of lOgs. each 
^our snbseribers). He also walked 
t»ver. iav tJhe King*s Purse at Can^ 
lerba»». . A^d in the Newniarket 
£irst October Metfing, at Sst. 4lb. 



he beat Lord Cfoitnont^t Heroine^ 
5 years old, Sst. Aeross the Flat^ 
200g&. :— 2 to 1 on Gohanna. 

At Newmarket Second Spring 
Meeting, 179^> Gohanna, 8$t. 7tf>- 
beat Darsham (same age), 6st. T^b. 
B. C. lOOgs.: — 13 to 8 on Dar- 
sham. At Lewes, he walked over for 
the Duke of Richmond's' Purse of 
501. At Lichfield, Sept. 8, he won 
the King's Purse of lOOgs. for five- 
year olds, 8st. 7lb. three-mile beats, 
beating Patriot and Doricles : — S 
to 4 on Gohanna, who won the 
first and third heats from Patriot. 
And at Warwick, Sept. 15, be wort 
the King*s Purse of lOOgs. for six- 
year olds, 12st. four-mile heats, 
beating Pandolpho, Joe Andrews^ 
&c. 

At Lewes, August 4, 179^ » Ge- 
hanna walked over for the King's 
Purse of lOOgs. for six-year-olds r 
—And the next day, he won 50L 
beating Kerenhappuck and Buck* 
nor. He also won the King*t 
Purse of lOOgs. at Warwick^ 
beating Diogenes. 

At Egham, 1797» Goharmm 
walked over for a Sweepstakes of 
15gs.each (three subscribers). 

At Lewes, 1798, Gohanna, Sst. 
7lb. won 50l. heats two miles and 
a half, beating Play-or-Pay, aged, 
8st. 71b. Totteridge, aged, Sst. 7lb. 
Pelter, 6yrs old, Sst. 2lb. Wrang- 
ler, 4 yrs old, 7lh, lllb. &c.— 
This was the only time of bis cao* 
ing that year. 

At Brighton, July 2, 1799, 
Gohanna, gst. won a Sweepstakes 
of 25g8. each, the last mile, beat- 
ing Trumpeter, 6 yrs old, Sst. Gib. 
Dapple, 5 yrs old, Sst 6Ib. Balli- 
namuck, 4 yrs old, 7^t, 8lb, &c.— 
At Lewes, August 1, at Sst. lOlb. 
he won 501. iieating Mother Ship- 
ton, 5 yrs old, 7st. I2n>. atid 
Whip, 5 yrs old, Sst. UK. — ^And 
tb« aext day, at Sst. Tib. be beat 

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Tmnipeter, 8st. th« kst inil<^ 
lOOgs. 

AihI tttliewes, 1800> Gahanna, 
Sst. 71b. won 501. heats two miles 
and a balf^ beating Caclet^ 5 yrs 
old, Qst. 4ib. and Duchess of 
JLinibsy 5 yrs old, Jst. 12lb. — J to 
;4 on Gohanna^ who was tbep seqt 
to the Stud at Fetworth^ Sussex, 
for a Stallion. 

Id IB06, he covered at 25g8. a 
jnare and one guinea the groom; 
«u 1807, &c. at 50gs. a mare and 
rtwo guineas the groom ^ in 181^ 
and 181^ at 20g8. and one guinea. 

Gohtmna was the Sire of the 
/ollovwing good runners^ viz. 
Anderida Jocasta 

Bantam Lamia 

Break Lewes 

Brightonia IVfirror 

Brighton Monntehan]^ 

Brigb ton-Lass Nobody 
•Canopus Nuqcio 

Cardinal Beau- Orelia 

fort Princess 

*Castane^ Prodigal 

Cerberus Quail 

Cestrian Quin 

.Coriolanuf Rabbit 

CprsicQQ Reading 

Cowdray Receiver 

.Crin^Cop ^ Ringdove 
Dandy Romana ^ 

Dorina Scorpion 

£dinund Sister to Cas* 

j&lectioa, tanea 

Tairy Skeddi^w 

Grace Sprite 

Hedley Stjngt^iil 

JEJomespim Trafalgar 

.J«rbo Turtle 

Jl»:pbo«iD Volucris 

{(Utexlop^r Wretcby &c. &c. 

And of the valuable St^Uiop 
,Qolumpu9, Sire of Otterington, 
the winner of the last St. L?ger ; 
.also of Catton, Beverley, Vncl^ 
Toby^ Kexhy, Miss Catto», &c.-— 
Gi^iiiapus never raced. 



%* Cardinal Beairfort .and 
Election were winners of' the Der- 
by Stakes, besides a ^reat fn^uf 
others. 



';f • ,*tf "intj l '.Mfc 



For the Sfiorting Magazine, 



SOME PARTICULARS 



or THE 



LIFE or THE CELEBRATED FIELP 
MARSHAL SUWARUPW. 

TN the year 1799, ♦be celebrafefi 
Suwarro^y, ^fter having, in l^^s 
than two months, reduced the 
whol^ of Italy, penetrated into 
Switzerland;; to unite his fprc^ 
with a body of troops un^erPrinqe 
£oi-s9kow,iB prpi^ecution of a plap 
arranged by the .Courts of V^eno^ 
and 3t. Petersburgb, for invading 
Frknce. Upon his arrival ^t tl^e 
frontiers, he h^d the mortif^^t^ofi 
to lea|7i th^t l^orsakow, gisfip* 
pointed of a reinforcement by Am- 
stfia, ha(l been unable to withstanfl 
the enemy, and had sustained a 
signal defeat n^ar Zurich. 

During the violence of Suwar* 
row*s chagrin e^t this event. Prince 
Korsakfw approached him. The 
old Geperal, startipg back at the 
sight of hixn, fixclaimed, indignani- 
iy, '* Yob are bold, indeed, tp 
))rave n)y repi'o^cbes, when you 
have just succeeded in staining a)y 
escutcheon with a blot, vhicli was 
unknown before you in^printed it 
-—away! do not disgrace me by 
your presejpce.*'-— The prince with- 
drew in coofusioQ-: evi^ one pre- 
i^ent, struck with the severity pf 
this a44re^^> remained silent ; 
when Suwarrovr^ recalling the lui- 
happy officer*^" Hear jpae^* said 
he, "J spoke to you this ropment, 
in the language of ^n irritated 
Commander^^l now address you 
.as a lather and a friend*-! know 

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all: tbey, through whose remiss- 
ness the encQiy triumphed, are 
\noTb culpable than you — ^your 
fault i$, that you can survive the 
dishonour that has attached to you, 
and of which your miserable family 
will partake. My advice is, to 
bury yourself in the remotest de- 
sart of Kussia, and try to escape 
your own recollections. — ^Fare- 
well !" 

Suwarrow was too much dis- 
.gusted with thecoriduct of Austria, 
to attempt more in her favour : he 
assembled his army in the neigh- 
bourhood of Lindau. 
' At this period, his assistance 
was requested by the Archduke 
'Charles, at a conference upon de- 
'fcnsive operations. Suwarrow re- 
ceived the officer charged with this 
commission, in presence of his 
'whole suite, and haughtily replied 
to the invitation . — " Tell the 
Archduke, that 1 have no talents 
for defence — ray science is the sci- 
ence of attack — I shall pursue my 
inarch when T deem it expedient, 
and then I shall waste no more 
time in Switzerland. I shall ad- 
vance, accorrling to my orders, into 
iFranche Comt6. Tell him, that 
at Vienmi I should he at his feet, 
but that here I am at least his 
equal : he is a Field Marshal — I 
am one — he is in the service of a 
great JSmpetor — I am also — he is 
young — I am old-^I have never 
yet been vanquished — I have pur- 
chased my experience' hy a course 
o{ victories — I look for counsel 
and advice only to God and my 
sword." 

The Emperor Paul soon after- 
wards secerled from the coalition, 
and made peace with France. But 
Suwarrow incurred his displea- 
huve, from an idea that he had 
been too tardy in reporting the 
conduct of Austria. The noble- 



minded veteran, stimg at the re- 
fusal of the military honours whidi 
he thought his clue, worn dowr> by 
the effect of wounds and fatigue, 
and looking forward, with impa- 
tience, to a life of inactivity, iH 
suited to his disposition, soon after 
his return to Russia, expired, 
nearly broken-hearted, and that 
sun, which had lately shone fortk 
so splendid, set in clouds and ob- 
scurity. 

Suwarrow was a man of most 
amiable and generous heart, and 
possessed great wiirmth of feeling. 
At the advanced age of seventy, be 
had the vivacity and energy of 
eighteen. 

His private habits were very re- 
markable : Sober to excess, and 
little inclined to any s/)rt of })er- 
sonal indulgence, he was admira- 
bly calculated for iearfing a sol- 
dier's life; His bed was a truss of 
hay; he dined at six, seven, or 
eigut in the morning, slept from 
ten to two, and then transacted 
business till the period #hicb be 
dedicated to retirement and devo- 
tion. This duty engaged hira a- 
bout tvventy minutes. He then 
joined in conversation for half an 
hour or an hour, and tlien again 
went to bis repose. At midnigbt 
he left bis couch, transacted busi- 
ness till four in the morning, at- 
tended mass, and occupied bim- 
self with military duties till dinner 
time. 

It was his custom to address tbe 
troops every Saturday evening, »t 
considerable length. His dis- 
course turned principally upon tbc 
respect and love due to God, and 
^to the Sovereign; u|)on tempe- 
rance, attention to their profejsion, 
and the advantages which soldicn, 
inured to fatigue and haitisbip, 
must possess Over alTbthers. 

Whatever ei^t was prodiwed 

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liy these haraogiies, there is un- 
4lonhtedty no cUss of men who re- 
-<|airc fewer tromforts than the 
Russian army: .An individual will 
-subsist for forty-eight hours on a 
pound of bread, a quarter of a 
pound of oatmeal, or millet (with- 
out any flesh meat), drinking wa- 
ter, with a small allowance of 
.brandy. 

Their ideas of religion tend also 
greatly to increase the courage and 
exertion of the Russian soldiery: 
to die in battle, is in their eyes 
certain happiness ; to run away 
from an enemy> is a crime and a 
.<lisgrace scarcely known amongst 
them. 

The appearance of the Russian 
troops is very superb, of the in- 
fantry in particular 5 the cavalry 
are a fine body of men^ but indiffe- 
rently mounted. 

Their manceuvres are almost en- 
'tirely confined to the charge, 
which they execute with over- 
bearing vigour and impetuosity. 

At the present moment we can- 
not but look up with peculiar re- 
tpect to those hardy natives of the 
North, who have not only repelled 
rhe.'invaders of their country, but 
by their energy and resolution 
liave given a shock to the throne of 
.Bonaparte, from which nothing 
,but a total change in the system of 
Russia, and the grossest miscon- 
duct bn the part of her allies, can 
enable it to recover. — Let us hope 
that £nrope will at last burst asun- 
der the disgraceful trammels which 
have galled her so long 3 and that 
France, the .once happy, high- 
spirited France, blushing to have 
caused such extensive calamity, 
•and having atoned, by tears of 
blood, seeing her absurdities and 
crimes, will arise from her abject 
position, and tear down a dynasty, 
srhich was the offspring of violence 



and murder, and whose vmturity 
has been worthy of its birth. 



MONKWEARMOUTH SOD 
MEETING. 



To the Editor of the Sporting Man 
gazine, 

SIB, 

,nnH£ fourth grand Annual Sod 
Meeting, will take place at 
Monk wear month, on the 15th of 
March, and following days, for 
four fifties, three one hundreds, 
and a two hundred.-7-Tbe insertion 
of this will greatly oblige a con- 
stant reader, SoD. 
Durham, Jan. 81, 1813. 

GREY DIOMED. 

To the Editor of the Sporting Ma^ 

gazine. 

SIR, 

TF you have it in your power, I 
should be much obliged to yoii 
to inform me of the pedigree, per- 
formances, &c. of Grey Diomed.— > 
Ry inserting it in your next Num* 
her, you will very much oblige. Sir, 
your constant reader, 

T. L. B. 



ALPHABETICAL LIST OF STAL- 
LIONS TO COVER IN 1813. 



The Figures before each Horse's Name, 
denote his Age at May Day, 1813. 



^Continued from page 12S»J 



a. TJETTER,' in Northumheiv 
•" land, at 4g8.— ByKing Fer- 
gus ; dam by Sweetbriar, out of 
Rarity, by Match'em. 
. Q, Cardinal York, at Cat- 
terick, Yorkshire, at 7g«. and 58.— r- 

Br 



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By Sir Peter Teazle ) dam, Cbann- 
er, by Fbeaomenon, FiCzherod, 
yonng Cade, Regulus. 

11. Qejiumkus, at Bisbop-Bur- 
ton, near Beverley, Yorksbire, at 
5gs. and a half.—By Gobanna; 
dam by Herod, out of Desdemona, 
^yMartk. 

] 1 , Cborus, at Womersly, near 
PoDtefract, Yorksbire, at 5gt. and 
a half.—- Own Brother to Tuneful, 
by Tnuupator; dam, Sea-Fowl, 
by Woodpecker, out of Middlesex, 
by Snap. 

5. CoTTAGEB, at MonkmaQ*6 
Repository, York, at 5g8. and 5s. 
•*-By Hambietonian ; dam, (Laii- 
goid*s dam) by Dragon, out oi 
Scourge's dam, by Herod. 

.2UHAMBt£TONIAN, at Wyn- 

yard, near Stockton- upon-Tees and 
I>arlingtiMi, at 26gs.***By King 
Fergus, out of Grey Higbflyer, by 
Highflyer, Match*em,&c. 

13. L*ORiBNT,at Hinckley, near 
Leicester, at 5gs. — By Star, out of 
Abigail, (Zodiac's dam) by Wood- 
feeker. 

94. Famdolpho, at Hornby- 
Castle, near Richmond, Yorkshire, 
JiC 5g$, and 5s.«— *By Pretender, 
out of a Sister to Gnawpost, by 
Snap, Godolphin Arabian, &c. 

/• Faux., at Dringhouses, near 
York, at 5gs. and a half. — By 
Hambietonian; dam> Caroline, by 
Phenomenon -, grandam, Faitb, 
by Pacolet, out of Atalanta, by 
Matnb'era. 

8. RuasNs^ at Bill-Hill, near 
Wqrkingbam, Berks, at 2lgs. — 
Ow^i Brother to Selini and Cas- 
ti-el, by BuzzartI $ dam by Alex- 
ander, HighByer, Alfred, Engineer^ 
out of Bay Matron's dam, by Cade. 
6axs CosoufiG, at Sleap 
House, near Wem, Shropshire; — 
at 5gs. and 56. — By Boudrow ; 
dam by Le Sang, Careless, out of 
Miss Barfortb, by 8nap. 



2a Shuttlb, at tbdsaaie'pl^d^ 
and price as HambktooiaB.— *Bf 
Young Marsk ; dam by VauKbali- 
Snap, out of Hip, by Herod. 

12. SiK David, at the Saluta- 
tion, Doncaster, at lOgs. and m 
balf.-*-By Trumpator ; dam hf 
Woodpecker, out of a Sister to 
Driver, &c. by Treotliam. 

13. Sir Oliver, at Altrincbaia, 
Cheshire, at lOfs. and one guinea. 
•^By Sir Peter Teazle; dam, 
Fanny, by Dion>ed, Woodpecker, 
out of Ruth, by Blank, 

7. Sir Petronbx., at Down- 
Hall, Epsom, Surrey, at IQgs. and 
a half. — By Sir Peter Teazle ; dam. 
Young Rachel, by Volunteer, out 
of Rachel, by Highflyer. 

6. Slbdmbrs, at Norton-C<ni- 
yers, near Ripon, Yorksliite, aK 
5gs. and 5s.— -By Ddpini ; dam hy 
Gabriel, out of Sir Laiwceiot's 
dam, by King Fergus. 

26. Stride, at Deighion, near 
York, at 5g8. and a half. — ^By 
Phenomenon ; dam by Goldfindet, 
out of Lovely, by Babraro. 

7* Thunderbolt, at Great Bar^ 
ton, near Bury St. Edmunds, ai 
15gs. and a balf.^^By Sqroerer; 
dam. Wo vsky, by Mentor, out of 
Maria, the dam of Waxy, &c« 

lO. Trafalgar, at Leconfieid 
Parks, near Beverley, Yorkebire, 
at 5gs. and a croiirn.-^Own Bn>- 
tber to Scorpion, by Gobanna, out 
of a Sister to Skysweaper, by High- 
flyer. 

5. Vandyke Junioa, at Cakb- 
cot, near Biggleswade, Bedford- 
shire, the first five mares at lOga. 
and a half, all the rest at 50g$. 
and one guinea .-^By Walton i 
dam, Dabcfaick, (Vandyke*s dam) 
by Pot8o*s, out of Drab, by High- 
flyer. 

14. Vivaldi's Brothbr, at 
Melton Moivbray, Leicestershire, 
at 5g8. and a crown.— By Wood- 
pecker^ 



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BETTINGS. 



flecker; d«n by Mercury, ottt of 12. Zotnac, at Utt Neale's, 
Cythcrea, by Herod. Newmarket, forty mares, (besides 

14. Walton, at GSppiog-Hall, four Of his otrner) at l^.-'-^-^* 
near Stowmarket, Saffolk, forty By St. George : Ham, Abi^il^ 
mares, (beside^ those of bis o^fner, (L'Orienfs darti) by Woodpeck^r^ 
not exceeding ten) at 26g%. — By out of Firetaif, by BcUpse, BlAUk; 
Sir Peter Teaile; dam by Dim^. &c. 
ganoon. Prophet, out of Virago, 

(Saltrain's dam) by Siiap. 

10. Warrior, atMr. Knaptoti's 

Farm, Hinitington, near York, 

at 6gs. and a cro\rn. — By Sir Pe- 
ter Teazle ; dam by Young Mar^k, 

Matcb*em, &c. 

23. Waxy, at Newmarket, 
twenty mares at 26gi. — - — By 
Pot8o*s, out of Maria, by Herod, 
Snap, ^c. 

10. WniffeLocK, at the Ble* 
pbant and Castle Inn, Skeldergate, 
Yoik, at5g8. — By Hambletonian j 
dam, Rosalind, by Phenomenon, 
oat uf Atalanta, the dam of Faith, 
iBcc. 

8. Whitworth, at Kirk-Mer- 
rington, Durham, at lOgs. and a 
bait. — By Agonistes j dam by Ju- 
piter, Highflyer, Match'etn, Old 

England, &c. 

1 3 . Wh YNOT, at Osprihge, near 

Faversham, at 3gs. and a crown.— 

By Wahiut, out of Baron and Viah 

count*s dam, by Bourdeaux. 

13. WitLiAMS0M*s Ditto, at 

Snitterfield, near Stratfonl-oil- 

Avon, at lOgs. and a half. — Own 

Brother to Walton. 

7. Wizard, at Bhnsall-Lodge, 

near Ferrybridge, Yorkshire, fifty 

niare'^, (besides those of his owner) 

at lOgs. and a half. — By Sorcerer; 

dam by Precipitate, out of Lady 

Harriet, by Marc Antony, Match- 

'em. 

19. Young Woodpecker, at 

Jervaux-Ahbey, near Middleham, 

Yorkshire, At 5g5.— By Wood- 
pecker 5. dam by Bdipse, out of 

Rosebiid, by Snap; Miss Belsea, 

byR^ulus. 



gTATE Of the bettings at Tatt«r^ 
salFs, Jan. 27. 

DERBY. 

12 to 1 agst Sir SoltfuMtf. 

13 to 1 agsC the Brother f# 
Thunderbolt. 

14 to 1 agst Ldrd Qv^^ew^4 
colt. 

15 to 1 agst Lord Foley's cJolt. 
15 to 1 agst Sir John Sbell«*y*Si 
15 to 1 agst Lord £gremont*4 

Nerissa colt. 



9 to 
10 to 



FIRST 

6 to 
6 to 
6 to 
6 to 
9 to 
10 to 



1 
1 



OAKS. 

agst Vale Roytfl. 
agst any other faorae^ 



CLASS OF THE OATJLANHC^ 

1 agst Sorcery. 
1 agst Pope Joan. 
1 agst Mulberry. 
1 agst Venture. 
1 agst Langton. 
1 agst Merryfield. 

SECOND CLASS. 



9 to 2 agst Grimalkin^ 
1 agst WoefuL 
1 agst Crispia, 



5 
8 



to 
to 



5 to 



THIRD CLASS. 

1 agst Mr. Wyndham's c 



by Gohanna. 
6 to 1 agst Mr. Craven's Tooley 

500 to 10 agst naming the ^rte 
winaen. 

PUGI. 



IS2 TH£ SPORTING MAGAZINE. 

PUGILISM. on Monday, the 4tb, at DanAry, 
— near Bristol. — The combatants 
A Very unfortunate event oc- were Crab, one of the press-gang, 
curred on Monday evening, the and Newton, a brick-maker: the 
4th instant, ar Cambridge : — Mr. stake was dOgs. each. Bristol 
tVilliapi Stocker, grocer, in Sid- being considere<l a nursery for 
ney-street, went into a room at the heroes of the fist, great interest 
Hoop Inn, when a dispute arose was excited, and a large company 
between him and William Flack, attended, it being known that 
oT the same place, which occasion* both' were bottom-men. Newton 
cd a challenge to fight, and the par- is a lOst. and Crab a 1 1st. man. 
ties immediately adjourned to the At setting-to betting was even, 
earden ; wl^eu, after fighting a but from the first round it changed 
snore time, Stocker fell down, ap- 6 to 4 on Newton; and after a 
partntly much hurt, in consequence hard contest of fifty minutes, in 
of which he was conveyed to a which Crab shewed considerable 
room, and surgical assistance im- pluck, victory decided in favour of- 
piediately procured j but the un- Newton. — Another battle was 
fortunate man- expired in about fought for a purse between Hall 
three hours, a melancholy instance and Roberts, which afforded am- 
of the fatal eifects of intempe- pie satisfaction to the amateurs, it 
rance.-^The Coroner'js Jury re- being one of the sharpest and 
turned a verdict of Manslaughter, hardest contests that have been 
Flack is committed to the town witnessed for some time. Hall 
gaol for trial at the ensuing as- was 2 to 1 the favourite at setting- 
sizes, to, the third round even betting, 

A Correspondent informs us, when after fifteen minutes hard 

that at Norfh Walsham, Norfolk, fighting without a shift. Hall 

the New Year was ushered in, in planted a most tremendous blow 

a very singular manner — first by a on his antagonist's neok, who fel)» 

race, and afterwards by a boxing and was taken off the ground 

match.^-Io the former, a noted senseless, 

runner of that place undertook to Ford, one of the tried champions 

rnn fifty yards, with a loyal man from the West of England School, 

npon his l^ck, weighing l6st. and Cro(>ley, the formidable oppo- 

against a person, who was to run ser of Dutch Sam and Belcher, will 

one hundred yards } but the latter fight for lOOgs. in a month, 

only got to the end of his fifty sparring. 

yards by the time the other had ar- The Fives Court was fully at- 

rived with his load. After this, tended on Monday, the 11th in- 

the person who had lost the race, scant, for the benefit of Carter 

and at least a cubit by his exer- and Fuller, the brave losers at 

tions, offered to fight the other . Kickmansworth. Amongst the 

with one arm tied up, and in the company were several distinguisb- 

end he beat tlie Time- keeper ; so ed personages. The principal at- 

that he that had been swiftest in tractions at sparring were betwixt 

the race, proved second best in the Power and Carter, Richmond and 

pugilistic combat. A wrestling Fuller, Dutch Sam and Cropley, 

-match must decide the wager. Carter and Fuller, Maltby, Ford^ 

A pugilistic di8[)2ay took placa G. Cribb, &c. 

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NEWMARKET 

ADJOURNED COURoING MEET- 

ING. 



Tuesday, Jan. 5. 

CHIFFENHAM FIELD. 

1. jVT R. Rerlbead*3 blk. b. a. Love- 
^^^ ly, beat Sir P. Blake's br. 
b. a. EvH. 

2. Mr. Redhead's blk. b. a. 
Ltgbtiiiiip^, beat Sir P. Blake's blk. 
d. a. Enrerald. 

3. Capt. VVyatt's bl. b. a. X Jane, 
beat Mr. Wright's bl. b. Vesta. 

4. Ld Rivers's cream-coloured 
d. p. Rex, beat Mr. Wright's bl. b. 
p. Vigo. 

5. Ld RiVers's w. d. p. Riverton, 
beat JMr. Wright's bl. b. p. Virgin. 

6. JWr. Rerlbead's blk. and w. b. 
a. Lively, aj^st Mr. Wright's blk. d. 
a. Vol ens. — Undecided. 

7- Capt^ain WynU's blk. and w. 
p. X Janus^ agst Mr» James's bl. d. 
a. Indigo. — Undecided. 

8. Mr.' J. Wright's bl. b. p. 
Stella, beat Mr. Redhead's blk. b. p. 
lieveret. 

g. Captain Wyatt's bl. d. p. X 
Jethro, beat Mr. James's w. b. p. 
Ithaca. 

10. Mr. Wilkinson's red d. a. 
Zeno^a'gst Mr. Goodlake's bl. d. a. 
Gamecock. — Undecided, Zeno won 
the first turn. 

11. Mr. Jones's r. b. p. Jewel> 
beat Sir P. Blake's blk. and w. b. p. 
Bnibassy. 

1 2. Sir P. Blake's blk. and w. d. 
a.Enlerprize, agst Mr. J. Wright's 
bl. d. a. Sampson. — No course. 

13. Mr. J. Wright's d. b. a. Slut, 
beat Sir P. Blake's w. b a. Eve. 

14. Mr. Wright's bl. d. a. Va- 
liant, agst Mr. Redhead's blk. b. a. 
Lydia. — No course, two hares. 

'\5. Captain Wyatt's bl. d. a. X 
Junius, agst Mr. Wilkinson's blk. 
b. a. Zelia.— Off. 

V6i. XLl.— No. 244. 



16. Mr. Jones's blk. b. a Jet, 
heat Admiral Wilson's (Sir Albe- 
marle Bertie) blk. b. a. Yarico. 

17. Mr. Syer's blk. b. a. Pickle^ 
beat Mr. R. Hamond's (Mr. Bliss) 
blk. b. a. School Lass. 

18. Captain Wyatt's bl. and wt. 
d. a. X Juniper, beat Admiral Wil- 
son's (Sir A. Bertie) blk. and wt. d. 
a. Crib. 

19. Admiral Wilson's (Sir A. 
Bertie) blk. b. a. Cora, agst-Mr. 
Wilkinson's r. b. a. Zariua. — Un- 
decided. 

20. Mr. J. Wright's bl. b. p. Skip, 
beat Mr. Wright'sblk.b. p. Venus, 

21. Mr. Wright's bllt. d. a. Vo- 
lens, beat Mr. J. Wright's bl. d. a, 
Sampson. 

Wednesday, Jah, 6. 

STETCHWOHTU AND DULLINGBABt 
JPIELDS. 

1. Mr. Wright's blk. b. p. Vir- 
gin, beat Lord Rivers's blk. d. p. 
Royal. 

2. Mr. Redhead's Lively, beat 
Mr. Wright's Volens. 

3. Mr.Merest'sblk.b. p. Opium, 
rec. ft. from Mr. Northey's yellovr 
and w. b. p. Nimble. 

4. Mr. Wright's Valiant, beat 
Mr. Redhead's Lydia. 

5. Mr. Merest's blk. b. p. Oyster 
Wench, beat Mr. Wright's Vigo. 

6. Mr. Merest's blk. b. p. Otter, 
beat Mr. J. Wright's Stella. 

7. Captain Wyatt's bl. d. a. X 
Jasper, roc. ft. from Mr. Page** 
blk. d. a. Blue Beard. 

8. Mr. Merest's blk. b. p. Octa- 
via, beat Capt. Wyatt's blk. d. a. 
X Johnny, jnn. 

9. Sir P. Blake's w. b. p. Er- 
mine, beat Lord Rivers's blk. d. p. 
Romana. 

10. Lord Rivers's blk. d. p. Re- 
peater, beat Sir P. Blake's blk. b. 
p. Endor. 

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11. Sir P. Blake's dun d. p. Ex- 
press, beat Lord Rivers*s hlk. d. p. 
Ilegeut. 

J 2. Lord Rivers's blk. and w. b. 
p. Risk, beat Mr. J. Wrigbfs blk. 
b. p. Skip. 

13. Mr. Syer's blk. b. a. Pickle, 
beat Mr. Wi*ight's (Lord May- 
nard's) b!k. b. a. V. Fly. 

14. Mr. Wilkinson's r. b. p. 
Zatia, agst Mr. Tysscn's (Mr. Bliss) 
w, b. p. T Fly.— Undecided. 

1^. Mr. Page's blk. b. a. Bess, 
1>eat Mr. Wright's (Lord May- 
uard's) blk. b. a. V. Zingar. 

16. Mr. Wright's (Lord May- 
nard's) blk. and w. b. a. V. Actress^ 
¥eat Mr. Page's blk. b. a. Bessy. 

Thursday, Jan, 7* 

WESTLEY FIELD. 

Mr. Wright's greyhound, rec. ft. 
from Mr. Upcher's greyhound. 

1. Mr. Redhead's Lovely, beat 
Capt. Wyatt's X Jane. 

2. Captain Wyatt'a X Juniper, 
beat Mr. Redhead's Lightning. 

3. Captain Wyatt's X Jasper, 
agst Mr. Wright's Valiant. — Un- 
decided. 

4. Mr. Page's blk. b. p. Beauty, 
beat Mr. Wright's r. and w. b. p. 
Vermin. 

5. Mr. Wright's Venus, agst 
Mr. Tyssen's Trifle. — Undecided. 

6. Mr. Goodlake's Gamecock, 
beat Mr. Tyssen's Telemacbus. 

« 7. Captain Wyatt's X Johnny, 
beat Mr. J. Wright's Sampson. 

8. Captain Wyatt's X Janus, rec. 
ft. from Mr. J. Kemp's bl, and w. 

* d. p. Friday. 

9. Ml'. Page's Blue Beard, agst 
Mr.Tyssen;s (Bliss's) bl. d. T Nes- 
tor. — Undecided. 

10. Lord RiVets's Repulse, agfet 
Admiral Wilson's (Sir A. Bertie's) 

* U Cora. No course, tvro hares. 

11. Mr. Page's yelr b. a. Blos- 



som, agst Mr. Tyssen's (Bliss's) T 
School Lass. Undecided. 

12. Mr. Wilkinson's Zarina, best 
Admiral Wilson's (Sir A. Bertie's) 
U Yarico. 

13. Mr. Page's cream-colotircd 
d. p. Boxer, agst Mr. Tyssen'^ 
(Bliss's) blk. d. p. Neptune. — Un- 
decided. 

14. Captain Wyatt's X JuniufK, 
beat Admiral Wilson's (Sir A. Ber* 
tie's) U Cril). 

15. Mr. Wright's Vigo, beat Mr. 
Tyssen's (Bliss's) T Fly. 

16. Mr. Jones's Jet, beat Mr^ 
Tyssen's (Bliss's) blk. and w. d. T 
School Boy. 

17. Mr. Tyssen's Telemacbus^ 
beat Mr. Goodlake's Gamecock. 

18. Lord Rivers's Remus, agst 
Mr. Nortbey's Nimble.— Unde- 
cided. 

Friday, Jan. S. 

SECOND CHSTELBT FIELD. 

Mr. Redhead's two p. rec. fc. 
from Mr. Upcher's two p. 

1 . Lord Rivers's blk. and w, h. p. 
Ringdove, beat Mr. Wrigbt's Ve- 
nus. 

2. Mr. Jones's Jewel, beat Sir P. 
Blake's Endor. 

3. Lord Rivers's blk. b. p. Re- 
becca^ beat Mr. Redhead's Le- 
veret. 

4. Lord Rivers's Regent, beat 
Sir P. Blake's Express. 

5. Mr. Dover's Dart, beat Capt» 
Wyatt's X Johnny. 

6. Mr. Wright's Valiant, beat 
Lord Rivers's Racket. / 

7. Sir P. Blake's Eve, beat Mr. 
• J. Wrighf's Skip, 

8. Sir P. Blake's Embassy, agst 
Mr. Jones's Jet. — Undecided. 

9. Captain W^yatt's X Justice, 
beat Mr. Syer's Principinm. 

10. Mr. Syer's Pickle, beat Capt. 
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11. Mr. Tysscn*! Telemaclius^ 
beat Lord Rivers*s Rinaldo. 

12. Mr. J. Wright* s Stella, heat 
Sir P. Blake*s Emerald. 

13. Mr. Wright^s Virgin, beat 
Lord River8*8 RoyaL « 

14. Mr. Wilkins6n*8 Zelia^ beat 
Sir P. Blake's Evil. ' ' 

15. Lord Riv^rs's w. b. p. Rat- 
ler, beat Mr. Redhead's blk. d. p. 
Lounger. 

\6, Mr. Redhead's Lydt^, beat 
Xiord River,s's fallow h. p. Rapp. 

J 7. Mr.. Redhead's Lively, beat 
Capt. Wyatt's X Jane. 

18. Captain Wyatt's X Janus, 
beat Mr. J. Kemp's Friday. 

19. Ml". Wilkinson's Zeno, beat 
Mr. MelUsh's (Lord Mayuard's) 
CE Actress. 

20. Captain Wyatt's X Jesse, 
agst Mr. Mellish's (Lord May- 
uard's) CE Fly.— Undecided. 

21. Mr. Wilkinson's Zarlna, 
beat Mr. Mellish's (Lord May- 
iiard's) CE^ Zingara. 

22. Mr. Tyssen's (Mr. Bliss's) 
T School La5S> beat Mr. Page's 
Boxer. 



9. Lord Ri versus Repulse, agst 
Mr. Northey's Nimble.— — No 
course. 

10. Lord Rivers's Rouse, agst 
Mr. Northey's Fly.— No course. 

11. Lord Rirers's Rachel^ agst 
Mr. Northey's Nip. — No course. 

12. Mr. Tyssen's (Mr. Bliss's) 
School Lass, beat Mr. Mellish^s 
CEklipus. 



NATURAL HISTORY OF THB 
ORKNEY ISLANDS. 



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Saturday, Jan. 9. 

SECOND CHZFPENHAM FIELD. 

1 . Lord Rivers's blk. p. b. Ruby, 
beat Mr. Micklethwait's d. p. 

2. Mr. Tyssen's Trifle, beat Mr. 
Page's Best. 

3. Mr. Syer's Principiura, beat 
Mr. James's Ithaca. 

4. Lord Rivers's Rye, agst Sir 
P. Blake's Eador.— Undecided. 

5. Sir P. Blake's Express, beat 
Mr. Page's Beauty. 

6. Mr. Dover's Dart, beat Mr. 
James's Indigo. 

7. Sir P. Blake's £ve, beat Mr. 
Pace's BessT 

8. Mr. Meilish's (Lord Milsen- 
town's) (E Jasper, agst Sir P. 
Blake's Embassy.— -Undecided. 



HE Natural History of Orkney 
and Shetland, has lately been 
given to the public in a volume^ 
entitled, *' Fauna Orcadensis ; or, 
the Natiiral History of the Qua* 
drupeds. Birds, Reptiles, and 
Fishes, of Orkney and Shetland. 
By the late Rev. George Low, Mi- 
nister of Birsa and Haray. From 
a manuscript in the possession of 
W. E. Leach, M. D. F.L.S. &c." 

The Volume is dedicated to Sir 
Joseph Banks, with whom, as well 
as the late Mr/ Pennant, the de-> 
ceased author of this work was in 
habits of intimacy. For the amuse- 
ment of our readers, and to enable 
them to form their own judgment 
of the style in which the Natural 
History is executed, we shall oc- 
casionally make a few extracts 
iato our Magazine, beginning 
with 

THE HOR8B. 

The Orkney breed of horses is 
but small, lieing that iisecf in the 
Highland shires of Scotland, such 
as Caithness, Sutherland, he. but, 
when properly taken care of, are 
neat, brisk, and hardy ; well adapt- 
ed to the nature of our uneven 
country 5 can bear much more 
fatigue than the large south- cmio- 
try bones brought hither 5 and, ta 

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scarce ever seen in tbe Orkneyj, 
and mules^I dare say, never.* 



a word, serv^ well every purpose 
of the farmer. Some tiiuei ago tl^e 
Orkney men had a vast prejudice 

ngainst keeping mares, and raised ^^^ ^^^ 

none of their own horses, which ^heke are several* varieties of 

Vereall imported, at a vast ex- ^1,^ dog kind to be found here, at 

pence, from the northern shires of i^ » . , . ,. i:j\^^„*.„„ 

J, ^i^..,i ,...^ ...:♦!.:-. *K.,o,. ^: else w Jjere, trauied tor d I tierent pur- 
poses, as the water and land spa- 



Scotland ', hut within these six or 
seven years, they seem pretty much 
to have got over this whim, and 
every man rears as he can afford, 
which will save yearly some thou- 
sand pounds to the country. The 
sUeUies mentioned hy Buchanan, 
and described by Sir Robert Sib- 
bald MS no larger than asses, and 
s|iid to be common both to Orkney 
and Zetland, are at present con- 
finied to the latter, where they still 
preserve their character of excel- 
lent work-beasts : they bring a 
^ry few of them to Orkney, but 
jpore are sent to other parts of the 
kingdom, being purchased as cu- 
riosities, and to teach children to 
ride, though their strength is such, 
that they can carry a man with ease 
for a lopg while together. The 
price of Orkney borsjes is high, 
considering the country 5 imleed, 
I am often surprised bow a farmer 
here can aftbnl 5, 6, 8, or JQl. 
sterling for a horse, and purchase 
the number many of them keep, 
eapecially when I r«flect on the lit- 
tle profit many of tbejn make of 
their farms, which, though greater 
in some parts of the country than 
others, is by far less than might be, 
had they proper marki^Lts to bring 
the produce of them to. Asses are 



niels for fowling, and curs for 
giving warning by barking ; but 
the most common aie the shep- 
herd's dog, and mongrels froni it, 
called in general coHys, or sheep- 
dogs. These are trained up to a 
sport, which, (says Mr. Wallace) 
is •* both strange and delectable," 
namely, hunting of sheep. Tbe 
master of the dog has him in bii 
arms, and points out the sheep, 
which he very nimbly seizes from 
all the fiock, and, without miicb 
hurt, detains it till released by bi» 
master. This custom had its in- 
conveniencies, and oft times it hap- 
pened, as it does still, that tbe dog 
which could seize a sheep for bi» 
master, could do the sameforbim- 
self. Tb |)revent this, in tbe coun- 
try acts, it was statute, * That 
nae man shall keep running dogis, 
that runs {rae house to house, or 
through the country, cheasingtlieir 
neighbours sheip 5" and this under 
tbe highest penalties. 

Foxes or wolves, I dai^ say, ne- 
ver had a footing in Orklriey. 



THE OTTiB|l. 

OxTEEs are found v^y frequent 
in these islands, burroi^ipg i^^l^b^ 



* In addition to the history of the horse, I shall insei*^ ^whati tnfi 
writer of the Husbandrie used by the Orchadians says of t,l^e,i»OiJi- 
ney : '^ Their horses lieves on bearecalfe, and grows exceeding f^t on 
the same 3 they he very little, but qukck.and Eerie." ;To lyl^chM''' 
M'Kaile adds, with truth, '* The horses are little, and go a^ l>^r^tvO^ 
unless the gentlemen put shoes ujion the hyrses upon ^;Uicihr t^iey rif'* 
theniselves." — P. V [ '.•>'.[.,. .;» ,/. 

lankil 



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banks of tbe sea, 9s well as those 
of tbe fresh -water lakes. I was 
lately informed of a pair who made 
a drain under a hou^e in Kirkwall 
their haunt. They live \ipon cod- 
fish, conger-eel, or other fish in the 
Siea,, and trout in the fresh waters 
are very delicate 5 eat only the best 
parts of the fish, leaving the rest to 
be picked up by the country peo- 
ple. They always shut their eyes 
%yhile eating ; are often then sur- 
prised and killed, A young gentle- 
man in the neighbourhood lately 
told me, he observed one on a sea 
i:ock at his meal, upon which be 
\i(alked straight up to him, and, 
vith a blow of a cudgel^ so stun- 
ned him, that he put a strong rope 
about bis neck, and led him home, 
jdlnother man, who ha4 wounded 
one with small shot, was not so 
lucky, fpr, on bis appealing to be 
lifeless, be threw him over bi^ 
sbouldei; to carry him bonje; her 
hja^ not^one far l^efore tbe anima^, 
recpvered, and, bcfo^^ he was. 
aware, bit kim mqst severely. In- 
deed, their bite is. always very bard. 
I wa^ informed of a struggle be- 
tween a wounded 01^, and a strong 
water-spaniel, in the water : upon, 
tl^^latter's seizing him to dragbin^ 
ashore, be fastened on the spaniers. 
leg, and in a luoment suapt the 
bone C9 pieces. 

Xbe otter*s skin' is an article of 
qur epf ports, and when killed in 
" winter is valuable 5 however, I am 
tpld.by inany they are much scarcer 
tban , formerly. Skins sell here 
fpr about six shillings a piece^ if in 
season.* 

I have' seen, those killed in the 
sea, as well as f^esh- water lakes, 
hut cai\ obissrve no difierence, not- 



withstanding Linnaeus Itells us tbej 
never are seen In the sea. 



TKE SEAL. 



S^ALS with ns aie very nume^•^ 
ous, especially in the desert isles, 
or sea rocks, that are separate^ 
from the land ; here they lie, wbii^ 
the sea is low, in droves, and la 
season bring forth their youngs 
Not having a specia;en before me, 
I »ball give that of my honoureci 
friend Mr. Pennant, as pubUsbed 
in his works, to which, and his 
correspondence upon any difficulty^ 
I have been often and much obliged^ 
and think myself happy in having 
it in my power to return bim> io 
this manner, my most grateful ac- 
knowledgments, for the countfcf 
nai^ce. he has all along shewn mo 
in tbe prosecution of this work^ 
anc} ever since I had tbe honom* to 
ha kno^Yu to him. 

*[ Tbe bead and t^ose broad and 
fl^t, like those o£ the . otter ; thft 
neck short and thick j the eyea 
Inrgq and black y tpngiije forked b.% 
the end ', nostrils oblong ; on each 
side tbe nose were several long stiff 
hairs, (these in tbe specimens I 
have seen are und.ulate<l) ; and 
above each eye were a few of tbe 
same kind; two canine teeth in 
each jaw ; six cutting teeth in the 
upper jaw, four in the lower ; na 
external ears -, body covered witjli 
hair ; short tail ; toes furnished 
with strong and sharp claws ; con 
lour various, dusky, sandrcoloured, 
hrinded, spotted with white or 
yellow ; the hair of the old ones 
is thick, short, and glossy ; that 
of the young, long, white, and 
woolly." 



• ^ In Shetland they are very .plentifid^ and valnable. They transport 
tbe U\v to Hamburgh, and sell thean from six to twelve shillings a piece. 

Th* 



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THE SPORTING MAGAZINE. 



The largest seal I ever saw in 
Orkney measured, from the point 
of the nose to the hinder claws, 
eight feet. 

The seal swims with vast rapi- 
dity, and before a gale of wind is 
iiitl of frolic, jumping and tum- 
bling about, sometimes wholly 
throwing itself above water, per- 
ibrming' many awkward gambols, 
•nd at last rttiring to its wontedf 
lock, or cavern, which it keeps 
possession of (if undisturbed by 
nian) from its own species. 1 have 
teen them often pushing one ano- 
ther down, and there continue 
t|ll the storm is over. Seals seem 
to have a great deal of curiosity : 
if people are passing in l>oats, they 
often come (]aite close up to the 
bout, and stare at tbem, tbllouring 
lor a long time together ; if people 
atre speaking loud, they seetti to 
wonder what may be the matter. 
The churph of Hoy, in Orkney, 
h situated near ft small sandy bay, 
much freiquented by these crea- 
tures;^ and I observed when the 
fell rang- for divine service, all the 
teals within bearing swam directly 
lor the shore, and kept looking 
ahovt them, as if surprised, rather 
than frighted ; and in this manner 
rontmued to wonder^ as long as the 
bell rung. 

Numbers of seals are yearly 
caught about our coasts, both with 
net* and shot, for the sake chiefly 

• 

of the skins and oil, though I am 
credibly informed^ in North Ro- 
Baldsba they take them for ano- 
ther purpose, namely, for eating ; 
»nd they say tbey make good ham. 
J have seen numbers of them cut 
ttp, and bave no doubt birt the 
young ones may eat tolerably well, 
but the large and old ones must be 
very ordinary feeding, because the 
flesh is both black and very coarst- 
gvained* 



There' is a ship commonly goes 
from this place once a year to Soils* 
kerry, and seldom returns without 
200 or 300 seals. She is manned 
with between thiity and forty men, 
who, as soon as they come up with 
the rock, land (except a few left to 
keep the ship, and receive what 
the others kill), and immediately 
surround what seals are then on it. 
One, party armed with clubs, fall 
to knocking them on the bead, 
and another set to jacking, i. e. cut* 
ting off the skin, together with the 
blubber on it, while the others put 
it on board. They continue Ihns 
as long as they have any thing to 
do, and, when all is over, imme* 
diately set sail, otherwise they are 
in danger from the weather y if it 
Mows up there is no such things 
as getting into their hosts. When 
they arrive the jacks are divided^ 
and sold by pnhlic auction, at about 
five or six shillings sterling a piece ; 
and each man makes about thirty 
shillings sterling for his share, 
after allowing a thii\l for the vessel, 
and something more than a com*' 
mon share for the master. After 
all is disposed d, the blubber is cut 
from the skin, and boiled into oil, 
which sells well, and with profit 
to the merchant The skins are 
pinned to the walls of houses till 
dry, and are then sold to the trunk* 
makers and others, for eightpence 
or one shilling a piece^ small and' 
great. 

The young and smaller seals 
yield the most oil $ the U^'gest are 
good for little, except the skin j in- 
deed, our seal-catchers seldom care 
for killing the old ones, where they 
can have the others. 

Our tanners dress the seal's skin 
both for shoes and breeches, but 
they do not answer very well for 
the former, being soft and spungy ? 
when properly managed, do well 

for 



THE SPORTING MAGAZINE. 159 

for breefebes. They are likewise seen ; but the former is the pre^ 

dressed with the hair on, for sad- vailing colour> with the belljT 

die-covers, and 1 have seen very lighter. Those that keep cod- 

foeautiful ones made into waist- stantly in the mountains are ia 

coats. winter hoary. At this season ths 

Seals seem to be subject to a fur is most valuable, and each skin 

plague, or murrain. Al)out four is sold here for fourpence or five-* 

years ago they drove ashore round pence, but when brought to a pro<« 

our coasts in scores ; likewise in per market will fetch sixpence* 

Caithness, many of them were ' The rabbit is veiy prolific, breed* 

found dead. They were observed many times a year, and, indeed, 

to cough much, make a sort of except in the dead of winter, we 

plaintive noise, and when they died seldom see them without young 

and dro^e asboi-e were much swel- ones. They are but tender, and 

led, and appeared as if very fat, but sometimes sink under our winters* ; 

when ciit up were nothing but skin a long snow either smothers or 

and bone. starves them in their holes ; but a 

The plar4!8 where seals abound season recruits them, and thej 

oaost in Orkney are, the Skerriea swarm as much as ever, 
of Hoy, North Ronaldsha, and When confined to their holes by 

others of the north bles ; the Bar- tlorm, live on the roots of grass, 

rel of Butter -, Pightland Skerries, which they dig through the sand 

and severalother holms of the soul h in search of j and sometimes forced 

division of the islands 5 but they Co the farmers* yards in qtiest of 

are to be found round all the flat- food ; and I have seen in this ri« 

ter coasts, and the caverns of the |;orous season, the leaves of the 

sea. ' ^ water-flag pared as far as the frost 

" ■ would allow by them, which at no 

other season they meddle with. 

THE RABBIT. l*hey are often forced down to the 

.' Many of the islands of Orkney sea to feed on the ware, which, 

swarm with rabbits. Their skins in very hard seasons, gives their 

make a considerable article m flesh a bad taste, and often kills 

trade 5 are very profitable to the them. 

pro])rietors of sandy grounds on The rabbit is a poor defenceless 
this account, and their flesh ; creature, and had not nature fur- 
though 1 am afraid, upon calcula- nished it with strong ■ muscular 
tion, it would be found the mis- limbs, and a vast inclination to 
chief they do, both in corn and burrowing, would be open to the 
grass grounds, by boring and attacks of every enemy; as it seems 
subjecting them to blowing, is not to have less swiftness or cunning 
counterbalanced by the profits of than the hare, and but little strength 
the warrens ; but it often happens to defend itself, even from the most 
that present advantage makes us inconsiderable of the beasts or birds 
overlook future inconvenience. — , of prey. Its ordinary enemies are 
The rabbits here are all of a brown* the eagles, hawks, ravens, and even 
ish grey; it sometimes happens, hooded-crows and owl?, amongtbe 
though seldom, a white one is birds; otters (as I am credibly in- 

^ * Which are none of the most serere, 

fonned}^' 



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formed), dogs, atid, to my kiiovr- 
ledgb, twyiie more mischievous a- 
Inoirg tiiem than the domestir cats; 
ftin unsuspected enemy amongst ari 
bnsilspectfng (of them at least) 
Jkeople : besides, the many inv^n- 
ttons of men, surb as snares, nets, 
l^ns, &c. &H pohited at the liFc of 
this poor animal, who passes its 
Bfe ill a conthiual uneasiness, and 
seldom enjoysp an undisturbed hour: 
Sir Robert Sibbald, p. 11. Scotl 
IHus. P. 11. gives «s a vfhite bare^ 
*• InOrcadibus (says he), fepefitu^ 
criTiibtis caiidorum nivalem refctisn-^ 
iMbus." Whether there was sucli 
Hii animal found here when 'Sir 
Hobert wrote, I know hot, but 
there is none such now, nof is there 
a hare of any kind to be fontid in 
the Orkneys.* ' 



SIR MOWTAOa BURGOYNrs ' 
HARIERS. 



H I * m 



To the EtHtm- cf the SpatHng Meh 

gatine. 

CHOULD ^ou eoftPMck^ tike fol- 
^ loi^iiig worthy i«»erttdn in yowt 
interesting publication^ it may 
proved tO' y^wf • readers, thift from 
care and attention to " rear,- feed, 
hunt, and diseiplfne the pack," the 
ixiosf pleasing and hsftpy <ionse^ 
quencesrwill result; ami I trust, 
totl^oce tlveiti, as it- has fue, that 
oifiyt^-iftfa tfnd 5t«tfdirtess oan make 
the bldod %.— I am, 8tf , ymir obd- 
4ient servant, 

J. Racb. 

Jon- J» i*i3- 



Sir Montagu Borgoyne's harrier*, 
(Bedfordahire) have lately had un^ 
"common success,' having fo\ir days 
in the last week, tuA fire brace and 
a half of hares, a brace of which, 
notwithstanding their 'stoutness, only 
have beat. One of them was found 
at Eyeworth, and . passing over 
Wrestlingworth Field, she ran a ring 
i-outifd Tadlow Grounds, and cross- 
ing the riyer into Cambridgeshire, 
ran through the parishes of Great 
and Little Morden, through Shingy 
Pastures, pointing for Wendy Spin** 
nies, where being headed, she re- 
turned into Little Morden Field, 
^nd bore to the left to Abington In- 
closures, where the hounds running 
from scent to view, ran into ana 
killed* her nedr the church ; Mr. 
Wells, who hunts the*m, hzrving dur- 
ing the whole chase, made but one 
•cast. They also killed in the last 
teaiori fifti/'three brace of hares, 
in a heavy country, abounding widi 
** grtasy fallows and frequenteti 
roads." - 



TRIAL OF AN ACTION FOK A 
UB£L, 

In the Court hf Xhtg's Btnch^ GioSdfo/l, 
before Lord £Uenbor6ugh, and a ^)ecial 



A 



Benjafield k Whebla. 

S this trial has reference in vt* 
rious parts of it to the name 
of Mr. Richard Tattersall, grandi- 
father of the present young men 
at Hyde-Pai'k -Corner, and of whom 
some Biographical sketches were 



* Torfaeu^ says (p. 136.) there were hares (lepores) in Orkney, and 
.that the bunting, of them was the amusement of the Counts ; but whe- 
ther we are to iHiderstaud by this term rabbits, I am uucertain, as he 
use^a word for deer in another place, (p. 140), which is now commonly 
pnt for the rein-deer, an aniuml probably never & native of Great Bri* 
toin, / 

^vc» 



THB SFOlrriNG MAGAZINE. 101 ' 

emn In former NnmberB of our Doraet. In the year 1788 he waui 

Miscellany^ written by the late Editor of the Momtng' Po«#f which 

Counsellor Phillips^ we conceive it he conducted at the time of the 

a tttbject not wholly destitute of in* then prospective Remicyy on ac« 

terest to the Sporting World.— count of that ilinesa mm which hit 

Mr. Phillips was a member of the Majesty happily recovered. He 

Jockey Club^ and for some time in soon parted with his shares in that 

the close confidence of Mr. Tatter- newspaper, howev^y to Mn Tatter- 

8all.-~-In our Number for January^ sail, and retired into the county of 

1795^ this ^"^ sabiectof the no* Sufiblk, of which he had been muiy 

gQciation between Weitjie and Ben- years a Magistrate. In a contip* 

jafield is freely and widiout reserve versy respecting the conttnitteeship 

spoken of. Onr wish at present is of a lunatic, into which it was aot 

not to enter into any controversy necessary^ior the Solicitor<3eneNit 

relative to the meriu of the case, to enter, ciix^stances occufmd 

l2pt merely to give the trial as taken which gave n^to the ftfhvmg 

in short hand, leaving our readers libel, for which w. d^^feoflaBt was 

to form their own judgment thereon, responable, as he had noCt given. tn» 

■ ■ its author ; but of which the ^ Soli»> 

NAMES OF THE JURY. citorXieueral did not rappose him 

Edw.Townsend,Iime^treet. ^^,^ *"^®7 ^« only Wished he- 
John Taylor, Wood-street, could discover that author. 
Geo. Stevenson, Bow-lane. « Captain Bcnjafield, JfiMTOerly' 

Wxn. Ko8e,Maiden.la«e. ♦ been charged by his brother Magts* 

J. M'Kenzte, BUhojwpteftpeet, trates <tf Bury St. Edmund's wiA 

^^e/A^;S±S: obtaWnR, d»««g W. editorAfe, aa 

Thomas Blunt, GorahOi. anmuty from the Prince of Waies^ 

Wm. Martin, ConihU]. foy the suimressiofr of articles sent 

A.a Gordon, EUh^eet-hilL ^ thatpapSr,reflertiogon his Royal 

This was an action against Mr. Highnetoanda certain Lady. This 

WheMe, (a Common Councilman Mr. B. for a time, positively demed» 

of the Corporation of London) as but upon investigatton, and the pro* 

Printer and Publisher of the Cmnttf duction of two explanatory letters 

Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser^ from Eari Moira and Captain Cock* 

for a libel in that paper of the 3d sedge, the fact was completely esta- 

of March, 181 2 ; to which the blished. Tllfe annuity, it i« ttT»e> <^ 

defendant pleaded Not GuiUy^ and not appear in the Prince's -household 

« justification that the charges con- accounts ; bit was granted through 

tamed in die said libel were speci- Mr. Weitjie tp the Tate Mr. Tatter* 

fically true. sail, the other proprietor of the 

lifr. Solicitw-General stated the Morning* Post; and from Mr. Tat* 

plaintiff's case, who, he said, was tersall, and subsequently his Exe* 

pow a Magistrate for the county of cutors, Mr. Benjafield has continued 

Suffolk, residing at Bury St. Ed* to receive the annuity for more tham 

nmnds. He had been originally an twenty years." 

Officer of the King's Teomen of The publication of the libel, and 

the Guard, and subsequently ob- die defendant's reqponsiWity, wert 

taiaed a commission in the Kent first proved, when 

Jdiliua, through the- kte Dtike of Mr. John . Waymaa being called^ 

^ •¥»• XL V-No. 244* Y taid 



rsa THE. SPORTING HA6AZIN& 

said he had been five years Cl^k to to the reputatioii or property of thd 

the Magbti*sKes in the hundreda of indiridiial> the remedy was by an 

Thbgo and Thedwastryy and had action similar to the present, in 

known the piaimiiffbr that time as which the plaintiff states his injuryt 

a. Magistrate for the county, of Suf- and presents himself before a Jury 

folk* He had known him person- for pecuniary compensation. The 

ally tinoe ;i8oQ* ground of his acdon is the quantum 

' Upon his cit>ss<xatnieati6n» Mr, of injunous damage which he has 

Holt> who was fading Counsel for s^istaioed by the libellous matter.-*-^ 

the defendant, was permitted to ask It was their 'duty, therefore, to io- 

thc witnoss, whether he had ever quire* how much of his rightful cha- 

h^rd the ehasg^e which was made racter Mr. Benjafield had lost, and 

against the plaintiff, bcfoic it was what was the value of it. It was 

madeby the defendant ; Lord Ellen- evident, if the matter of the alledged 

hwmgh hokiingv that if th^ charge libel were truly imputed to the 

watvvery notorious, it might miti- {^aintiflf, there was no such injurious 

gat& the damage^ although it could damage as he complains of by his 

not justify. The Solicitor-General Ck>ttnsel this day. The basis of his 

9fgu€d eordra // but bis Lordship action is his character ; if therefore 

was clear, that if it could be proved he (Mr. Holt) should be able to 

that tl^ defendant was not the ori- shew that, as far as respected the 

ginator of the charge, it would repel present charge (beyond which, he 

ikk maUgnity to a certain extent, made no incursion into the character 

Tb^ ^toess proved that the charge of'the pkintiff), Mr. Benjafield had 

was die subject o£ pretty gejieral no character to lose, he had evident- 

oonveriAtion, previously •, to. January, ly no basis, no foundation for his 

tSia ; but at the same time Lord present action. How could that 15e 

EUeoborough said« that these con- said to be impaired which was before 

versatioils ii;iight be the rebound of destroyed ? How could an action 

the defendant's own slander. of damage be brought for a thing 

M f. Holt then silbmitt^ to his which did not exist i As well 

Lordship) that, however the offence i^ight one of the unfortunate frail 

bad been dressed up by the Solicitor- . vagrants of the street come before a 

.General, it did not, in point of law,, Jury with a claim for pecuniary da- 

amoont to a libel. . mages, for a^rsions thrown upon 

• Mr.-'E; Lawes, the defendant's her chastity. If, therefore, he should 

Couasdf'SttbmittiBg that there was. be enabled to shew, for he assured 

ifo evidence of identity, Mr. Way- the Solicitor^General that he was. 

man was re-called, and proved that not the agent of another man's ma-^ 

he hadoften heardtbe plaintiff called lice, nor the instrument of any libeK 

Captain Benjifield* lous confederacy against the peace 

Mr. Holt then addressed the Jury and good name of the plaintiff— if 

on the part of tb^ defendant, and he should be enabled to shev» strict- 

began by sta|iag the distinct reme- ly confining himself to the matter of 

dies for ltt>el» by indictment or in- tjie preseot cliarge, that the plaintiff 

formation, in order to preserve the had therein extinguished his own re* 

IJeaee,' and ia^ whi<;b case the peace putation ; that, if not in the exact 

was equally broken whether the shape and form, yet, in the full and 

libel was true or false. But, when liberal substance, he had done all 

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aod' which Mr. Benjafield this day from* these viewsand-fetlai^y^fm^h 
denie«) otherwise he had no ground he should fail a little in tbttitjufttt^ 
for the present action ; if he should cation^ he would not, on that account^ 
shew all this, the justification would forfeit his daith to a verdict. But 
be made out and sustained, and the it was the duty of tfaeJoiy to look 
defendant entitled to their verdict* into the condition and drcumitaDces 
»— Mr. Benjafield would then appear of the plaintiff, who came before 
to have suffered no injury^ but what, them with this^ complaint of hit 
by the previous destruction of his disparaged reputation. The Soitci- 
own character, by his own act, he or General had taken a wide circuit 
had brought upon himself. Mr. over the plaintifPti life^ he had ex- 
Holt said, that- he would venture to hibited him as anoiker in the army, 
assume, that his Lordship would and as a Magistrate in the county of 
direct the Gentlemen of the Jury, Suffolk, but he did not venture to 
that if a man had degraded himself, bring him formally, and by diiect 
had misconducted himself, had acted testimony, before the Court, as the . 
unworthily in his particular calling, Editor and Proprietor of the Mom' 
and offensively to the general system ing Post, He preferred to ab^i* 
of society* and another shouldchoose don all the counts o£ hi^ dedara- 
to publish what he had so done, as tion, but one . county rather than 
an example and warning to others, venture to do tht& It was reason- 
although the publisher wa^ clearly able, howe%'er, for the Jury to wish 
answerable in a criminal proceeding to know who the plaintiff really 
against him, yet, in an action brought was. Perhaps he would be foqndt 
for the private damage, the defend- upon en<]uiry, to be of that virgin 

- ant had a right to put a justification and maiden purity which had n^^ver 

upon the records of the Court, and before been assailed,*-^ that deli- 

to maintain that what he had . writ- cacy and chastity of honour which' 

ten was correct and true. For it every fjeeling mind would soppltcate 

was no such calumny as constituted the winds of Heaven not to visit too 

a private injury if the charge were roughly. No, Gcndemeo, Mr. 

founded in truth ; and a justification Benjafield would be found to be; a 

. was the most manly way of meeting Power in the war of invective and 

the action. It was, upon the part abuse, a veteran in that combat in 

of the defendant, a bold and honest which he now complainsof a scratch, 

avowal, in the face of his country Mr. Benjafield (he spoke only from 

and the Court, that he was conscious evidence) wouid uipear to iiave 

of no falsehood. Aod if the defend- walked the streets of thia metropolis 

ant should fail a trifle in his justifi- as the prostitute of. the press for 

cation ; if, in animadverting upon twenty years.-~OtheUo himself had 

a large extent of conduct, a hand's not had more hair-hreadth escapes; 

breadth of the original charge should had not fought more gallantly in 

be uncovered, nevertheless, if the the breach, both of action and \x\* 

defendant had written with just aod dictment, than -Mn Benjafield.-i^ 

honest views, with a warm sense of What kind of an action then is this ? 

indignation at the slur cast upon his Is it the action of a man oi' clear, 

trade by the plaintifPs misconduct — erect, unspotted honour, against the 

for what Mr. Benjafield had been, assailant of that honour, so justly 

. the Proprietor of a newspaper, Mr. valued, and so dearly prized ? Or is 

t Whebki was row ; if ht had written it the action (lus .lordship woold 

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fergif* ikt exfmtioo) of a Penu not^ indeed, with the warm and fao* 
ietU Wm^km against the iDdeconim neat zeal of the defendant this day» 
of her nriijhbottr. PeniierUt did make bold and manly charge^ and 
ht call him 1 No ; he had no doubt then justify them. Mr. Benjafield's 
hot that he ahould esublish by his mode of attack was, under the hedge 
cvidtnee» dut, ao (far from being of inuendo, to shoot at the loftiest 
|»eniientf Mr. Benjaiield was now characters of the country, and, with 
actually in the receipt of, and for the safe ammunition of stars and 
twenty years past had been receiv- dashes, to keep himself out of the 
inft che^ wms of his bt^ity ; reach and grasp of the law by a 
and he had the effrontery to come wicked and cowardly ingenuity. 
before a Jury to solicit dam^;es for The sute of the Morning Post 
aspersions cast upon his renuUtion, was at this time upon the &cline : 
now that he is actually in leaping, to raise the sale or a falHng paper, 
Bot it was necessary to advert to on the 25th of December, thei^ 
the libel itself, which the Solicitor appeared in the Morning Post of 
Cicnend had dressed up with that thatday the following paragraph: 
dbqueot ingenuity which he was The Solicitor-General objected to 
accuatomed tobesbowopon a naked the reading of published paragraphs 
canse. But divested of this apparel, in former transactions of the Morn- 
it wu a Tery ample case indeed. ingPost. 

It was necesnry, periians, to enter Lord Ellenborough confirmed the 
into some detail which might br objection. In this way, any mam 
tigue the pfitience of the Court ; might have his whole life ransacked, 
but Mr. Holt pledged himself, that and whatever he had written, said, 
nothing should escape him injurious or done, brought forward to illus« 
to the feelings, the dignity, and ho- trate any specific charge. There 
nour of third parties. Mr. Holt would be no limit to this : it might 
then went into the detail of the take in the whole universe. 
case. In the year lygS, Mr. Ben- Mr. Holt said, that the Vbcl ac- 
jjafield was a Proprietor of the Mom- cuaed the plaipttfFof having obtained 
ing Post Newspaper, and although an annuity by suppressing certain 
his interest in that paperlvas only articles, simihu-to diat which he had 
two twenty^ourths, or one twelfth, been about to read, and for which 
yet as joint Lessee, and Editor, the a prosecution had been threatened, 
whole controul and management of The Solicitor^General protested 
the publication devolved upon him. against making the defence a vehicle 
The Gentlemen of the Jury well for repeating danders. 
knew what an uaefiil article a roa- Mr. Hoh proceeded to state, that 
chine like a daily paper was, in cer- the paragraphs to which he alinded, 
tain hands. A <ranattst had not were onensive to certain persons of 
more power over his audience, the Prince's household ; and that 
through the medium of their hopes Mr. Bicknell, the Soiicrtor to the 
mnd fears, than the dexterous Editor Prince of Wales, received orders 
of a Newspaper^ by means of his from Admiral Payne, who was then 
engine, poBsessedoverpublic persons, of the household, to threaten a 
Mr. Benjafield had gpcat skill in prosecution of the paper, if it cdn- 
this way ; he was a perfect Shake- tinned its libellous atudcs. Mr.Ben- 
spearein his art, ind had no mercy jafield, so far from desisting from 
in theme .of hia falents* . He did^. them iip^mdMinelilicatioBi repeated 
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^tntf andpou^d forth a volley of jtur duty. As for the varties to 
invective. It was then sftiggestedy tl^s cause» it is impo^ble to bft , 
that the only way of abating this otherwise than indifFerent to them* 
ouisancey was to give the libeller his at least as they have shewn them- 
price. selves in this cause. All that passed 

The Sbiicitor-General 8aid» that at the Quarter Sessions — ^that the 
It was extremely distressing to him plaintiff was arraigned by his br«>- 
to be obliged to interpose to prevent ther Magistrates — that be denied 
this story of a negociation concern- the charge — ^that it was established-^ 
ing past paragraphs of the Momins that the annuity was paid him-— ^ 
Posty because it would be attributed this you must prove." 
bythose who did not know him, to Mr. Holt then proceeded toob- 
some other motive than his anxiety serve upon the notoriety of the 
for the interests of his present client; charge against the plaintiff, and its 
but diose Who knew him would give frequent discussion at Bury, by the 
him credit for the singleness of his Magistrates assembled* at whidi 
intentions ; and what those who did town he was' desired to purge hhn* 
BOt know him thought, would be self from it, or to abstain from thdr 
no g^eat distress to him. It was meetings. — He then implied to Lord 
clear that this negociation respect- Moira, who would be called in evi* 
infir published paragraphs, was ir- dence, and was very cautious in not 
rekvant; for the paragraphs alledged giving him the right clue to the 
to be strapressed could never have ascertainment of the fact of his be- 
been published. Was it to be en- ing ab annuitant of the Pnnce <>f 
dured, that all the paragraphs that Wales. He at first procur^ 'a 
had ever ap|>eared in the Morning testimonial from his Lordship, which 
Post were to be raked up and re- he produced to the Magistrates at 
read? Bury: but Lord Moira is shortly 

Mr. Holt submitted, that it was afterwards guided to the proofs which 
necessary for him to riiew how the convince him of the plaintiff's an- 
annuity was obtained. nuityship ; and he indignantly writes 

Lord Ellenborongh said, that it to die plaintiff, revoking his former 
^as open to the defendant in justi- letter — ^nd to the Chairnan of the 
£cation to nrove that the chai^ was Quarter Sessions, correcting his for* 
denied before his brother Magis- mer testimony. Mr. Holt said» 
trates ; and that the annuity was that as it was deemed irrelevant to 
granted to 'Mr. Weltjie, and was shew what was the source and on* 
paid to the plaintiff through Mr. gio of this annuity, — he should con* 
Tat^rsall and hit executors; but tent himself with proving — firsts 
in defending themselves, people must that Mr. Benjafield bad been charged 
not erect a stage for the purpose with the matters of this imputed 
of scattering poison and mischief libel, which he could establish by hia 
upon others. . own (Mr. B.'s) admission ; and 

The Solicitor General added, that secondly, that he was actually now 
Counsel ought not to be put to the receiving an annuity from the rrince 
" necessity of taking these objections, of Wales — ^The Learned Counsel 
Lord Ellenborongh, — ^** A pub- then addressed himself to the ques- 
lication which does you credit, Mr. tion of malice in the composition of 
Holt, enables me to say that you this libel, which had be^n proved 
^rf wttt know die proper limits of not to be the invention of the de- 
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fendant ; and lastly to the quenka 
of damage sustained bj the plaintuF. 
Was that damage in profits of trade? 
-i-the plaintiff was not now a tradea- 
man. Was it in the loss of his ho- 
nour and dignity, or of his ease and 
comfort in the estimation of his 
equals ? — ^no special damage was ei- 
ther laid or proved. He defined 
malice, as the unprovoked resent- 
ment of a mean and unworthy mind; 
and asked if such was the parent of 
the present paragraph. If his Lord- 
ship and the Jury should Ik of opi- 
nion that his justificasion had^ not 
been fully made good, it would then 
be for the latter to apportion their 
damages to the smallest possible 
atom of injury which such a charac- 
ter as the plaintifPs could receive. 

The Earl of Moira deposed, that 
the plaintiff in the beginning of 
November, 1811, wrote to him re- 
quesung a meeting, and at that in- 
terview mentioned the calumny 
which had been reported among his 
brother Magistrates, respecting his 
having extorted from the Prince of 
Wales a sura of money and grant of 
an annuity, as a consideration for 
suppressing certain articles, which 
he had threatened to publish in his 
newspaper, relating to the Prince 
and Mrs. Fitzherbert. He stated 
to his Lordship, that there was no 
foundation whatever for such a ca- 
lumny; but that tlie rumour had 
injured him exceedingly among his. 
brother Magistrates. In order to 
rebut it, he entreated his Lordship 
to furnish him with a testimonial that 
tl:iere was no foundation for the re- 
port. His Lordship replied, that 
he would immediately inform himself 
upon the business, and take every 
proper step in it. The plaintiff did 
not inform his Lordship of any pay- 
ment of annuity ; so far from it, the 
impression was clear upon his Lord- 
jhlp'ft mind, thut his whole conver- 



tation amovoted * to . air asiertioK 
that be had not received any such 
payment: and his Lordship could 
not be deceived in putting /that con" 
S^ruction upon the conversation ; 
for, upon refeiring to a copy of his 
Lordship's letter, written at that 
time, he found that he had distinctly 
stated such to be its .{enour. After 
this, some Gentlemen desired to see 
his Lordship, and to explain certain 
circumstances, under which he found 
reason to alter his opinion, and felt 
himself under the painfid necessity 
of writing to the plaintiff, request- 
ing that the letter which his Lord- 
ship had before sent him might be 
restored to him ; and apprising him 
at the same time, that as he had 
stated to his Lordship that the ob- 
ject of his application was the ex- 
planation of his C0nduct to his bro- 
ther Magistrates, he felt it incumbent 
upon him to write to the Chairman 
of the Quarter Sessions, and explain 
the error into which he had been 
betrayed ; as, upon enquiry* his 
Lordship did find that Mr. B. was 
in the receipt of an annuity# and 
reasons led him to believe that it was 
on account of the Prince of Wales : 
indeed many circumstances which 
he then ascertained^ led him to in&r 
that such was the fact. 

Lord Elienborouglup— " Your 
Lordship ascertained enough to war- 
rant you in your estimation in infer- 
ring that such was the fact V* 

Earl Moira.—" Yes." 

His Lordship then stated, that 
he had an immense mass of letters 
from Mr. B. respecting the transac- 
tion ; but he did not know whether 
the wording of his subpoena would 
warrant him in producing them. 
Some, if not all the copies of his 
Lordship's letters to Mr. B. had been 
destroyed. 

The Solicitor General objected 

to the production 01: notice Qi any 

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letters except those directly con- stood both by the £ither and son, 
nccied with the justification of the- and both continued to pay me. I > 
charge made against Captain Beoja* cannot consent to what is now pro- 
field, posed; indeed had any such regula- 
Mr. Holt then said» he was about tion been in contemplation, the an«> 
to prove that the annuity was still ouity must have been equal to 400L 
paid to the plaintiff. instead of 350I. The agreement as 

. The Solicitor-General 8Ugg(sted» well as the tong practice being for 

that he must produce the explana- the annuity of 350I. I cannot sub- 

tory letters alluded to in the justified mit to any deduction; and I trust 

libel. ^ you will have the goodness to ex« 

. Lond EUeoborough said, that if plain the matter to Mr. X>ewbery» 

he did not lay a ground for such an and to direct the payments to be 

assertion as that which the libel Jus- continued as usual. In case of its 

tifiedy he vrould fail in the justiiica- being otherwise* / shall then have 

tion as to tliat point. sq other, remedy than by applying 

Mr. John Bear4more9 executor to that Persona^e^. on tonose ac^ 

to the late Mr. Richard Tattersall» count the annuity 'was granted 

said* that he paid an annuity to the to me^ and uoho JuUy indemnified 

piaintiff, through the present Mr. Mr, TattersalL — Vour's, &c. 
Tattersall. The plaintufFdi-ew upon '^ John Bknjafi£I4>.*^ 

Mr. T. and the witness reimbursed . Upon the f:ro8s-examination of 

him. The witness was reimbursed this witness* by the Solicitor-Gene- 

from the Duchy of Cornwall office* ral» he said* that this Mr. T. wa» 

by Mr. Gray. He had paid this grand-father of the present* and was 

-since the death of Mr. T. in 18 10. a proprietor of the Morning Post 

The phintiiT complained of the de- for many years, 
ductipn of the property-tax* by a Mr. Richard Tattersall said* that 

letter to the witness* , which was he paid the plaintI£F his annuity* and 

proved and read. The letter was was reimbursed by the last witness, 
directed to J. Beardmore* Esq. It was admitted by the plaintifi* 

Queen-str^t* May-fair* dated. Bury th^t the payment was made out of 

^t. Edmund's* De^. 23, 1 810. It the Prince's privy purse, 

^as to the following, effect :-** . Dr. Ord was then called by the 

. <' Dear SiR-^I-have received a defendant's Counsel* but did not 

letter from a Mr. Dewbery* stating* appear. 

that he has been desired by the Exe- The Solicitor-General* in replv* 

cutors of tiie late Mr. Tattersall said* thkt Dr. Ord had not been sub** 

only to pay me for the last half year* pcenaed* and that the defendant had 

on my allowing the Pfoperty Tax to not dared to subpcena. him. He 

be deducted. Before I answer that said it was notoiious that the Mom^ 

Gentleman's letter* I must address ing Post had about the time of the 

you who know more of my trans- plaintiff's secession changed its poli« 

actions witli Mr. Tattersall than Mr. tics to the Anti-Ministerial* and 

p.- My auniiity w^ granted by ascribed this to Mr. Tattersall's 

Mr. T. clear of all deductions* and becoming a proprietor : he attri«> 

free from ail taxes* as . expressed in buting the annuity to the officious 

the dee4* in fact, it expresses that zealofsome of his Royal Highnes^'t 

I was to receive the perpetual neat Household, in desiring Mr* xattef* 

skm of 3j;q1« This was w^U under^ sail to make the. bargaia with the 

« J jj^lainti^pf^ 



^ "MU 6l?&»tlVG MAOAZINE. 

plaictifFy and get rid of him as £di«> had publithed^ by ctatiAg' thftt hi 
tor. The question was, whether ooly published what he c^iki prote 
the annuity was gratoted for suppres- to be true. The libel in* this in- 
vng any paragraphs : the Sdicitor* stance, it was true, was to be dii* 
General wouJd have defied them to tinguished from' a libel which was 
fcare prored the Prince of Waks's proeecutjed by indictment or infbr- 
consent or pririty to such a measure, mation. In the present case^ if the 
The defenoant's Counsel might have whole had been proved' to be true, 
examined Lord Moira, yfho had then would the defendant be war* 
idways been in his Royal Htgbness's mated in entering his justificadon ; 
confideirce» as to that circumstance* butfor such justification to avail him 
The Pnnce of Walea might have any things hie must prove the truth 
considered hiiHaelf under an honour- of every ipec^ pari of it* But 
HAe engagement to reimburse all had the dmndant proved the truth 
those who bad been over-foolish and otaUitB specific parts ? In the first 
•ver zealous in his service : but h* place it was said in the pablicbdon» 
<fefied any one to prove that ote that his broUier Magistrates had 
shilling of his Royal Highness's made the charge agunst Mr. B* 
money had been expended for such Now that fiict luid not been proved,* 
f .purpose. If such a Question had and yet it might have been ^ved 
teen asked from any ot those per- by calling !>. Ord. Then it said 
sons, he should not have had occa- that Mr. B. had for a time posi- 
fton to reply. He vrished that Mr. tively denied die chaige ; but the 
Benjafield, if he had known the fact, fact of such transitory denial had 
had always stated it correctly. The not been proved. The defendant 
^ing that was most distressing to ought to bave proved these specific 
him >sras, that h^ could be eveo parts of the publication; which, 
suspected of taking a bribe not to however, he faaa not done*; and the 
wound the feelings of others ; the letters had not been produced, for 
Ibdest charge that could be made they had been destroyed. Nor does 
against the Conductor of a Paper, it appear that iht anoutty was grant- 
He did ttot seek for yindicdve da- ed through Mr. Weltjie, and that 
xnages,, nor did he even state that Mr. Benjafield has teccived it for 
tikr defendant had been led by ma- more than twenty years ; but it ap- 
fic^, but only chat he had lent his pears diat an aanuity from Mr. Tat- 
powerful fl^chinjC to disseminate ca- tersail's executors was paid. Such 
^^umiy against odiers. He came a justification, dierefbre, fails in 
hc^re to vindicate hischaracter against poitit of proof, which reduces this 
diat specific charge, and should rest matter to a qneitioo of damages. It 
satisfied whatever might be the da- is a ooestion then oiereiy tor your 
Images they diought proper to allow* consideration, what is llie proper 
Lord £l]ed}orough summed up amount of damages dvittheplatntiff 
for the Jury. Having stated the had susuined br this libeU The first 
Xbel and the circumstances. attend- witness says that he has known the- 
ing^ its publication, his Lordship pUntifF to be a Magistrate for this 
observed, diat the defendant had in, county for five years, ind that he 
die first plac^ pleaded not guiltyy has heard co n ve r s a tion u to the 
Krhich was denying the pubhcation subject of the libeh It is to a cor- 
CF a* Hbd ; and secondly, he had tain degree for your consideraftionf 
^^rM a ^ustificatton of what he t^bether a man institutijig^ a- charge* 
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TBEr SPOKPINO MAGAZIN1P/ Kl^Jt 

HfieWi origioaliDg from himself, or imputation is $ucb fts woakl he de«. 

circulating it "wkta made by others, structive of the purity of that fame 

Makes any difference, if he be at the which a Magistrate or ^oy private 

3aii)e time the; original circulator by - individual must aim at possessing, as 

publication. The principal evidence there cannot be a worse, or a more- 

in this case is that of Lord Moira, dishonourable offence, than that of 

wha has been called for the defen- obtaining money either for the pjir- 

dant. (Here his Lordship recapi- poses of publishing or suppressing 

tttlated the evidence of the Noble defamation and calumny. By this 

£arl, and other witnessea for the sort ' of defamation, however, Mr* 

defendant.) — Now, Gentlemen, that $• the plaintiff in this case, has bus* 

this annuity was grafted by *Mf. tained in^ry : ^you will therefore 

Tattersall to the plaindff, th^e can consider what damages are justly 

be no doubt. Whether it were for due to him. If this imputation had 

the transfer of the share, or for been made upon a person of entire' 

what purpose, does not appear ; the and pure fame, it would certainljr 

libel states that it was for this si^ have deducted from that entirety and 

pression of certain paragraphs inju- purity. 

rious to his Roy^ Highness the The Jury, after a short C0B«uIta«'< 

P.rinceof Wales ; in order to shew tion, however, found their*-^ Fen&ci 

tfa'at, it should have been proved Jbr the dtffindant, 

that articles of that nature were ac- i 

taally suppressed, so that in this par- ' 

ticukr the justification failis, except opnpT'TXTr' ttoaoac 

that an anxwity was paid, proceeding SPORTING FRACAS. 

fixMn hii^ Royal Highsess the Prince 

of Wales, and paid through Tatter-. AT the Qvfarter Sessions for the 
sail and his executCHTSi to the plaintiff, County of Middlesex, held oa 

for it was admitted that the payment Wednesday, the 1 3th instant, Hugh 

of the money was made out of his' Smith was indicted for an assault 

Royal Highnesses pnvy purse.*— on John Warrington ; there was also < 

Su^h, Geatleikien, is thei nature of a cross^ndictment against John War- 

the evidence that has been^ adduced,' rin^on and Pearson, for as* 

and upon this case certainly the de* saulting Hugh Smith. It appeared 

fendant stands undefended as to the by the statement of the Counsel and 

libel in question, his justification hav- the evidence produced, that on the ^ 

ing- failed ; all the particulars of a 9th of August last the prosecutor^ 

defendant's justification must in such John Warrmgton, who is the son of 

a case be fiiHy proved ; tjiey have, the .Rev. Mr. Warrington, of Eal- 

notbeen proved, and you will there* ing, and a student at Oxford, was 

fore find a verdict for the plaintiff, trying a gun, in a field beioogmg; 

As to the quantum of damages, I toMr.Woikl, the master of Smith ^ 

shall say litde to you ; you have all he was shooting at swallows, in. 

the circumstances of the case before company with a Mr. Cox, and Bear* 

you. It appears that it is stated, son, his butler, was in attendance.--* 

that the plaintifFhad taken money to Smith came to them in a great pas** 

suppress a paragraph which we are sioo» and said, ^ I have been look« 

to suppose was calumnious againrt ing for you a loftg time, and now^ 

the persons to whom it pointed; d-*-n your eves, I have caught 

that, however, is not proved, but the you*'' He also 8W<»e hewonldk ; 
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have tHe gun. Mr. Cox had the different offence — ^it would perliajit 

gun, aftd Mi*. Warrington took it hate been a felony ; the prisoner had 

and gave it to Pearson. Smith then been gnilty of an assanit, and the 

•truck at the prosecutor, with the Court sentenced him to be impriaoih' 

butt end of his gun, and prosecutor ed one month. 

immediately knocked him down.— ' ^ 

The prisoner in an instant jumped' ' ' ' ' " '" ' '■ ■ ^ ' ' = *=^ 

up and levelled his gun at the pro- ^ t n a turr 

accutor, at the same time swearing THE REVENGEFUL GAME- 

he would blow his bot(>ets out. The STER. 

prosecutor on this retreated, and the — —- - 

jsrisoTier took up a stone and threw TPHE following melancholy affair, 

it at him ; it struck him a severe is derived from a Letter lately* 

blow on the hip, and caused lame- deceived by the friends of one of our 

ness ; a second st(^e struck him Officers serving in Spain : 

«m the back. Enraged by this, the ' ** AKcanU Nov^ 2. — ^On the 

firosecutor rushed forward, wrested evening of the 3i8t of October, a 

the gun from the prisoner, and knock-. Spanish Officer quartered in this 

ed^im dc^Rm. The prosecutor ac- city, had lost at the game of billiards 

Mnowkdged that he anerwands pall*- 3000 dollars to Lieutenant Foley of 

ed off his coaty and challenged to die 58th regiment. Immediately 

fight the prisoner, who declined. afterwards, the cowardly Spaniard 

' The prisoner declared, that on meditated the perpetration of the 

his coining into the . Eeld, the pro- foulest crime that man is capable of 

secutor accosted him in Very oppro- Committing, and having resolved on 

brious language, and first struck the execution of his murderous de- 

InftK. He describefd the prosecutor sign, he Withdrew, apparently in 

as a first-iate miller ; and that he good humour, and concealed himself 

had knocked him down at every in a dark passage, leading ^m the 

biow ; and that, when the^ Mood billiard-room to the street ; Lieote- 

began to flow, the prosecutor said, nant Fbley* riiortly after was return- 

^ there' d — n your eyes, I've tapped ing home to his apartments, and on 

your- vessely how d'ye like it ?"— his going through the passage where 

This was denied by the evidence die' Spanish Omcer had concealed 

for the prosecution. himself, the murderous assassin stab- 

« Mr. Watson, who presided, sum- bed him throu^ the heart with a 

med up and explained the nature stiletto. Of the mortal Wound the* 

of an assault to the Jury, who im- brave Irishman instantly expired, 

mediately found Smith gtti/^y, and and his mifi-derer has efllected his 

acquitted ^h^ others. escape. 

• The Chairman, in passing sen- «• Lieutenant Fpley was bom at 

tence, said, that the prisoner had act- Killarney, and was a young Officer 

ed in the capacity of a gamekeeper of great promiaie — ^he particujariy dis- 

te Mr. Wood, and it was right for tinguished himself in Egypt, and in 

all such persons to know that they several engagements in the Penin- 

were not authorised to take a gun: sola; he was universally esteemed 

ff om any persoo shoidtin^ on the land by his brother Officers, who have 

oi their employers. Ifthe prisoner ^tso highly incensed at the manner 

Itfid tabea the gun in » question, he in which their brave fellow soldier 

t have beMi tried for a very wasbaselyilatQ^ that they offered » 

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vtwirR of 500D1. for the apprebeo- 
fioD of biB iuurd«rer. It was ge- 
oemlly suppoacd that tha jruffian 
had deserted to the Freneh Ar^» 
and, i& order, if possible^ to detect 
him, a. flag of trace was sent to 
their camp. The Frepcb Officers, 
holdiog in abhorrence so foul a 
deed, tendered to the English every 
pbsiibk assistance that might lead 
to the discovery of the assassin, who 
has yet eluded the vigilance of 
their search. 



TH£ STAGE COACHMEN ANJ> 
THE PUGILISTS. . 

T*MEi spirit of oppofitionio Stage- 
coach proprietors has hceaoar* 
ried to a greater pitch in this coun- 
try than -any thing else, such as 
rfmaing against horse flesh, reduc^ 
ing their prices till tbey have ac- 
tually carried passengers for no« 
thiag, and in some instaaces they 
have created people with a dinner 
and a bottle of wine, bat in a re« 
•cent case they have aotually had a 
jnegular flght for the coach, the 
*' Royal Leeds Union," which, 
till within these few days, used to 
put op at the White Horse Inn, in 
ftitter4aae; bat in consequence of 
a dispute between the proprietors 
•f that Inn, and those in the eoun- 
try, they determined on discon- 
tinuing to let it run to the White 
Horse, and ordered it to be driven 
to the Angel Inn, in Aiigel-street, 
St. Martin*s-le-Gniad. This so en- 
raged the proprietors of the White 
Horse Inn, that they determined on 
bringing the coach to the Inn by 
force, and for that purpose em- 
ployed some prize- fighters^ couch- 
D^en, guards, &c. &c. and on Satur- 
day, toe 26tb ult. tbey were sent in 
f ost'chaises frooi London to Bar- 



uet^ being the last sta|pe previo«s» 
to its -arrival in town. , 

The coach arrived at Barnet be- 
tween one aiMi two.o*clook; the 
change of horses to take it to.tha 
Angel Inn were in readiness, as 
were also a set of horses to take it 
to the W^hite Horse Inn, when. 4k 
general fight took place hutweeii 
the partisans of the two Inns, as 
to which horses, should ba put . to> 
It lasted for a. considerable time, 
during which several black eyes 
and bloody noses were given, and 
teeth knocked out. Jay, the priz^ 
fighter, bad a. black eye given and 
a tooth knocked out. 

It being discovered Who Jay ya( 
and that Power, another of h^ 
fraternity, were engaged in the af- 
fray on the |»ai*t of the White 
Horse Inn«*-the coachman^ and 
guard belonging to the. An^l 
lun, declared it in vain to coutinMC 
the contest with them^ and In 
conseH^ieuce hostilities ceaseil, apd 
the White Hor^e lun party carrieil 
.ofl' the co%ch» but not 5vithtf ut e<.*- 
periencing many difliculties, SoiQia 
of the passengers refused tp. pio- 
xeed with . it;. The coach . was 
drove to the White Horse ,IiMi; 
On .Sunday, the 27tb ult. it leff 
London from the same itui ; but 
when it got to Hatfield, such 
was tlie spirjt of opposition there, 
that it could not procure a change 
of horses, and it was actually 
obliged to return to Loudon. 

By the activity of Adkins anc) 
Pearkes, the Bow-street officer^ 
and some of tbe patrole, J^y aud 
Power, tbe prize-fighters j Ueqr^ 
Elliott, a coachman ; John. Mer- 
chant, a coachman ; Cl\a^les Tur- 
ner, a guanl ; Robert Cook, a 
guard ; James Buckingham, a 
horse- keeper; and Stepb.en Good- 
win, a horse-keeper, of the White 
Horse Inn party, were saken into 

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eostody^, and beld to bail far the' h&m bluoden; fts might W^lt'fl* 
violent assault-on Jatnes WiHia-ms' sttpposed^ but f'tttt as f ne<|Uently Ibr 
and John Boyle^ the coachman ike nonce, or of their own heails, 
8Ad guard belonging to the Angt;! att^ng the cut and form and figure 
InB. ' <^f a M^>rd, adding or sirhtractlng 

a letter, is to their refined «ense oi 



■ •n I-.., A miii ■»■ . I T..u.'.wii^'i,»im ■■■T;i;srg. 



hearing may seem best. ¥br ex- 

TCRF AND OrBER; .fetUN- f«»Jl*^' they took a liberty ot tbi* 

p ^ ' kind to imf rove the prontniciation 

Dil^Kl^Alb^ of the names of tw*^ raceri, belrnig- 

Oipping md OmiHg, mid In^rmite 0/ i^g to Sir Charle* Bimbttry, Dio- 

Sugliik, from igftotance- and Learned med and GianreM. The first they 

Agec^^Hoa. invariably pronounced Di-oM-MED, 

T^ the EdiU^"^ Spmtmg Ma- the latter Gi-IS-tes.. 

saxme, A gentleman in Hampsb ire, some 

siK year^ ago, having a large stud of 

PERHAPS nothing of this Wnd ^^ows, and being likewise in the 

* waii ever more nmt and getiuine l^abits of the racing stud, thought 

thnn the following, for which 1 Pi^ojw to bestow nap)^ «{k»i tis 

•m indebted to an Honourable Ba^ gruiuiiig breeder*, one ot wbrth 

ronet, long di>»tinguished upon the *» caAki'i Newbockentobo^hofax : a 

tarf, and im> less for an open heart, yo»»8 «wiweberd, by vutjie of the 

and a miod truly suwieptible of all qualification just descnbeci, proba- 

the pleasures of a good joke. There Wy feeliag a diffinuUy in the utter. 

tvBS formerlv u|>on the t«irf a horse «««• ^f 9Q long a word, m that 

named Alcidbs, I think got by there was greater propriety in cer- 

Regnltts. The grooms itodjockies, taki well kaowa associacions, rea- 

*f4ien they came to read this name, ^ily substiiuted firtcce->4, from 

demurred, in the true style of John "^^^^ *>« ^^^^ ^^j*^ " ^"^ 

Bull, to the outlandish pronuncia^ during the natural life ot the aow, 

tfoB, which they had heard from nor I dare say ever aft(r.-^lo the 

., . . . _,. A ^— _ sama neighbourhood, .when the 

their superiors, to wit, Al-ci-des, TIV j 11 

A 1 »^ j;. I \. ^ *i, nan*© ok Meodom was. popularly 

and delermlned nam, con. on the ^, ^ .^ ^^^ universiUrFO- 
superior Enghsh pmpnety of pro. ' ^^ refomer3; ilSL- 

nouncing the word All-sides. To , ^ 

crown the joke, the horse was re- * * 

markably long and flat sided ! The liabitm\1 omission, or rather 
Another horse. Some years after- through long habit, continued from 
*wards, was named II Penseroso, father to son, inability to pro- 
wbich words were adroitly converted nouuce the h, in certain words, 
by the above cited authority, into where it ought to be sounded, and 
Spenser the Grocer, by which of using it vrith a strong aspiration 
convenient and euphonically com- where it has no business, has long 
pounded appellation, the racer was been a topic of ridicule upon cock- 
ever after wards distinguished. The uiesandYorkshiremen. Thus, says 
vulgar, indeed, as all observers of a ' Yorkshiremen,* I saw a howl 
life and manners well know, have perched upon the back of an eifer, 
ever been great reformers of Ian- It seems almost supernatural, that 
gua^e^ and by t\o meabs always such a' vice of articulation, should 
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thus dese«iKl from fktlier to son, 
mlo a polbbcd and uniTersally 
learned century, and that nativei 
of th^' metropolis^ who Iiaveeven 
had A good eductttran, may be 
i^eard making kotoh at public de- 
bates, ^r ought I know, in Far* 
liament, although I have never 
heard my old friend Sir William 
Curtis assert so much. Surely, this 
is almost* as good a proof of origi- 
nal sin, as the universal relish for 
rotten cheese. The spirited alte- 
ration of the Polish lady's name, 
LO'doiS'ka, the subject of an Eng- 
lish Opera, into a Load-of -whisky , 
must be in the recollection of aM 
the play-going inhabitants of the 
Metropolis. 

I shall conclude with an exam- 
ple of puppyism and affectation, 
from the vocabulary of our re*- 
forming play-house and newspaper 
critics, and the etpially learned 
keepers of seminaries-; among all 
fiiich fashionable folk, the word 
decorum, the o in which, is not 
only in the original Latin, but in all 
«etlate and classical English usage, 
as long as from hence to the door, 
is now mincetl, with the pronounc- 
ing lips screwed up like the toe of 
«i old stocking, into dekkSrutn, 
the o being pronounced short. I 
do not pretend to say that, all the 
'Oreek and Latin derivatives in our 
language, follow precisely in the 
above respect, the custom of their 
originals; but yet cannot help 
thinking, that if a change be de- 
termined on, it ought to be in re- 
turn thither, rather than in direct 
opposition; unless indeed, some 
^reat improvement in the sound 
^e quite obvious; granting that 
eonsideration can be the apology 
of a breach of tixed rules in one 
language, and of uniformity in the 
other. In this view, supposing the 
Aecessfty of change, we may just 



as well revert to tbeofiginal Greek, 
in geomHiry And geeiogy, hy pro^ 
, Roinnnng the first syllable' hard, 
instead of soft, as matty have lately 
^one, by changing the old aecus« 
tomed finglfsfa pronunciation of 
the word acadAny, into netMfmf * 
a change of no account in the light 
of improvement in the sound, and 
of as little conseqiien6e otherwise, 
^Bce the reason on which it it 
gmonded, does not, nor probiibly 
ever will, prevail in our language ; 
in which, as in every other, esta- 
blished use and custom are para« 
mount rules. These partial changes 
savour too much of the half-witted 
pedantry of those, who disguisa 
some particular words, in oldei>-^ 
new orthography. 



SSSZ 



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DESIDERATUM IN RACINQ 
PORTRAITS.^ 

To the Editor of the Sporting Ma* 
gazine. 

SIK, 

T Beg leave, through the extensive 
channel uf your M iscellauy, to 
suggest to Sporting Gentlemen and 
Artists, the propriety of affixing to 
every portrait the name, pedigree, 
and date of the horse, and if he be- 
of eminence, either as a racer or a 
stallion, a history of his perform- 
ances. In Older to avoid a ble- 
mish, the legend may be placed on 
the back of the canvas, which be- 
coming a general rule, every person 
interested, would know where to 
satisfy his curiosity, and how to 
judge of the worth of the picture. 
Many, to be sure, have names on 
the front of the canvas, but the^r 
greater part have not, a great dis- 
appointment to those sportsmen ; 
I acknowledge^ however, they ara 

few. 



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iew« wbo coDceni rkemselvM abowt 
th« formal and circumfttaoces^ at- 
tendant upon the race bor«e8 of 
long past times* Prom this geA4- 
lal inattention, at which I bav^ 
often wondered in pld sport^meoj 
it may be ensily conceived in hofif 
few yearsy the figine of a racer will 
get out of mcmiory, and bis por^ 
trait become forgotten and. dead 
like himself) more especially those 
Ikorses, of which^ however .highly 
▼alu^ble, from peculiar circ(|Un- 
stances, the portraits were not in 
i;eneral circulation. For example^ 
although the figures of Regiilus, 
Blank, and £clipse, are generally 
familiar, (low few have seen those 
fil OJid Spap, and the two Tartars, 
^by Partner and Blaze) or even x>{ 
King Jlcffldi — and although those 
horses are yet within the yerge of 
memory with our aged men of the 
turf, yet how little are they within 
the paiticiilar recollection of any 
such. If we recede^ still farther 
back^ to the days of Partner, Old 
Crab, Bbize, Flying Whig, M»8 
Neesome, Brocklesby Betty, The 
Carlisle Gelding, Bonny Black, 
The Bald Galloway, Childers, A^ 
^nanzor, Bay Bolton, Dragon, and 
as far probably as we can .go, to 
Basto and Place's White Turk, 
how necessary it is we should pos- 
sess. their portraits, if we .desire to 
)Lnow any thing of them, beyond 
their names and pertbrmai^ces. — 
The breeders of horses, who, in t^e 
choice of their stallions and mai e;$, 
are so apt to con ovei* the old pedi>- 
grees, and to calculiite upon the 
blood and qualities of the racers of 
old times, would surely find it sa- 
tisi'actory, to have an opportunity 
pf contemplating a representation 
of their real form, size, and aj)pa; 
j*eat powers. For myself, who 
have from early youth, hceu a turf 
tnthusiast, my jprejudicc and at* 



tacbment u^aoy^ry wmrm toivanb 
the famous high-bred racers at 
which we read^ that their portraits^ 
^henevef I meet with them, excite 
in my breast the mo$t pleasing and 
interesting sensations. On the 
other hand, I have often the mor<* 
tification of iqeetiug with namelestfl 
portraits, reprefcnting, perhaps* 
horses which I so well know hy 
names and qualification, and of 
which I may have often ardently 
desired to see the portraitui?. Be- 
ing at the hpuse of a sporting; 
friend lately, in a dining room, 
there was a fine portrait of a racev 
I had ^een many years jsince, bat 
could not recollect^ until his name 
was mentioned : the next possessor 
of the picture, may be as ignorant 
of the horse intended by it as I was. 
In. a great many houses, the fami- 
lies of which have belonged to the 
turf, there are portraits of which 
the names have been long since 
totally lost. It would be a grati- 
fication to kuQw particularly for 
reasons I lately stated, to what 
horse the portrait at Gog-Magog 
really belqnged, which has by som« 
been supposed to represent tUr 
Godolphin Arabian. How far 
would I ride, or even walk, to be 
indulged with the view of original 
pictures of the old Montague Mare, 
the Byerley Turk, the IXarley Ara** 
hian. Bully Rock, and the two 
True Blues, with their dam ?— It 
is true, that the art of animal 
painting was formerly in a most 
depressed and wretched state, in 
this country, in the exact propor- 
tion indeed, as it has been in these 
latter times, ingenious, scientific, 
and elevated ; hut even most of our 
old pictures of race horses, un- 
doubtedly possess the first-rate qua- 
lification of heing correct as to 
likeness ; and, perhaps uH, done by 
artists of any eiuinencc* in their 

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iviji bave enou^^h of it, to give 
siifllicieut general ideas of the form 
^f the animal which they repre- 
sent. I Kope these ohservations 
will have some degree of influence, 
with the |)ossessors of unnamed 
j)ortraits, who bave it in their 
power to remedy the defect ; and I 
^m, Sit, with many good wishes, 

A Bit of a Jockey. 
Jan. 14, 1813. 



rOX HUNTING IN YORKSHIEE. 

Y^E Rads worth Foxhounds had 

* a series of most excellent s port 
»on the three following hunting 
diays : 

• On Thursday, the 7*^ of Janu- 
ary, they inet at Fryston Willow 
Garth, and found immediately, 
running very quickly away towards 
^ormanton, and in excellent terms 
wifh their fox, when they unfor- 
tunately lost, in consequence of the 
bounds being most shamefully over 
ridden. They found a second fox 
at Aickton Pasture, which took 
boldly away to Newland, round by 
the Gorse, skirting Aicktofi Pas*- 
lure, towards Houghton Carr, but 
<}isdaining the' cover, boldly faced 
the open cotuttry for Castleford, 
and away for Glass Houghton, 
leaving Wcldon Wood on the left, 
and from thence for Fryston Plan- 
tations, 'with the gallant pack close 

at his brush be just got into a rab- 
bit bole, whence be was dug, and 
^iven to the bounds most truly de- 
serving bim. This bunt was one 
pH the most severe ever known in 
any country, -having gone ten miles 
in thirty-five minutes. In this run 
gentlemen had no opportunity of 
over-riding their bounds, as they 
mK ail competition at defiance, for 



the pace they went was so killing, 
that very few horses coald live neaf 
them, and, in consequence, both 
men and nags were seen dead 
blowa and scram bliog over the 
country in all directions. As it 
has of late been top much the fa- 
shion to undervalue the merits of 
this pack, on this occasion we beg 
leave to quote the celebrated ltn« 
of Goldsmith— 

** And those who came to laugh remained 
to pray," i 

Messrs. Oliver, Anderton, Blandi^ 
and the second Whipper-in, led the 
whole way, the rest of the fields 
consisting of above seventy horse- 
men—no where. We may fbrni 
some idea of the very great pace 
the bounds went, as the celebrated 
Leicestershire horse Ganymede laid 
down dead hear, and was witli dif- 
ficulty got to a stable. 

On Saturday, the gth of January, 
those hounds met at Nostell, and 
on trotting towards the cover, a 
fox was hallooed away over the 
park; he left Homcastle Wood te 
the right, over the Bottoms tor 
Hag Wood, thence away for Bads- 
worth to Darrington Moor, inhere 
being headed, the fox crossed the 
Went River, and that tremendous 
line of strong and deep enclosures^ 
for Upton Beacon, leaving tbe 
Gorse on the left, over the fine 
grass 'country for Hems worth, 
where the pack ran into bim near 
Sir Francis Wood's Plantations; 
they went the real pace, having 
passed this extent of country in 
forty-'five minutes, without a check* 
Oht of an immense field at start- 
ing, we noticed Messrs. Chadwick, 
Williamson, and Naylor, very for- 
ward. 

On Tuesday, the 12th of Ja« 
nuary, these bounds met at Wo« 
mersley Park, but whether tbe gen* 
tlemen were afraid of tbe Baloe 

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Drains^ or their horses have hccn ACCOlJSt OF A SIXGULAB DOGm 

isither shy of their cam, aH^t the — 

two former days* sporty the field TN the species of animak which, 

was but thinly attended :•— man has domesticated^ or rather 

• A Om^ few done the .port «. l^^'^ **» "^ «'*»« "^ •endt«ae. 

jQ»^*» NaturiT often produces monsters^ 

ei^er by excess* or defect. Of the 

Was most truly the case* After latter sort, I will here cite an ex- 

dra%v)ng two covers^, a fox was' ample as a nevv proof of the per- 

found in a hedge below Norton fection of instinct in the dog, and 

Priory, and. came away for Bird, of the resources of Nature. It 

SprJ ng,over the Brook, and through was first communicated to the pub • 

the line of Woods in the Womer- lie by M. Feret, jun. in the Jour^ 

sky cotintiy, back again by Bird nal de Physique for the month of 

Spring, and Womersley Grove, August, 1810. 

facing the open country, forSmea- In the month of May, IBOS, at 

ton, uid over the lugs by the river Paris, a black spaniel bitch, with 

Went towarjds Womersley Park> red spots, pupped eight youngs 

which they crossed at a racing ones : she was only allowed to keep 

pace oyer to Uodge Wood, by foiir, and of these four it was dis- 

Castle Farm, into Stapleton Park, covered in a few days, that one of 

and loinning the whole line of the them was deprived of the two front 

Plantations ^towards Wentbridge legs. It was thought it would not 

without hanging a moment, made live ; but this defect of conforma- 

•way for I>arringto\) Moor, leav* tion did not prevent it growing 

ing l)arrington village on the left, equally ar fast and as strong as the 

crossed the road, and passed along others j and it was two years old 

the Opep Commons for Gridling when the foUowiog description of 

Stubbs, whence turning to the left, it was drawn up. 

the fox went by Grove Wood and Two-legs, (for so she was called) 

over Grove Park, passing tbe Lon- had a considerable resemblance to 

don road near Ferrybridge in a line the wolf-dog, but the body was 

towai;ds /Pontefract, the gallant more elongated. Her hair was 

pack killed old reynard in capital Jong, rather rough, and of a browu 

style, in a grass field, after as se- colour. She often carried her ears 

veie a burst of fifty-six minutes as erect; her tail was a good de^ like 

was ever witnessed. The only thatof thefox, notooTy initsform^ 

horsemen who could live with the hut also in the manner in which she 

hounds throughout this severe carried it. She would caress very. 

chase, and were up at the death, freely, and approached towards 

were, Mr. T. Hodgson on Timo- pei'sons whom she knew, upon her 

thy, Mr. Hawke on the Dusty two himl legs, which she held wide 

Miller, John, the huntsman, on apart, and toes very open. If she 

Own Brother to Julius Cs&sar, and w^ished to advance quickly^ she used 

the second Whipper-in on Assas- the under part of her neck as a 

sin. From such a brilliant begin-: third leg to support herself with, 

ning of a young pack, may w.e not she then p'oceedeil with consider-* 

venture to predict capital sport in able velocity by successive leaps and 

future ? ^ springs ; but this constrained pro-» 

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sets off for the chase, unaccompa- morse, a Tragedy, from the pen ^t 

iiied by Harlequin, fcM- his galian- Mr. Coleridge. The JDromatit 

try is -such that be will not risk his Persona were 

neck in the pursuit. Fantaiooii Tht Marquis Valdez, Fa*") 

then mounts a sturdy pony. A large thertothetwoBrothen^/jL. « 

rough white horse/of a\ery sit ¥ete^a"':.'!'!..!°^^^^^^ 

fuiar. appearance, belonging to rton AlvarVhis'eideit »on...Mr. BBit^ 

[essrs. Clement! and Co. the rou- DonOrdonio,hisyoungeitl j|^ i^^ 

sic-sellers, is ridden by Grimaldi, Mrvied;;'"in rnquUUo;'\{Mn PowdL 

who ftgures away m great style on Zulime^, Attendant on M-^i^ Crooke. 

Ikis eoiu'scr, wit b a carman's whip var ,...., - j 

in his band, to urge the animal to ^"^r\.l^.!!!!!!'..^!!!^^ 

full speed. His horse not having Naonu ".......!!!!......."!!..3Ir.Wai^ 

a full tail, he unties his neckcloth, J(>oimaTere«i Miss &mth. 

»,yA aA:«:»r. L* *^ *!.« ^*.,.,... .;. « Alhadni, wifc to Isidore ...Mrs. Glover. 

and affixmg K to the stump, gives familiars of the Inquisition, Servants,&c. 
U the curious appearance it bears 

.in tl^e plate. — The hunt is next The scene, as may be collected 

. 4een, and the whole motley group i^rom the Dramatis Persona, is laid 

In full chase. The whole passed in Spain, and the events of the 

a):rQs^ the stage three times, with pl«y are supposed to have taken 

itU.4^8iin close pursuit ; but the place in the reign of Philip II. 

hissings and applauses of the audi* shortly after the close of the civil 

. euce so terrified the animals on the wars against the Moors, and dur- 

. first night of pcrfornwnce, that the i»g the heat of the persecution 

hunt went off very badly ] it has, which raged against them. The 

however, Biuch improved, and story is as follows :— - 

<:ontribuces.noCalittleto thee&ct Donna Teresa, an orphan hei* 

gf the Harlequinade. rcss, is brought up under the rooT 

The 4ady at a distance represents . of the Marquis Yaldez, with his 

Mrs. Parker, as Columbine ; nearer tWo sons, Don Alvar and Don Gr- 

.. to the view is a sporting tailor donio. They grow ufi together^ 

nearly dismounted > and the promt- and she is beloved by. both the bro- 

nent figure in the centre, is deao- thers, but her early affection fixes 

. minated <' the fat Parson, who, itself upon Don Alvar, the eldest, 

choosing to sport at his ease, is and this afiection is ripened by time 

armed with an umbrella, to avoid into the most pure and ardent love^ 

Sol's heating rays, so unpleasant to The preference given by Teresa to 

. sportsmen of his apparent brdk and the pi^tensions of Don Alvar alic- 

dignity. The animal introduced nates the friendship of )iis brother 

. is not a stag, but a toi»a, repre- fwm him, and resentment for 

sente4 to be of extraordinary fleet- slighted love, aided by a secret 

. ness, and procured for the purpose consciousness of his brother's su- 

from Bullock's Mnseum. pcriur virtues and amiableqtialities, 

. ■ - at length so inflames the mind of 

Onlouio, naturally proud, gloomy, 

ACCOUNT OF TWO NEW DRAMAS, and revengeful, that he resolves 

""'"" u|>on the destruction of his rival. 

DRUfiT-LANE THEATRE. ^q^ tliis purpose he employs Isi- 

. (3^ Saturday, the 23d instant, dore, a Moresco chieftain, but pi'e- 

was acted at this Theatre^ Re* tended Christian^ who with two 

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' etbers watching the expectjsd return 
of Don Alvar from ahroad^ attack 
him in a solitary place by the sea- • 
side^ but are disarmed by him> and 
compelled to a parley. Ordonio 
had not revealed to Isidore the se- 
cret that it was his brother's life 
which was to be sacrificed to his 
jealousy^ but misleads him by a 
feigned story of a stranger^ whose 
betrothed mistress he had first disi- 
honoured, and then married, and 
whose revenge could only be ap- 

* peased by blood. In the contest 
between them, however, both Isi- 
dore and Don Alvar discover that 
it is bis brother who has attempted 
his life, and that that brother has 
dishonoured his mistress. Heart- 
struck at the news, he throws away 
Itis svvord, and offers his breast to 
the assassin, who touched with pity 
spares bis life, on condition tha^ 
be absents himself from Spain for 
a certain period, and swears to ob-> 
serve an inviolable secresy. Ac- 
cordingly, Don Alvar, with his 
faithful servant, Zulimez, departs, 
and after fighting for three years 
under Prince Maurice in the wars 
of the Low Countries, returns to 
his native land, his mind still torn 
with anguish at the remembrance 
of disappointed love, and of a bro- 
ther's wrongs. At this point of 
time, the play opens. Don Alvar, 
with the aid of his companion, 
and disguised in a Moorish dress, 
proposes to see Teresa, and learn 
from her the truth of the story he 
had heard from Isidore. For, 
armed with proof, as that story 
was, faint as his hopes were, yet 
his despair had never been able to< 
banish from his mind the image of 
Teresa, her gentle Yirtues, her; 
former love-^^' the. garden- and 
first play* time of 'their youth ."t— 
She, in the mean time, doubting 
the d«ah oi Qoa Alvar j^ wfa^ is 



said to have perished in a stoi*m, < 
within sight of shoi-e, and con- • 
firmed in her dislike to the person 
avd manners of Don Ordonio, in 
opposition to the entreaties of her 
guardian, the father of Alvar and 
of Ordonio, remains faithful to 
her first vows. An interview, 
which soon after take« place be- 
tween Teresa and her lover, \yhen 
he mysteriously relates bis own 
story, but without disclosing his 
person, confirms her in her fears 
and resolutions. Isidore having 
fallen into the hands of thelnqui-- 
sition, Alhadra, his wife, applies 
to Ordonio to protect her husband. 
This renews the intercourse be* 
tween th^m, and Ordonio once 
more consults with Isidore on the- 
subject of his love, who recom- 
mends him to a neighbouring 
wizard. The magician, whom. 
Ordonio seeks in the wild* and 
rocky dell where he conceals him- 
self, proves to be Alvar in disguise. 
He tries indirectly to probe the 
conscience of bis brother, and first 
learns from him the fidelity of Te- 
resa, and the cruel artifice which 
had been practised to impose upon 
his credulity. He at length con« 
sents to assist Ordonio in a pt-oject 
to persuade Teresa of the death of 
Alvar, by invoking his spirit, and 
by giving her pretended preterna- 
tural proofs of the fate of her 
lover. This scene takes place with 
much pomp and ceremony; and 
the invocation, addressed by the 
supposed sorcerer to the spirit of 
Alvar, is replete with poetryiand 
pathos. Donna Teresa rati res 
from this scene, shocked at its im- 
piety) and tlie ceremony is sud- 
denly interrupted by the entrance- 
of the Inquisitors, who have heeih 
informed of the unhallowed prb- 
oeeding. Ordonio con ti ices to* 
justify himself to the chief In<^i«> 



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sitor^ by pretending tbat bis . real The story of iUxs play, of wbtcli • 
object was to obtain a more preg- our reacU^nt will Wable to form ii> 
nant proof against tbe sorcerer, tolerably correct idea from the fore- 
and rbe latter is consigned^ under goiug outline, affords ana^ijnirable 
tbe care of Oi-dooio, to a dungeon opportunity for the display of those 
lU the castle. Ordonio's suspicions powers of natural description ami 
luiviog fixed upon Isidore, as con- sentiment, which Mr. Coleridge is> 
njBcted with Alvar,whoDibe does not. so well known to possesa. The- 
yet know, but of whose designs he is author's name stands high for tbe 
apprehensive, he finds CAit bis Moor- reputation of genius, and he has ^ 
i$h accomplice in his retreat in the very successfully employed tbat ge- 
Alpuxarras, and at once rids him* nius in the production of a drama*' 
sHfof his. fears, andsaorifices bis re- tic work,, which possesses much- 
venge* by treacherously taking bis beauty and interest. In the pro- 
life. — Meanwbik Teresa, struck gress of the fable, the wild and ro- 
with a fancied resemblance ia the mantic scenery of Spain, the man- 
supposed sorcei^er to her lover, and ners and superstitions of tbe age, 
feeling f^r tbe bonoor. of bis situ- are described with a grace of po- 
frtioA, visits the cell of . Alvar, who etic fancy, which, while it brings 
dUbcovsrs himself to her, -Just at tbe objects before us, forwards the 
tbe moment of this afiecting re- developement of the plot, and gives 
cognition, Ordooio enters, with a a peculiar interest to the cb&rac- 
poisoaed goblet, which be presents ters and sentiments of tbe persons 
to his brother, Teresa having re^ represented. The wild harp of 
tired out of sight. A .scene of poetry mingles with, and softens 
high* wrought iuterest now fol- tbe sterner voice of the tragic muse. 
lows between, the tvifo brothers : His images are not less striking, 
Ordooio, alarmed and stung to from tbeir originality, and a pecu- 
madness by Alvar's keen reproach- liar felicity of expression, than 
es, attempts to kill him, but is pre- from tbeir intrinsic merit. The 
wnted by Teresa, who rushes in conduct of the story does not in- 
between then], and discovers that it volve any violent transitions, or 
19 his brother. Ordonio, filled with gross improbabilities. In execut«>- 
remonse and shame, feeling him- ing this part of his task, the author 
self unworthy to live, tries to fail discovers equal judgment and skill, 
oa his own sword. But while The intei^st is kept alive by a suc- 
Alvar and Teresa ave endeavour- cession, o^ situations and events, 
ing to. reconcile him -to life., the sybich call forth the fifaest seiisihi* 
doors of tbe dungeon burst open, lities of the human breast, without 
autl Alhadra, with a band of Mo» shocking the imagination by an ac- 
rescfX!»,- rushing in, revenges tbe cumulation of hopeless and utiHie- 
dealh/ of her husband, by that o£ rited sufGoiing. The language 
liisriimrderer. The Moors hastily throughout is severely chaste jind 
retire atthe approach of Lord V.aU highly polished, and of the sentt- 
dea-aad his followers, sud Don ment .it*is not too much tu say,, 
Alva is restored . tu bis Teresa, that it contains passages which 
aittidst the tear^ nud blessings of diay vie. in eloqaeilce and beauty 
hlt'tfilhev, tv.bo is y/et igntnrant jof with the most kidcessful^e^rts of 
iiiuu death and the.crim^:» of^O'rdow i)ioi)ei:n |)Qetry; t . ' 
w«H . • r »>:.: :. Whileyih©^fEiy tte pay. this* 
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jtt«t tdbttte to tlie merits of tbe 
piece, it must be confessed that the 
author, iu giving latitude to tbe 
luxuriance of bis faucy« particu- 
larly in tbe descriptive parts, too 
often quspemis the drama in its pro- 
gress-r-the plot languishes, and the 
scene becomes tedious. He seems 
to have depended more ou tbe 
strength of bis imagery than on 
dramatic incidents, and tbe play is 
rendered rather monotonous, by a 
perpetual recurrence to the same 
passion, that of Remorse, urhich Is 
exhibited by Ordonio, in his alter- 
nate interviews with every charac- 
ter in the play. In tbe first and 
second acts the author successfully 
touches the feelings of the au-* 
dience^ but the plot is too meagre 
to afibrd a sufficient degree of in- 
terest throughout five long acts, 
and it is so extremely inartificial, 
that the audience, in the earliest 
scenes, anticipated all that is to. 
follow — the punishment of Ordo- 
nio, and this union of tbe lovers. 
It is, however, creditable to tbe li- 
terary talents of the author, that 
the vigour of tbe composition tow- 
c;red above the defects in the con- 
struction of the play, for had not 
the scene of the incantation been 
dexterously managed, tbe whole 
fabric must have fallen to the 
ground. The tragedy, in conse- 
. quence of its extreme length, was 
often in rather a perilous situation ; 
but bere certainly the managers 
were in fault in not calculating 
more accurately tbe time that it 
must have occupied in its represen- 
tation. The first act was nearly an 
hour in.per£ormance,. and must be 
considerably curtailed. The ac- 
Of^unt given by Isidore of. the ca- 
vern, into which he was after- 
wards thrown by Ordonio, was su- 
perfluous } and nothing is more 
tinsome to an audience tbaa to 



hear one character on the stage 
give a long history to another of 
those circumstances of which tba, 
audience have been already in pos« 
session* The play can be profit- 
ably curtailed ntfiriy an hour in re- 
presentation. 

The actors were all perfect, and 
exerted themselves -to the otmo^ 
Elliston had the b^t part iu tbe 
piece, and he laboured hard and 
successfully ^r tbe •author. In hi» 
scehe with Ordonio, n^htre. Jie 
speaks of the. sup|)e«ed murder cf 
Aivar, and oba^rvea m a familiar 
tone, '' and yout killed him/* the: 
effect was such Ha to electrify t he- 
house. Rae, inOrdcmio, aQ<|uttted^ 
himself respaotably, hut the- ehai-^ 
racter is deficient in v«iriety,.aiid'be 
was too often placed in ^ht tamo 
situation. 

In the character of Teresa there 
was nothing to caU forth tbe ta* 
lent^ of Miss Smiths 

Mrs. Glover was admicftble in 
the Moorish Woman*. 

The music of tbe incaatatiott 
was excellent, but much too long. 
The sceaery was extremrly pietu-' 
resque. 

The prologue bad no relation 
whatever either to tbe tragedy or 
tbe bard. Tbe epilogue is Jively,* 
and liiakes several happy hits at 
some of the reigning. follies of tbe 
day. . : . < 

The tragedy was received 
throughout with patience and ap^ 
plause until the dropping of the 
curtain, when some di^appfobation 
was shewn, but a large majority oi 
the audience was decidedly in fa- 
vour of the play being repeated. 



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COVENT-GARDEN. 

On Saturday night, tbe 23d' in-^ 
stant, a new comedy, called ** The 
StudenU of Salamanca/' waa per-? 

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formed for the first time at tliis Angelica, by pretending to deliver 

Theatre. The following is a brief their letters to that lady, which 

outline of the plot : — letters he always opened, and in- 

DRAMATis PERSONS. duced his daughter Pertilia to give 

Don Gasper Mr. Blanchard. f encouraging answers to. Follow- 

•5°"^'*''?'^ ••: }^' Abbott. jng yp g^5 rofituish schemes in the 

Don Chrutoval .Mr. Jones. ° ' • ^ i j i» ^u 

DonDaphnis Mr. Fawcett. present instance, he delivers the 

Mlqiiel Mr. Matthews. letter to Pertilia, at the same time 

9*^^°^ •5?'*' *^?^u°'' making her l>elieve it was really 

Axnuta .••* Mrs. H. Johnston. • ^ • ■ r i r^i • i. i ^ 

Angelica Miss Cooke. intended for her. Christoval, ea* 

FtertiOa .Mrs. C. Kemble. ger in the pursuit of his /air un- 

Scea^^^Sahmanca. known, hastens in the evening to 
The principal occurrences of this Don Gaspares house, and acciden- 
cdmedy arise out of the jealousy of tally hitting upon the same experi- 
Don Alonzo and Don Aminta, the ments used by Alonzo to obtain his 
former of whom is privately mar- private interviews, he is readily ad- 
ried to Donna Angelica, against mitted by Pertilia into Angelica's 
the consent of her father^ Don apartment. Don Daphnis, an an* 
Gaspar, who intended to match tiquated student at Salamanca, and 
her against her inclination. The one of Angelica's admirers, corn- 
letter is on a visit at her cousin's ing to serenade his mistress, disco- 
( Angelica), and havii^ been seen vers the rope ladder by which 
by Don Christoval, an intercourse Christoval ascended, and 8us)iect-> 
takes place between them, to the ing some mischief going forward, 
satisfaction of both parties. Chris- is about to alarm the. house, when 
tDval, in relating his love adven- Miquel, who is on the watch for 
ture to his fellow student (Don hit master's safety, discovering the 
Alonzo), points out to him the intentions of Daphnis, artfully 
house of Don Gaspar, as the dis-" raises the first alarm, and accuses 
covered residence of his unknown Daphnis and his companions with 
inamorata 5 and Christoval, by hi» an intent to murder his master, 
inquiries and communications, who for safety had taken refuge in 
Totises the jealousy of the latter, Angelica's chamber. Alomo com- 
who, to try the fidelity of his wife, ing by at his usual hour, and tm- 
telts his friend her name is Ange- derstanding what has happened, is 
lica (really thinking such to be the confirmed in his suspicions of his 
case), and at the same time con- wife's infidelity, and departs in a 
eeals from him the circumstance of state of desperation. Gaspar hav* 
his private marriage. Christoval, ing reason to suspect Miquel't 
flushed with this- intelligence, story, alarms the whole house in 
writes to Donna Angelica, and search of Christoval, and Aminta, 
eoncerts with bis servant (Miquel) into whose hands Christoval's let- 
the means of getting a letter deli- ter has accidentally fallen, stung 
vered to her. Miquel, who is ac- with jealousy, conceives la bitter 
quainted with Geronimo, the but- hatred against her cousin, and 
ler of Don Gaspar, by a promise of upon her information Angelica is. 
reward prevails upon him to deliver closely confined, but Christoval 
the letter^ This Geronimo is an escapes by tbe means of Pertilia. 
old pander, who has for a long Angelica finds means to .escape 
tioM fleeced the Admirer^ olX^na. fvom ixer coa^atment, and by the 

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•ftcious raterference of Miquel is highly applaud his exertions to 

conveyed to Lis master*^ apartment^ brii^g ^ back the audience to the 

. where .she is discovered by Alonzo> realms of good sense and good 

who had come to deis^and of Chris* taste. Its progress was marked by 

toval an explanation of his con- very little disapprobation 5 as it 

duct. The jeaions husband, more proceeded to its close, it improved 

confirmed in his suspicions^ makes greatly in the favour of the audi- 

known to Don Gaspar bis secret eAce; and, as a wh<4e, it was 

nuptials, and agrees to an act of greeted by nearly unanimous ap- 

se])aration from her. Amiiita hav- plause, when its second representa- 

iiig, from circumstances, disco- tion was announced, 

vered that her jealousy was ground- The actors played up to their 

less, concerts means with Cbristo* parts in a very admirable style.-*» 

val to make reparation for the mis- Mrs. H. Johnston, Mrs. C. Kem- 

chief she has occasioned, and they ble. Miss Cooke, Matthews, Jones» 

succeed, by artifice, in obtainhig Blanchard, Fawcett, Abbott, and 

Don Gaspar*s consent to the union, indeed all who had any share in it, 

which has already taken place, did most ample justice to the con- 

Alonzo, convinced bis SQspicions of ceptions of the author. It would 

Angelica's hononr are groundless, perhaps be difficult to point out a 

is restored to happiness; and finer piece of acting than Mat<* 

A mi nta gives her hand to Christ o- thews* falling asleep upon the 

val. stage; his efforts to resist the ap« 

This is a production far above the proaches of sleep, his drowsy tones, 

general run of modern dramas ; and the wanderings of his . mind 

and, taken as a whole, bears the whilst dosing, were inimitable. . 

genuine impress of genius. The The deservedly favourable inan<» 

plot is complicated, but it is skil- ner in which this comedy has l>e«a 

fully unravelled, and an interest is ' received, will, we trust, stimulate 

. excited, which is well kept up, Mr. Jameson to further effbrts.^— 
even to the last scene. The Ian- Drawing from his . own original 
guage is sprightly and characte- stores, and skilfully arranging what 
ristic^ and the thoughts are natu- he thus derives, with the aid of that 
rally inteiwoven with the business knowledge of stage effect which he 
of the piece. In a few instances evidently possesses, we may confi- 
they were rather tame, and one or dently anticipate' much to gratify 
two of the incidents encroached and amuse the public, in the true 
upon the dominions of broad farce 5 sense of these words, as attached 
but the dramatic skill of the au- to the operations of the mind^ and 
thor wds rendered apparent, by the not to the mere gratifications of 
manner in which he wrought up the eye or the ear. There is much 
tb» denouenient, and in the busy in this comedy to applaud, very lit- 
sc^nes Which led to it. We hail tie to disapprove of, and scarcely 
this Comedy as at least some re- any part of it that can be absolute- 
turn . to the course of the legi- ly condemned. It combines the 

' tiniate drama, which has been so essence of legitimate drama with 

long sacrificed to spectacle and good taste and skilful manage* 

buffoonery. The author of it is ment, and with those indisputable 

• Mr. Jameson, whom we sincerely marks of genius which must ever 

congratukteupou his success, and interest a British audience. 

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FE^'ST OF mUT. 



'^UE fate Duke of Devonshire, 

who useri to leave Brookes*s rc- 

'giilaify, at a very late hour, in 

passing l)y the stall of a cobler, at 
Mhe end' of Jermvn- street, in his 

way homte, always wished the cob-. 
•ter k -^'gb'od night;'* which the 

cdbler as' regularly returned hy 

tt^shinghis Grace " ^ good morn- 
• hig !** No watch could have been 
"dferiserf to tnake these two keep 
•time' with each other. 



• hifitnHne Asiodations.-^^^'eXk" 
' ittg itrto th6 road, oii certain Whlt- 
•SKin tide holidays, with one of my 

• ymmger "datrghtcTs, but just com- 
•iDg forward into society, an<l yet 

unvettfed in its language and habits, 
" *jre bvettot)k a large tfrove of cows. 
'^ Set, see, father," sairl the chiM, 

• *• whtit a Ihreaking'Up (/f cows !" 
-iProtetsdi ng, vre met a regiment of 

toldief^ ; tttts6 strongly attracted 
■Imrath?BtTOb, and ^he exclaimed, 
' ** *Oh ! fatter-^ wha( a number of 
' brotbet^ !'* Tak!ng it for granted 
'they mtrst have been such, from the 

• tinffiaTtoity of their dress. Poor 
innocent thing, she little thought 
bow opposite their's was, to a bro- 
theily tiling ! . 



conveniences and vexations she e>t- 
perienced on her arrival, declared, 
when next she visited the place, 
she wOuld " come a. day before 
hand, and prepare for her own re- 
ception/* 

A Manager at a certain The- 
atre, having occasion to call on his 
attorney the morning prior ,to the 
representation of a favourite piece, 
very politely presented him with 
a box order, requesting his attend- 
ance in the evening to see the piece 
performed. The Gentleman of the 
Law readily accepted the order, 
telling the Manager he might rely 
on his attendance. The Manager, 
shortly after this, calling for bis ac- 
count, to his great astonishment, 
on looking over it, saw the follow- 
ing : — " Three hours and a half's 
' attendance at the Theatre, l3sAd.V' 



•4*. 



An English Bull — ^Tlie follow- 

* ing fact will prove, that the exclu- 
' rfve rfghft of the Irish .to make 

* Btdls, (like many of the other 
■ rights of that nnfortunate people) 

has not Veen most grossly violated. 

* Mtss H***«^, ftn English lady, 
complaining to a friend at Tun- 
bridje WeHs, of the numerous in- 



A TEW weeks since, as a party 
of seamen were employed on the 
Jetty Head, in Plymouth Dock- 
yard, a stranger approached, and, 
pointing to the ships in Hamoaze, 
asked one of the party, an Irish- 
man, which was the Tickler gau- 
hrig ?— " By St. Patrick," retort- 
ed the honest Hibernian, " you 
need not be under any mistake 
about that — by G — , they are all 
Ticklers r 



An Irish watchman was charged 

lately before the Magistrates at 

Marlborough-stieet, with beating 

one of his prisoner^; with a stick. 

He immediately offered to take hi< 

oath 



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xss^ 



^tb, that be had mthing io his 
hand but his^^. 

The Marquis of Wellingtojr, on 
giving orders for a Battalion to 
attempt a dangerous enterprise; 
viz. storming one of the enemy's 
^orics, complimented the Com- 
mlanding 'Otiicer by saying his Re- 
giment vra9 the fifit in this world. 
*• Yes," replied the Officer leading 
pn his men, ** and before your 
Lordship*s orders are ^nally exe-* 
cuted, it will most probably be the 
first in the next world !" 

Vtility of Skill in Orthography. 
«— Sonie tim^ ago, an innkeeper m 
a country town ^rote to his friend 
in Dublin, requesting him to send 
him two goocl chaises. The gen- 
tleman replied^ that he found they 
were then dear, and thsit be thought 
one migbt suffice. A second let- 
rer was received^ in which it ^as 
stated that the Assizes were at 
band» that there would be $ grea{ 
r^n at bis house, and that he 
would want two go^d- atid large 
chaises. According to hk on)ers, 
twp ppst*cbai$es were sent. When 
ihey arrived at bis^door he.re^'u^ed 
to receive them ; an altercation 
of codrsetook place between him 
and the person who brougjjt them* 
-—Fortunately the gentleman who 
bad purcbased them had arrived 
in the country; he immediately 
M'ent arui remonstrated with his 
friend the innkeeper, on his re- 
fusal to receive the post-chaises. 
** Sir," said the innkeeper, " I 
ordered no chaises ; I ordered 
them not ; I requested you to send 
me two cheeses, and what the 
d— *1 have I to do with the^ big 
carriages? keep them' yourself." 
The gentleman immediately drew 
the two letters out of his pocket, 
.titd put them into the hands of the 
. Vo«M JCU.— I^o. 244. 



innkeeper's son, with .ft request 
tkat be would read th^ contents, 
'father," said tb|^ son, " the 
word is written very plain, chaises. 
You must keep your carriages^ 
good father." 

An Irishman beuigasked, a few; 
days since, to take a mutton chop 
with a friend, declined the invita'« 
tiop, faying, " tb^t he bad ate i^oi 
much mutton of late^ he was 
ashamed to look a sheep in thti 
face, 

* 

A POOR man lately applied to a 
charitable lady, to procure bis ad« 
mission to an hospital. She said» 
she subscribed only to tbe Lyinf-'U$ 
Hospital. — *' That is the vefytbing^j 
Madam," said be^ " for I have 
been so long lying (mt, that I^npw 
want to lie ia." 



An Irishman^ bearing of .tht 
unfortunate predicament of Bona« 
parte and bis army* said, they 
were reduced to the situatibi) of 
crabs — they could neither get backr 
ward or forward, aijd muf t^ there- 
fore, bury themselves. 

. On the first day of Term, some 
of the depredators who n*equent 
tbe Courts, thought fit to carry off 
a Serjeant's robe and a coat from 
tbe Common Plea^. When tho 
theft was discovered, a gentleman 
enquired if the Serjeant and his 
wig were safe?" ** Yes," replied 
the informant, *' they have only 
non-suifed him." 



Anecdote of Lobd North.— 
It is not a fact of historical re« 
cord, that the famous Major Bany 
and Lord North were tbe strong- 
,est«possible Parliamentary enemies, 
the former never losing an oppor^ 
tunity of most rancorously attack* 

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hig " the able but unfortunate 
Wiiiister," as North has been em- 
phatically and truly termed. It 
may not also be known that North 
^as **• the heist- humoured man" 
breathing, and that nothing could 
disturb tjie evenness of his temper ; 
while Barry was petulant and ir- 
i^itable to the last degree. While 
fn the fulness of senatorial glory, 
<hey both became Hind. On a 
s'ubseciueut occasion. North made 
fhe happiest use" of this circum- 
stance in the course of a veiT ir- 
jtitable debate' in the Coninions : 
Bany had teen attacking the Mi- 
fiister North in a most pointed, 
rancorous, and apparently success- 
ftil manner, when thc' latter com- 
menced his reply to tbis effect :— 
'* Mr. Speaker— 1 have been at- 
tacked in the most virnlent style 
by a gentleman opposite, to whom 
fhe llouse always listens \yith be- 
fcohiing deference 5 and yet, not- 
withstanding all the virulence of 
that speech, I will venture to say, 
thai there are not two men in his 
Mnjesty's dominions who would 
be happier to sue one another than 
we should be!" 



Two thin Gentlemen comparing 
notes on' the flimsy state of their 
bodies, one of them said, that a 
jierson he knew was as thin as them 
both put together. 

KPIGRAM. 
Inscribed aft the Looking Glass of a «e?e- 
' ' • brated Impure, 

IN me, false Thais, as you pass. 

Your likeness'inay be seen ; 
M'ithuut'^] tinsel, paint, «na giass» 
. AiIMeucury wiUdn I 

Mercutio. 



the waiter, *'by the greatness of 
our draught we estimate our "prO" 

fits r 



THJB IRISH SCHOOLMASTER, 
Or, how to spell see. 



With bushy bob and snuff-bcgrimcd 

xtosc. 
Rusty b)ack coat and pen behind his 

car; 
Terence Malone in majesty arose, 

The birchen object of respect and fear I 
His cheeks were pimpled and his eyes 

inclined, 
Wiih all their scrcngtb, and s»ul» and 

mind, . 
To join their brains somewhere about 
The tip of Terry's snubby snout ; 
In sbort, by all the eiils 'twas more than 

hinted, ^ 
That Mister Terence squinted— 
" Come here Tom Fogarly, you little 

brat. 
So, you have been playing in thc 

ditches, 
And toie your Sunday pair of 

breeches ! 
I hope you have your lesson pat. 
S double £->what spells S double Eel — 
Don't be star-gazing so— mind what I 

say; 
S double £, you little stupid fool. 
Upon my consciencei you disgrace my 

school ! 
S double E, you ass! — What do / do 
When I raise my eyes and look, a^ 

you ?— 
You'll say it now, or else the devil'^ 

m t. 
" Pfhy, Sir, you squint,* 



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On one of the cold days lately, 

'a gentleman sitting in rf tavern 

complained to the waiter of a gr^at 

'draught in the room—-" Sir,!* said 



Advertisement Extraordinary. — 
Lost or stVayed, from the French 
pack, a remarkal)ly fast blood- 
hound, vnth a savage countenance, 
sharp nose, and short bkck hair, 
of the true Corsican vermin breed: 
has never been seen but leering 
abotit at a distance since the whole 
jjack were dead run at Smolensko^. 
— He answers to the name of Km- 
PEKOR Nap. — Whoever will bring 
the said hound, dead or aliire, to 
Coimt Piatoff, Master of the Cwf* 
sack Hunt, shall bt handsomely r<s 
warded. SPVRT^ 



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SPORTIJVG IJVTMLIjIGUIJVCE. 



TT is with much regret that we on Tuesday, the 26th of January, 

aijnaunce the breaking up of the on the Asbford road, betwixt Ca(^» 

establishment of his Majesty's ha- tain Swaue's jj^rey mare, and a btiy 

Tiers at Windsor. The King^ in horse belonging to Mr. Riddle, of 

the enjoyment of his health, re- Orchard-street, for a wager of 

ceived particular gratification from 200gs. The distance to be |>er« 

the amusement they afforded bini^ formed was nine miles. The niare 

and since bis Majesty's illness, the took the lead, at a surprising rate. 

Gentlemen of the neighbourhood but broke in going the firjst mile» 

have regularly continued to ,par~ and was pulled round, agreeable 

take of the sport, which has S0 to articles, by which the hoi's^ 

long been attached to the regal gained about fifty yards. Th< 

establishment. jnare lecovered her ground, alid 

' trotted neck and neck with the 

The Members of White's Sub- horse, from, the six miles to tliQr 
script ion Club, one of the ipost fa- eight and a half, when ibe horsQ 
shiouable in St. James's-street, shot a-bead, and won the match by 
were lately placed in an unpleasant ai)out. two lengths, and in thirty- 
situation, the hcmse being shut up two minutes, 
by bankruptcy. We understand there " ■■ 
were upwards of four hundrcil The annual KIngscote Race 
members, at an annual subscrip Ball, at Hunters* Hall, on Tucsf 
tion of twelve guineas. day, the Ipth instant, was nume- 
'■ ■ jously and fashionably attended. — 

A NEW species of handicap, by Amongst the conifYany present^ 

classes, has lately been establtshed were, his Grace the Duke of Beau- 

at Newmarket, which promises fort, Lord and Lady Ducie, Lady 

much sport to the Members of the De Clifford, Captain and Lady T, 

Turf. Hale, Sir B. Wra. Guise, Sir H* 

• Lippincott, Colonel Kingscote, 

The Turf confederacy, between &c. &c. — ^The most sedulous atten- 

the Lords Foley and Kinnaird, has tion was paid to the comfort and 

been dissolved, and Gazetted id acconimodatioo of the compauy* 

the Journals of the Jockey Club, by the steward, N. W. Peach, £sq. 

by n^utual consent* At one o'clock they sat down to an 

— i elegant supper, compiising eveiy 

Lord Strathmore's bay colt, out delicacy of the season. 

of Beatrice, that was. second for . ■* 

the St. Leger, is sold to Lord A few days since, as Lord Clin- 

Foley. — And Mr. J. Painter has ton and a party of friends were tak- 

purchased Lord Oxford's Tinker ing the, diversion of shooting at 

Barnes, by Governor. Colonel Poyntz's, Cawding Lodge, 

■ ' Sussex, his Lordship being out of 

^/V. TAOTTiNG match took place the line^ and too forward^ from th« 

B b 2 irregu* 



m 



THE srOiltlNiJ Maoazinb. 



irregularity of the groand was not 
Mrceiv^ ; abare^ettiug up in the 
liot of lus lordship, two of the 
gentlemen 6iYd, the shot of whose 
guns passed into his leg^ his left 
knee, and hip ; fortunately the 
fdrce of the shot was broken by 
sttiking the ground first, or the ac- 
cident might have poved very s^«> 
riotis. The muscular part of the leg 
and tendons were much affected ; 
several of the sliot were extracted 
hy Mr. Surgeon Bumall, and his 
liordsbip is now, we beltevie, in a 
forward state of recovery. 

CotONfeL Thornton, of sport-^ 
ing notoriety, it is said, has esta- 
blished a place which he calls 
" Sportsman's Lodge," near DuU 
v*erton, in Somerset&ire : thus dis- 
tant front all his former residen* 
cies, and verifying the old song—* 

Kemote from cities, lived a Swain, 
Who hunted in a gallant strain 

All day, till he was weary : 
And tired, ^'etuming to his table, 
lie took his glass while he was able. 

And then— ^he sought his dearey ! 

Lord Kivers's Wiltshire Cours- 
ing Meeting, commenced on Tu^- 
day, the 20th instant; but after a 
few matches, it was of necessity 
adjourned, by the severity of the 
frost, which set in that day. 

Wb understand tbe Newmarket 
Coursing Mt»eting is to commHice 
on the Idst Monday in every No- 
wmber, and to course the whole 
enstirng week.— Tlie late Meeting 
had some new Members, and the 
assemblage of greyhounds was the 
greatest ever "known. What may 
sippear singular is, that the Meet-, 
iiigs for Coursing in the South o!F 
Kngland increase and grow more 
numerous every year, wbilein the 
Ivlorth they ap|»car losing* their in- 
terest, 'aud tt-lt on the decHue.<-« 



Captain Wyatt had the greatest 
number of dogs, and was . on tbe 
wliole the greatest winner } biUL 
some Members thought tbe eyes of 
the umpire were not so accurate as 
usual. ^ 



Bbr&shirb CouasiKG.- 



JOa 



Tuesday, the 19th ot this month/ 
the follow itig" matches were run by 
greyhounds tor a silver cup, at tb<i 
£arl of Carnarvon s. Beacon- Hilt; 
near Newbury : 

Mr. Isherwood's Industry, l)ea!t 
Mr. Ramsbottom*s Rose. 

Col. Stead's (Lord Rivets's Rous) " 
beat Mr. Hunt's Goldfinch. 

Mr. Bacon*s Moses, beat Mn 
Greig's Peter. 

Mr. Davis's Hal, beat Mr. D. 
Comton's Tinker. 

Mr. Good lake's Gamecoch, be^^t 
Mr. Sheppery's Roll a; 

Mr. Joues*s Jet, beat Mr. Slo^ 
cock's Sapling. 

Lord Rivers*s Rarity, beat' Mir. 
Comton's Brewer. 

Mr. Herbert's DaFsy, beat MV. 
Dunford's Driver. ' 

Col. Stead' s(Lord Rivers's Rous) 
beat Mr. Ishefrwood's Indnstry. 

Mr. Bacon's Moses, beat M^. 
Davis's Hal. 

Mr. Goodlake's Gamecock, beat 
Mr. Sheppery's Rolla. 

Lord Rivers's Rarity, beat Mr. 
Herbert's Daisy. 

Col . Stetfd's ( Lord Ri^rers's Rous) 
beat Mr. Bacon's Moses. 

Lord Rivers's Rfrrity, beat M^. 
Goodlake's Gamecock. 

Colonel Stead's (Lord Rivers's) 
Rouse drawn. 

Lord Riversj's Rarity won the 
Cup. 

r* 

In the Duke of Rutland's h»nf, 
lately, Mr. Roljert Hot1:rson, ot' 
Kirk by UiMler\vood,*r<Mle bis l»rown 
horse Flitboni, over ■» ^lefTge and 

ditch 



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^tch eleven yatds wide, ih tbe pa« 
thb of Newton, near Palkingham, 
tn t%e presente of several gentku 
lnen> who ordered the leap to foe 
iiie«i^dred, from beat to bettt, fbfr 
their satisfaction. 



Sforting Imcidrvt.*-^A ftn 
^ay$ sioce, a party of gentletnea 
were coursing in a field near the 
village of GoiilCeby, Lincolnshire^ 
and tbe^ hare was hard pressed by 
the dogs (the property of F. Co- 
cheifer, £sq.) when coming to alA 
old hedge, they suddenly lost her> 
and gave up the pu]*suic. . A lad in 
the employ of Mr. C. shortly after 
passed that way with a terrier, an<l 
observed tbe dog stop and bark at 
tbe foot of an.old tree, but took no 
liirther notice, and went on bis 
business. Returning, however, the 
same way, about half an hour af- 
ter, he found the dog in the same 
place, and was by this i«duceH t^ 
examine the tree, wbieh,'a9 It Was 
lioHow, he^ conceived harboured 
w>tae vermin in the trunk." Aft«r 
marching without effect for some 
<i)ile,'be looked upwards, and dis- 
covered something peeping out 
about "a yard from tbe ground j he 
then lifted up bis dog, who brought 
'i(own by the binder ' parts a tine 
bare ; the same, it is not ilonbted, 
that was lost at that hedge by the 
yportsmen. Whatrenderstbis eir- 
cuinstance^more worthy of remark 
is, that several greybiMuids bad 
Tun, and ail invariably lost their 
object at this hedge. 
II ■ II 

Capital Fox Chasb -;»ln addt* 
tion ta tbe good «port the fox 
hounds, kept by Mr. St. Jolin, have 
had tbis season, they, on Monday 
tbe lltb, fmmd a fox in Beenbam 
High Wood, and went off by 
Lord Falmouth*s Channel Wood, 
Carviii*s Wood^ over theCommoa 



lo 'Blacklandsy tnnitd to tb« tight 
through Holly Woiid^ hy S(jckl««> 
bury, over the open -to Yat tendon, 
iof AoWeott ; here he was beaded 
to Taylor^s Furae and il«iinitagi^, 
skiKed tbe Forest, and Fence 
Wood, to Cold Ash Cotnoion, by 
tbe Fir Trees, anc^ o^^rtbe Indot- 
suVes, leaving the isrange W^odtd 
tbe Left; bci« he nwidea titru^ 
through tbe small coverts ernd in**, 
•elosui^esto Hamstead Norrls, 0OWII 
Wood, Etrliog Park, Courage and 
6Kaw Woods to DonnlngtoB,Siiel»- 
ttiore Coomion ami Bagwor, -(heye 
they begim to rnn f6r bim) t* 
Honey liottom, where they killeti 
him in a cottage garden, after a 
most excellent and gaUsftit chasi^ 
of three hours. — ^Tbis is one of tbe 
best chases everrnn in Berkshire 5 
the excellent bunting at times dis*' 
played by the hounds, tbe^obasing 
over the open, and pressing the fox 
tbmngh the coverts, &c. over so 
great and dSIGeuit an extent of 
country, (full tbivty miles) afforded 
tbe greatest pleasure and sattsfac- 
tiiln to a large iield of sportsmen. 

0« Friday, the 6th, the bounds 
belonging to T. Alder and A. Greg- 
son, £sqrs. Inmted -from Duddoe, 
near Berwick-^afirer Swo very 
sharp rnn^, and killing each time, 
they foond a third hare, which dis- 
daining tbe doubles and shifts usual 
to her speoies, made straight for 
Twixell, and crossed tbie Rive> TiH, 
at one 1^ tbe widest and deepest 
points^ then 'Over the bills to Pa* 
linsburn, back again, re-crossed 
the Tin, and was killed near Grin- 
don. It was dilieult which most 
to admits, the gallantry of tbe 
bare, or tbe spirit and steadiness 
shown by tbe bounds— who never 
came to a check, or had a view un- 
til the death. The run lasted am 
bour and a quarter, -and tbe cMs- 

tance 



T 



jgO THE SPORTING MAGAZINE: 

tance miiy be computed art sixte^a bet\yixt two bhot» from Bucks ami 

miles at the lens t. two from Oxon^ (Me^rs. Jaoiet 

aud Hei)d4:r4on from the former 

At the Pytcbley Hunt Race»> coiuUy, and Messrs. Kbodes and 

ou Wedoeiday, March 17, a Sil- Pigeou from the latter), for lOOgs. 

ver Cup, of the value of 50gs. aside, at twelve hirds each, from 

ivill be given by the Members of a trap at twenty-one yards, and uu- 

the Hunt, to be run for by horses limited charge. 

not thorough bred, which have Bird*. 

never won, awl which are, b<mu ^^^' "^'"derson killed II 

Jide, the property of farmers re- ^^''' J*^"*^^ ^Q 

tiding within the country hunted 

by the Fytchley Hounds, or usually ^ ^ 

liunting with them. To carry Mr. Rhodes killed rz 

13st. each, and to be rode by JSlr. Pigeon H 

farmers^ Heats twice round the — 

course. The horses are to be 20 

named to the clerk of the course Only one bird escaped, and tbaC 

at Northampton, on or before the was the last shot of Mr. Ilcnder? 

i^ of March. son ; the rest all fell out of bounds, 

■ and two of Mr. Pigeon's had not 

A NOVBL species oi anuiseroent gone five yards over the distance. 

took place in the Hundred House ^ 

Meadow, Witley, on Tuesday, tlie PEDESTBiANisM.-— A pe<lestrlaa 

5th instant *, Ave wild ral)bits wei% match was made ashore time since, 

singly turned off at an assigned for Carter, the pugilist, to luo 

4listancc, liefore a dog fox, trained three amateur commoners two 

by and in the possession of Mr. miles, to give the first five bun^ 

Tearne, of Stockton, Worcester- <lred yards, the second six hunr 

shire, and after an excellent course dred, aud the third seven hundred. 

of H)>out 400 yards, were sevemlly The two latter paid forfeit, and 

killed hy reyuai'd. Car-tcr started with the five hun- 

■ dreil yards adversary on Monday., 

Os Tuesday, the 5t\\ instant, a the 4th of January. Betting was 
gentienian . of Lewes shot at a five to four on Carter, who had 
pheasant, which he killed, and tlie engaged in other bets to perform 
l»ifd falling close to a wood cutter, the first (piarter of a mile in one 
at work hai'd by, the man was as- minute and three seconds, and in 
tonisbed at the distance between four seconds, and in eight seconds, 
the spot w hereon the pheasant fell and to drink a pint of wine i^t 
ami the gunner, which iminced the starting. He did the 4uarter of a 
wocNlman to ascertain the distance, mile in a minute and three seconds, 
wbirli rather exceeded .^ibtrteei^rot/^' with much dilfiuulty. He con- 
cur/ a half I The gun whs a t\oH- tinned the next tpmrter of a mile 
lile bnrelled one, of .small bore, and at a blow rate, but be made (day 
only two feet eight iocbes long. afterwards and passed his ad^-ep- 
sary within two. hundred yards of 

A SPOKTING pigeon match took the end of the races <he latter 

place on Saturday, the i^th of this having been beat in the last fpiarter 

mouth, on Stoke. Common, .Heits, of aiuiie. . Carter won by nineteen 

yards. 



THE SPOIITING MAGAZINK I9 1 

y^mlsv- and performed diie. distance . Oh Tbtirsclay, the 21 st< instant^ 

m eie^enr minutes two seconds.. Mr. Jameson, a celebrat^fi peclet* 

- An extraoriiinaiy pedestrian, triau^ uudertouk for a: wager o£ 

fivribrKiaiic&y whicU outiivais mo*- 50gs. to go ten nailes on the Bs^th. 

item pedescrianiiynt, even the teats raudju an. hour> (being the same? 

of iJeinsivortli of liancashine,. Ihei as the preceding match), but h«: 

celebrated Ab* Wood, or the still lost by halt" a mile, 

more renowned Beal of Yorkshire, ' ■ 

took place on Monday, the I Stir , A Labourer,, of Canterbury »i 

lathis month, on Sanbury Conw oamed Parsons, undei to<ik one d4fty 

mon, tor a stake of* 200gs. The this niontb, to cairy asack^of jno^ 

pedestrian had engaged to perform tatoes, weighing I99 pounds 

the extraordinary task of ten miles, fwhich he was to haye for his jtrou- 

m one hour., ile was unknown ia ble), fiom the Star public- lu>uae^ 

London, but be had performed at Hardres, to the Town of Dover 

domc matches in the neighbour* public*- bouse, Canterbury, in foui$ 

hood of Margate, which brougbt hours, the distance of live mile»y 

him into notice. He is a butcher which he performed in three hour* 

at Margate. The pedetitrian did and three ij^uarters. 

the first, two miles in eleven mi- ?> 

nutes and a half, « and be continued At the late Norfolk, Sessioai^ 

at a steady winning pace until he Edward Jenney appealed to a cou- 

ftnished tive miles in iialf a minute vtctiou of Magistrates under Mr. 

within the half hour.. During the Jodi^ell's Act, fur being found with 

hitter part of the race he gave some others poaching in a vvood, at 

extraordinary springs, and main- Scoulton, in Norfolk, belonging to 

tained speed; at intervals, for half Lord Abergav«iuiy, at three o'clock 

a mile, which beat the horses. He oa the morning of the IQth of 

performed tiie whole distance m November last.«*-Mr. Cooper oh- 

tif £y seconds under the hour ; and jected to the convietion in point of 

vrhat is astDnisbiug, iie never funi-> form, upon the ground tbatby the 

€d M dmir, and was in as good Vagrant Act, the commitment 

wind as' when he started. After should be to the House of Ck^rrec* 

the race h^ cballenged any runner tion till the Sessions, and not to the 

on the ground, for five or. cen miles. 9ommon gaol, as in the present 

This astonishing- pedestrian is now case. This objection was over- 

in training at the rubbing-boHse, luled, but upon the evidence of Sir 

Kpsom Downs, for. a most won- W'm. Clayton's game-keeper, who 

.deifui undertaking;' 100 to 20 had lo^lged the information, it ajK 

.iiaving been betted' that he does pea red that the prisoner Jenney bad 

iiof 5)erf(>rm a mile in four minutes nut been present before the Magis-* 

atulahalf.; The ground fixed on, t rates at the time the gamekeeper 

is iiism Islington to the City Road, made the charge 9f?ainst him» nor 

Such a performauce is not, ivebe- at any subsequent time before the 

lieve, on the recorrl of [^eiiestrian conviction -, the requisites oi the 

feats. This wonderful man is said Act therefore not having been 

«a V) 10 -excel it) a- race of twenty- complied with, the coDvictiob* was 

jHum hours. Betting is two - and . quashed, 

three to one against his new un- ■ ' ■ 

^j:t^kii)g^ WiX.LiAM Wogdhouse^ of Aldon, 

• ' in 



193 THE SPORTING MAGAZHflS. 

• 

iothe paHlli of Stokesay> Sftio]), nabe of wMgeete flying. H/»fil 

cnqpetiter, (kaown by the name of up from his bed, and went to tW 

SUly Sly), t«nant to Richard Lys^* duor, which, wliea oq»eiied» dit- 

t«r> £sq. of Rowton Castle, was playedtlie light of the firei^ towardft 

eoBVtcted on the 9th iuslant, be** which ocie of a flock of wildswaot 

lore Edward Rogers, Esci. of Wig* flew, feU down^ stonaed by flyhig 

raore, in the county of Hereford, against a waggon whieh stood he- 

in the mitigated penalty of lOl. for forethe door. It was ioamediately 

using snares for the deitriKtion of oaught. Mr« AUea then returned 

game upon a Sunday, and lias paid to his bed, hut still thinking he 

tb« said penalty* neard the noise t>f more, arose 

" ' • agaiB,auddi»coTened that they had 

Ov( Tuesday, the 'iSth nit. Ben- alighted in hit neighbour's fields. 

jamin Wiggins, William Lanca* AsststaBce was called, and a Ian- 

shire, and George PhipfHs,^ were tern obtained, when they went out, 

iiommitted Vo Oxford gaol, charged and the birds, four in number, im- 

with feloniously killing a falk>w mediately flew towards the light oi 

deer, in an Inclosed part of Which- the lantern, and were easily caught. 

wood forest, where deer are usually There arctwoold ones, which are 

kept. — ^And on Saturday, the 16th entirely white, except the bills and 

instant, John Wiggins, Samuel legs, which are black; tbe three 

Watts, and Joseph Wright, were young ones are of a light ash co^ 

ifommitt^d to the same gaol, for lour, and the bills ted, with the 

one year, oharged with having un- edges ash^coloured. Their feet 

lawfldly in their possession one are very large. The largest of the 

fallow deer. * white ones, which is supposed to 

■ M .I be the male, weighs twenty-seven 

A SHoai? time since, fottrteen pounds, and measures nine <feet 

brace of fine partridges, all alive across the wings, when extendedi 

and strong, were taken up at sea, and five ieet from the end erf the 

iry a fishing boatoflSkerringham) bill to the end of the taiL They 

when the lioat apiu'oached them difter o»ly from the English w^ 

they madie no-efl'orttoe^ape. swans, by not having the yellow 

■ ' wax, or excrescence, on the bead 

* WttD "Swans. — The ^following above the bill." 
avtide is extracted frt>m a paper 



* * » 'i 



printed in tbe StaCe of Verjtoonr, Lately died, at his house at La« 

'North Ameriea :-^Extnict of a nelway, near Usk, Monmouth- 

^]>tter frsm Francis L. Harrison, shire, at a very advanced age, Mr. 

Bsq. of ]\f alone, N. Y. dated Nov. Henry Harris -, attached to the 

15, ldl2:— "On tbe night of the sports <of the field, his '' Ftev 

'i9tb or 9th instant, a Mr. Allen, Judlioo P* will long be remembered 

Irving at Chfateaugay, was disturb- by tbe Solisof the Chase, in that 

'ed, hy what he sup^iosed to be the ^art of the country* 



BKRA-rvM.-^Tiie plate of H« W. Bunbnry, Bsq. )^«a In oar last Number, wai 
engraved by H. R. CooK£,froma Mitfeiagbf Lawkkncs; aadfiotengfavedby S0Btt» 
from a jpaintio^by Eeyndds, ag therein stated by aoiittike. 

POETRY, 



THE SPORTING MAGAZINE; 



19^ 



POETRY. 



THE HIGH COURT OF DIANA. 



THE CORSICAN FOX. 
A new Hunting Song* 



MR. EDITOR, 



poi 






R the commencement of the 
NEW YEA^, which all true sports- 
men hope may be better than the two 
months of the last, I send you the fol- 
lowing N^w Hunting Song, which I 
*' gite and bequeath'* to any musical 
amateur, to set and sing in all the ^ood 
kuntiTtg halls of the United Kingdom. 

VENATGR. 



UARK forward ! my bpys, in this gay 
hunting season. 
Which to foxes gives death, and to 
fancy gives birth ; 
The madness of fox-hunting now has its 
reason, 
For we've run that old fox, Bonaparte, 
to earth. 

Did you see how hetskulk'd thro' the 
snow and the busbes> 
(Of such foxes, O, may there be al- 
ways a dearth !) 
A rough Russian fox-hound now hard at 
his brush is, 
And in ^oes that fox, Bonaparte, to 
earth. 

Some thought be was game, but he turns 
out'agarron, 
And his skin is the whole that the 
vermin is worth ; 
A creature like this no true hounsd would 
make war on , 
That can't keep above ground^ but runs 
to his earth. 

Then," O I may some terrier we can con- 
fide in, • 
- Vol. XLl.— .No. 244. 



Now s6ize him and tear oat his viU 
lainous breath ; 
For 'twere hard, after all our strong leaps 
and hard riding, 
One sportsman should fail being-^in 
at the death. 



PROLOGUE 

To the new Comedy of " Thb Studbnts 
OF Salamanca." 



JJARD is his task who undertakes to 

please. 
Passion to rouse, and temper to appease ; 
With chemic power dissolve tach varied 

toiie. 
And melt a thousand huniours into one! 
Each has a taste — a prejudice to lull. 
Some gay, some grave, some witty^ and 

some dull : 
How then can Poets ever hope to please 
At once $j^h adverse sentiments as 

thfese ? 
By painting Nature is the cry around : 
But let me ask — (Vhere's Nature to Je 

found f 
Close veiled with art, no feature she dis- 
closes, 
Men's characters are stuccoed like theic 

houses. 
So delicattUy nice^^so rigid grown. 
In this pure age no naked hearts are 

shewn. 
The forest race of man, which lived of 

yore. 
Reclaimed fromNature, now is seen no 

more ; 
^rt's livery o'er all a sameness throws. 
And character in class not person flows* 
Should we try fiction, rule and rule ia 

brought 
To prune the wild exuberance of thought; 

C c Back 



194 THS SPORTING MAGAZINE. 

Each plies the shears to shape the quick- Allen-a-Dale was ne*er belted a Knight, 

set waste, Tho' bis spear be as sharp and his blade 
And like a rural cit conceives it taste. be as bright : 

O'er Fancy's wilds all claim a right to AlIen-a-Dale is no Baron or Lord, 

sway, Yet twenty tall Yeomen will draw at his 
And, as the humour leads, mark out a wurd ; 

way. And the best of our Nobles his bonnet 
The tree of knowledge every critic clips, will vail. 

And propagates new saplipgs with (he Who at Rere-cross or Stanemore meets 

slips : Ailen-a-Dale. 

Hanged into groves an avenue they 

fram«U* AUen-a-Dale to his wooiniris come, 

And point it as the surest road to feme. The mother she asked of his house and 
Some on this measured railway move and ^*'s home : ... 

find " Though the castle of Richmond stand 

Unfetter 'd genius leaves them for be- fair on the hill, 

hind ; " My Hall," quoth bold Allen, " stands 

Boldly he urges on, flies o'er each gallanter still ; 

mound, ** "Tis the blue vault of Heaven, with 

And dears the critics* hedges at a boond. «« crescent so pale, 

*' And with all its bright spangles '. said 

Tornight our bard — but no, I will not Allen-a-Dale. 



sue. 



You're English judges, and will judge as The father was steel, and the mother was 

true ; stone ; 

Nor more I'll say to temper your decrees. They lifted the latch, and they bade him 
Than that his 'task is hard who tries to begone; 

* Mease. ^^^ loud, on the morrow, their wail and 

their cry ! 
p He had laughed on the lass with his 

bonny black eye, 
And she fled to the forest to hear a love- 
tale. 
And Hie youth it was t<^d by wa& AUen- 



ALLEN-A-DALE, 



JPV-om •* Roktby" d Poetn, hy ffklter a-Dale. 

, Scott, Esq, 



j^LLEN-A.©ALE has no faggot for I^EMALE FRIENDSHIP. 

burning, —_ 

Ail«iia-Me has no futrowfor tufniag, by miss MixroaD. 

Allen a**Daie has no fleece for the apm- .«^— 

Yet AlWDile has led goki for the JOY^cannot claim a purer bliss, 

witininc ^ * ^^ * "* 

Come «*d mem^ riddle ! come hearken ^hcn femSiendship*^ meeting kiss. 

And tell ^ the craft of bold Allen-a- '^^*" ^^^^'^ friendship-s parting tear. 

^^** How^ sweet the heart's foil bliss to pour 

_. -, ^ ^ , .To her, whose smile must crown the 

The Bafon of Ravcnsworth pranees m 5^0^ 1 

. .. P^^\. , . ,.. Howsweeter^tilltotdrlofwoes 

And he views his domams upon Arkin- To her, whose feitWul brcitft would 

dale side; ^am 

The mere for his net, and the land for !„ ev'ry grief, in ev'ry care, 

Tu w ?^?*'-i^ ^u ,. WhdKsi^canhill them to repose! 
The chase for the wild, and the park for 

the tame. Oh ! blessed sigh ! there is no sorrow. 

Yet ^teiish of the lake, and the deer <rf But from thy breath can sweetness bor- 

the vale, row ; 

Are less free to Urd Daoc than Allen-a- E'en ♦i-thcpate and droofring flrt^cr 

*^*"* That fades in love's ncglectoi hour^ 



BY TUS &£V. G. CRABBE. 



THE SPORTING MAGAZINE. 195 

EVnwith her woes can friendship's |)OW*t A^d ky the hand of course indulgence 

One happier feeling blend : fed, 

•Tis from her restless bed to creep In dirty patchwork negligently dress'd^ 

And sink, like wearied babe to steep, fteclin'd the wife, an infant at her breast ; 

On, the soft couch her sorrows sleqp, la her wild fooe some touch of grace re- 

The bosom of 9^ friend, xnain'd. 

Of vigour palsied and of beauty stain'd ; 

; .T'lyii, 'f -M I' I II' ' -1 ■•■■ f 'ttirt i tt ta; Hcr blood-shot eyes on her unheeding 

mate 

THE GYPSEY GANG. Were wrathful turn*d, and seemM her 

- wants to state, 

Cursing his tardy aid — her mother there. 
With Gipsy-state engrossed the only 
chair ; 

AGAIN the country was cndos'd: a Solemn and dull her look ; with such she 

wide stands. 

And sdndy road has banks on either And reads the milk-raaid's fortune in hcr 

side • hzxL(\^, 

Where, lo! a hollow on the left ap- Tracing the lines of life ;assum'd through 

pear'd y^'^* 

And there7 Gypscjt tribe tbeir tent had ^^^^ ^^'"^« "^^ ^^^ steady falsehood 

reared • *^^*" 5 

Twas open sprc^ to catch the morning ^'^^ ^'f ^"^ ravage eye she views the 

SUD lUUU, 

And they had now their early meal be- ^^*^ Sludging pinches their intruding 

gun ^^°°^ • 

When two brown boys just left their ^^ ^^ ^^«. S^^.^P ^^^ worn-out Grand- 

* sire sits. 

The early^rav^leT with Uuir pray'rs to Neglected, lost, and living but by fits ; 

greet : Useless, despis'd, his worthless labours 

While yet Orlando held his pence in ... ,-^°"®» . , , . . ^ 

•' hand protected by the vicious Son, 

He saw their sister on her duty stand ; ^^^ half ^upports him ; he with heavy 

Some twelve years old, demure, affected, .,• glance, 

gj y Views the young rumans who around 

Prepared the force of early powers to try : * j v ^*°* ^^^ '*- ^' r 

Sudden a look of languor he descries, ,^"^> ^^ ^^l madness in his face, appears 

And wcU-feign«d apprehension in her ^^ *^**^« ^^^ P^'^S'^^s of their future 

eyes ; years ; 

Train'd, but yet savage, in her speaking Through what strange course of misery, 

fece r o ^jgg^ deceit. 

He toark'd the features of her vagrant ^"^' ^»^^jy ^an<i" ^""^ unpractisM 

race • cheat ; 

When a light liugh and roguish Icefex- W^** shame and grief, what punishment 

press'd *"*^ P*'"» 

The ticc iiia)l«ited in her youthful Sport of fierce passions, must each child 

breast- sustain- 
Forth from the tent hcr elder brother ^« "^^ ^'^^ ^^ approach tbeir latter 

came cna, 

Who seemM 'offended, yet forbore to Without a hope, a comfort, or a friend! 

blame _ 

The young designer, but could oiily trace 

The looks of pity in the traveler's face : 

Within, the Father, who from fences THE VICARAGE SEQUESTERED. 

nigh, 

Had brought the fuel for the fire's sup- QUR vicarage, though small, is snug 

ply, and warm ; 

WatchM now tlie feeble blaae, and stood Two hundred clear — Heav*n keep the 

dejected by ;, Chifrch from harm : 
On ragged rug, just borr«w'd fiom the Were mine the gift — ^from all the cas- 
hed^ sociL'd tribe, 

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TIIE SPORTING MAGAZINE. 



I'd choose the humble man that I'll de- 
scribe. 
^ A plain good Priest, scarce for a -Rector 

"With common sense, small learning, anrt 

less wit ; 
"Who never studied heathen Greek at 

college. 
Yet wise in that which passeth worldly 

knowledge ; 
Well skill'd a village flock in peace to 

keep. 
And better pWas'd to feed than shear his 

sheep ; 
With simple cunning and persuasive art. 
Before he preach the word, to win the 

heart ; 
With decent mirth to temper pious la- 
bours, 
And manners not to shame his country 

neighbours ; 
One who perhaps long tost on life's rough 

ocean. 
Has sometimes ask'd, but never reached 

promotion ; 
And, wearied out with tugging at the oar, 
Would gladly anchor on some friendly 

shore ; 
Well pleased with us to pass declining 

age. 
And end in peace his earthly pilgrimage. 
And when tie falls, may still a Priest 

succeed 
To lead the flock as ^'s self would 

lead ; 
So shall our humble parish ne'er be 

curs'd. 
To sec the portrait 1 have drawn— re- 

vers'd. 



And can it be so $ofta form, 

A voice so clear and sweet, 
Which e'en the Angels can beguile. 

With love shall never meet? 
Though phloris know it not the while. 

Love reigns in her complete. 

With cv'ry flow'r, that sweetest blows. 

For flow'rs to her are dear. 
Her marble forehead we will crown. 

Till she outshine the year ; 
Let Jove come from Olympus down. 

And view our beauty here ! 



For the Sporting Magazine. 



LINES 

On the MutabilUy of Human Affairs. 



A SONG. 



BY LORD THUALOW* 



i 



'yjTHEN Chloris, like an Angel, walks 

Amid the golden spring, 
And, fairer than the blooming flow'rs, 

Of nature's sweets will sing ; 
How can I choose, but prize the hours. 

That fly on rapture's wing ? 

Her voice is like the morning light. 

That, from the amber gate, 
On sea and earth divinely plays. 

Which yet no clouds abate : 
All nature on her charms may gaze. 

And find label a mate. 



ITOW sweet the blushing rose to view. 

Fresh op'ning into flow'r ; 
And yet it is an emblem true, 
Of life's fantastic hour. 

Charms choice as Nature e'er displayed. 

Adorn the flower all prize ; 
But soon, alas ! its beauties fade. 

It withers, drops, and dies. 

The rose, which each fair flower ootvi'd. 

In turn its doom has found ; 
And what was once the garden's pride. 

Lies scatter'd on the giouiid. 

And thus man's life first dawning blooniSs, 
While Hope the prospect cheers. 

But care, «i&s ! ere long consumes. 
His pleasures, and hi:i^ears. 

W. 



THE GAMES OF GREECE. 



Translated from the Greek qf Arckiat^ 
By Mr, Edwards, 



pOUR sacred games, illustrious Greece, 

are thine — 
Of human honour two, and two divmc ! 
Jove's mighty hand th' Olympick olm 

guides ; 
Apollo o'er the Pythick palm presides : . 
Nemsan parsley is Ophehe's care ; 
And th Isthmian pine Palemon's envied 

Share ! . 



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tVL. XII. 



FEBRUARY, 1813. 



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H^ ccxur. 



1 > ^«' s 



CONTENTS. 



#^igree, Itc. of Mat-o*-the-Mtnt .197 

Norwich Cockiiig v 196 

Pointing* on Sport ins Sulgecti ^^ 

Anecdote of Dick Kaight, the HonHnwa . .. I9t 
AiTair of Honour between Lord Montfort and 

Colonel Delap 199 

Rockl^ Coursing Meeting ^i 

Stftllions toCotertn ISIS ...i a. ...«» 

OambUns Debt ...^i.... ..»«..« 4 » .. 9M 

San dbcck Hunt ^ .ri.i. .i . .906 

'Breach of the Game Laws *...... . *fi05 

SwafTham Coursing Meeting 006 

Desperate Poacher* 907 

Mr. Thom*j New Work on Pedestrianism ..90S 
Natural History of the Orkney Islands . . .. fil3 

SSalton Courting Meeting 916 

The illiterate but ingenious Kobber 917 

0»&rta-Martial on Officers of the 85th Jtegt...<ii9 

LCKith Courstng Meeting i 999 

Bxtraordinary InstanoTH of Sagacity inDop99S 



Eatt«Indla lodkeyship ;.98t 

9oine Pardoulan of the LU^ of J«mdMm 

AldlMUB .. ,,t,t Mf 

Gambling in High Ufe „^ 

Dispatee oi^Boints of Honour 911 

Portrait of Cairtain ISArday, with Particulars .^ 

or In9 A«ir( .•*.._.•. . . ... • <•■ r>«.«99v 

Coursfug in Buckiaiiiaiashire 999 

PEA8T OF WIT ; ^ 

SPOHTIN6 INTELLIOEMCE S«S 

Bettings at Tattersall's ^ M« 

To Correspondents iHt 

POBTEY. 

Wlltzhig .1M» 

A FoJe4iunting Song ' 950 

Home and Herefordshire .« ttO 

Song sung in the ** Absent Apothacaiy" ^ .»£ 

The Expostolation 95t 

The Litis of an old Woman 9M 

Impronpto • .. •.• •.••«,.« .aSSft 



i. A heautifiil Engratmg ofMAT-^*''Tm'MiKT, 
II. A Portrait of CAPtAiN Baaclat, in his WaXking Dtm* 

■ . n « Mi l l. , ■<■. iiw ' III " i I - I ^ I . ' i .. jn «■ A ■■ ■ ' .J ' li ' .I 



P£Dl6ftE£» dec. OF MAT-O'-THB- 

MINT. 

M'i4h a Fortraity painted by Barsnoer, 
and engraved by ScdTt. 

]jM[AT-0*-THE.MINT was gof 

by Coiner, out of a supposed 
tborough-bred mare, at Northamp- 
ton. He is brother to Johnny 
Haw, and sister to Miss Coiner, 
against whom be has run three 
times within these last two years, 
and has always been victorious.—^ 
Within these two last years, he has 
won a Cup at Bath, Fifty Guineas 
at Epsom, twice Fifty Guineas at 
Barnet, a Cup at Sherborne, and 
Pifty Guineas at Egfaam, beating 
^ S^J f alioway, tha pTO|itr^ of 



Captain Stonum. This celebrated 
horse is thirteen hands all but a 
quarter of an inch, and is, we ara 
informed, the property of Mr* 
Theobald. 



NORWICH COCKING. 

To the Editor of the Sporting Ma^ 

gatine, 

J Beg leat^ to transmit yoa the 
following correct statement of 
the Cocking at Norwich ; and am^ 
Yo^r Constant Raader, 

Dd 0« 



id» THB SPORTINO MAGAZINE. 

Oif ]V(q«d«3r»tbeS5tb,Tiyetd«7^ wm, f»y ike kte eekbcaterf Mr. 

th« 26t)i« aod Wedneadiijr, the £l|p>»r, of tbt Boyal Acttdeoay ^ 

27th days of January last, was they consist of various kinds o( 

fought, the third vear*8 grand Diain ganie and sporting subjects : as an 

of «ock9, at the Wbtfc Sivan Jnn, old keen Sportsman, I felt peculiar 

in N orwi rh , that city and Norfolk gratilication in their inspection, 

against Cambridgeshire, which was being |*ah>ted with that spirit and 

^'on by the latter, «» under :-^ energy, which no other artist in 

FiMMsig, JOB. feeder, for Cam- bis .time has beeu able to attain. 

hridgeahii« | and I>«an> feed€r> for These pictaret are now on pri* 

N<»rl»lk. vate sale, at Mr. Smith's, No. J, 

tambridgukire. M. a. Cockspur-sfreet, and I doubt not, 

Jfonday, 1st in-go. .1.^.4 1 ^U be eagerly bought up, by tha 

2d iii-gQ 4 O admireiv of Rural SporU, as faw 

Tuesday, - • ] st iu-tfo. ..... 3 O of hit inimitable productions are 

2d in-go 3 O n«^ to be procured. 

Wednesday, 1st in-go. ..... 2 1 I wn. Sir, yoar constant reader 

2d in-go. , . . r. 1 t *o^ admirer, 

^f^>mm Tally-bo ! 

*^* „ 

• Norfolk, M. B. 

Monday, Ist in-go O ANECDOTE OF DICK KNIGmV 

■ 2a ii)-go. . . , , . 1 I XHP HUNTSMAN, 

Tuesday^. . l.$t in-go...... 2 1 — -* 

x^ A J ^«> |n-go ^ O T^ ih0 Edi^ of the Sporting Ma- 

Wednesday, Ist in-go ♦. 3 O gaxim 

2d in-go...... 4 O s,R^ 

;" 'T^HE following anecdote is sent 

-fcT t> rn%. • l^ ^ to you, supposing that it may 

N. B The pit was numerpMsly. ^ ^^i^j ^^rt^y ^ juaettidtt ia 

attended, by a great many of the y^ur entertainisg publication, 

ni-st gentlemen m the counties of __— 

C^iphi^dge and Norfolk. Much * \ 

money was won anrf lo»t, and we ^t is told of JDick Knig)it, the 

believe the match is veryf likely to famous huntsman, that being asked 

he made to fight at the aforesaid tP ride a most hot-beaded T^a^ 

liHi, once a year for seven years to away horse, supposed to he ii»- 

come.. . governable by the best riders io 

the huni, he coolly replied, " Claptf 

^ ■'"""' snaffle pn him, and send him to 

PAINTINGS ON SPORTING "*"'' The ho. ge wis accordingly 

sent, and Pick appeared, pn the 

SUBJECTS. Thursday following, mounted ap- 

■ ' parently as much to his satisfac- 

To the Ediior of the SpoTting\Mck- tion as ever. A Fox was soon un- 

^azine, kennelecf, and away went Pick, a>. 

*^^« ^ • , usual, close to his hounds, leading 

J>fiiKMITnie to recommeml to tlie way, inspiteof aHcorapetitor^ 

yoursportif»g;fripw<l5J^S-0»e'eii;^ t^ the end of one of thesharpftsl. 

pital original Pictures,.! have j<ist 8(hd longesi biursts ever 4aown/ 

The 



THE SPORTING MA6AZINB. 



199' 



The owner of the horse ^cnt to 
the kennel next day, and^ anxious 
to know Dick's opinion of him« 
«aid, " Well, Dick ! bow did you 
like your ride yesterday; did not 
he run away with you >** — '* No ! 
l,y o— , Sir/* replied he, '* I ran 
«way with him/' 



In ! ■ 



AFFAIR OF HONOUR, 

Sttvxen Lord Mtmtfort and Colond Delap^ 
rfthe Ftra Surrey WlUid. 



AN aflfair of honour between the 
above partiest has somewhat en- 
gaged the attention of the ^shion- 
able and sporting world. — ^The fol* 
lowing are the particulars : 

Information having bee» received 
at the Public Office, Bow-street, 
that Lord Montfbrt and Colonel 
Delap were ^ iight a duel Sun* 
day morning early,' (the 15th), on 
a common between Rumford ahd 
Chelmsford, Lavender was diar- 
patched on the Saturday evening, 
with Perry, one of the Conductors 
of the Patrole, to take them into 
cxweody. They went to Rumford, 
where they waited, understanding 
the parties would come there from 
London. Betweefi one and two 
o'clock on the Sundiiy morning, 
Lord Montfort, accompanied by Sir 
George Jackson, as his Lordship's 
tecornl, arrived at the White Hart 
Inn, Rumford. Lavender went to 
his Lordshi]^, and made himself 
known, informing him, that he had 
a warrant against him, to take him 
into custody, on a charge, that he 
had come there for the purpose of 
fighting a duel with Colonel Delap, 
and thereby committing a breach of 
the peace. Lord Montfort, after 
some hesitation, acknowledged the 
dharge to be correct. Lavender 
(old his Lordship, he must consider 



himself his prisoner, and in custody, 
and remain there tillhe apprehended 
Colonel Delap ; to which his Lord- 
ship very readiily consented, and gave 
up his pistols* Lavender proposed, 
that be and Sir George Jackson 
should go to bed, but this they de- 
clined, and.^jc uf all oightr*-The 
officers waited in vain about Rum* 
foi'd for die arrival of Colond De- 
lap, and the time bdng arrlvedf 
(scveii o'clock) when the duel was 
to be fought. Lavender went tor the 
Conmion, the appoitited place of 
meeting, and near the thirteenth; Aliltf 
stone he saw two gendem^n' walk- 
ing backward* and fbfwafd^, whom 
he suspected to be Colonel Delap' 
and his second; but dot knowing 
the Colonel's person, he* told thetn' 
his suspicions; they denied them* 
^Ives at first, but on Lavender" 
telling tiieite he had got Lord Mont- 
.fort in custody at Rumford, 6ne of 
them acknowledged hirti^lf to fe 
Colonel Delap, and the other his 
intended second. They'dinied hav- 
ing any fire arms, and as none cOulct 
be found, it is supposed they had hid 
thena. The officers brought all the 
parties' to London, and to Bow- 
street office, where Mr. Read, the 
Magistrate, attended about one 
o'clock, and admitted Lord Mont- 
fbrt and Colonel Delap to bail, to 
keep the peace towards all his Ma- 
jesty's liege subjects for' twelve 
months, but especially towards each 
other, in a recognizance of lOooL 
each, and two sui'eties of 50<rf. each. , 

A daily print, a fq^ days after 
these particulars became known, 
inserted the following paragraph : 
— «' The Wags of the Surrey Mili- 
tia say, that Lord Montfort and 
Colonel Delap made an unlucky 
forced march from Chelmsford to 
Rumford' Common, to meet the 
Bow-street Officers ; as, if they 
had moved t;vcn by slow time as 

P2 far 



2QCt THE SPQRTINQ MA6AZ1KB, 

far tbe other way, their intended see tbat gentltn|an)» bi|t withmtt* 

sport would not have been inter- success^ and uotbiag satisfactory 

rupted." to tbe feelings of Colonal IJelaf^ 

In consequence, roost probably, was arranged, who persisted in 

of tbis remark, the following let- having a con^plete apology from 

ter was published by Colonel De- Loi?l Montfort, or recouise to tbe 

lap's second ;— 'only oiber alternative left him. In 

T 41, i?j-#^ ^^^^ stage of the business, C^utaiu 

. 70 the WtlPf. Stewart was ui.alde, by severe ill- 

Sir—- I feel myself called upon, ness, to prosecute it further, and 

t^ second to Colonel Delap in an I accordingly was called upon by 

aSair of honour with Lortl Mont- Colonel JDelap, as bis friend, to 

fort, which was terminated by the terminate it immediately. I came 

interposition of two Bow-street up to town accordingly, and lost 

Officers, on Sunday morpiug last, no time in proc4iring a meeting 

the 15tb> to , state the folu)wing with Sir George Jackson, who, on 

circuqistances which attended that the part of Lord Montfort, still i%- 

aftair :— fused tbe apology demanded, iinle<»» 

Colonel Delap, by hb letter of Colonel Delap would, at the same 
the 17th January last, clenaDded time, signify tbat he bad useil some 
an apolo(;y of Lord Montfort, for strong expressions in the course of 
an expression reflecting on him, his letters to Lord Montfort, umier 
used by his Lordship, 10 a letter ^ an impression tbat bis Lordsbip 
addressed by bte Lordsbjp to an had intended to wound bis feelings 
Officer in tbe First Surrey Regi* by tbe expression his Lordship 
ment, under the date of tbe l6th nsed in his letter to the Officer in 
January last, which bis Lordship the 1st Surrey regiojent, above aU 
declined giving : Colonel Delap in luded to. Colonel Delap, in aa* 
^onsequeuce conveyed a challenge swer, commissioned me to say, 
io bis Lordship, accompanying it that nothing in tbe shape of an 
with this observation j viz. :-— That apology sbouUl be made by him ; 
if bis Lordship did not give the he was tbe offended party, and, as 
apology demanded, or accept tbe such, must have satisfaction, 
challenge offered, he. Colonel De- Upon my communicating tbis 
lap, would lay tbe whole business determination to Sir George Jack- 
before the Officers of tbe regiment, son, it was agi-eed between bim 
and before them, in strong Ian* and me, that tbe parties should 

fuage, state his opinion of his meet at the thirteen mile-stone on 

rordsbip's conduct. Lord Mout- the Rnmford road, on Sunday last, 

fort, in reply to this challenge, sig" at ten o'clock in the morning, as 

pified to Colonel Delap, that he suggested by Sir George Jackson, 

had put the affair into the hands of and there and then decide tbe af- 

^ir George Jackson, with whom fair in the field. 

Colonel Delap*s friends might com- Upon my communicating tbis 

pinnicate. Captain Stewart, of arrangement to Colonel Delap, be 

^he 1st Surrey regiment, was nomi- immediately replied, there was such 

nated by Colonel Delap as bis a marked impropriety upou the 

|riend, who went three tunes to very face of tbe time proposed, 

jpondon (twice of which by ap- tbat he must insist upon an earlier 

yointpaent of Lord Montfort^ to hour being named, not later than 

:''''• seven^ 



TH£ SPORTING MAOAZIMS. 






seven^ at fartbest, aiid write bim-. 
%e\£ imaiedjately to this eftect to 
liord MoQtfqrt^ and wbich letter I 
delivered to Sir George Jackson. 
IJpoD my informing Colonel Delap, 
shortly afterwards^ tbat Sir George 
Jackaon bad, in the. course of the 
conversation I had with him, re^ 
plied to a question I put to him, 
tbat Lady Montfort was aware of 
the affair, he,. Colonel Delap, im* 
luediateiy suspecting that this 
meeting was intended to he put an 
end to hy the intervention of po- 
lice officei's^ commissioned me to 
propoee to Sir George Jackson, 
that the place and time of roeet- 
ipg should be altered, and that a 
new place and a new time shoidd 
be appointed by the respective se- 
conds* and concealed from either 
principals, who he proposed should 
beliept in perfect ignorance of the 
place and time fixed on by the se- 
conds, who were to bring the 
principals to the spot determined 
qi^, |q the end tliat if any inter- 
ruption did take place, the respon- 
sibility would attach to the se- 
conds, and not to the principals. 
I accordingly made this proposition 
to Sii' Q. Jackson, viz. to meet at 
the foot of one of the bridges, 
^d to go up or down the river ; 
which be thought proper to de- 
cline^ frying the first arrangement 
must stand, but stated his readiness 
to alter tbe hour from ten to seven, 
but not the place, J was conse- 
C|uently obliged to acquiesce in this 
arrangement. On Sunday morn- 
ing last. Colonel Delap and myself 
repaired to the place fixed upon 
ten minutes before seven o*clcK:k, 
M'bere, having concealed our pis- 
tols in the bc^ge, we wajted for 
Lord Montfort half an hqur, when 
two police 'Officers appeared, who 
stated that Lord Montfort bad ar- 
rived at two o'clock i^ tbe ii|orn- 



ing, at the White Hart, ^itniiA»xl« 
where he bad been preceded an; 
hour* liefpre by the officera in qM?s<^ 
tion, and where Lord Moutfort, by» 
them, on bis arrival, was taken. 
into custody. We were ioHftedU. 
ately arrested also by tbem,. but J, ' 
by tbe permission of Mf. Lsurea^ 
der, and. under the. pcomise tbat 
tbe pistols should spt be taken 
from us, returned to the fj^t 
where they were (concealed, and 
brought them to tbe Antebipe Ion, 
Hare-street, where we bad «lept« 
We were tbeq; taken to Bow-street, 
and bound over to keep tbe peace, 
in 2000L Such is a plain statement 
of the facts, upon wbich I shall 
make no comment, leaving them to 
speaji for themselves. I have the 
honour, &c. 

A. Spig££, €apt. 1st B. Surrey. 

I beg to confirm tbe truth 4ii 
tbe above statemdat, as far^as re* 
lates te me, 

J. Wm. Stewart. 

Whether this letter will produce 
a counter-statenaent on the part of 
Sir George Jackson, remeins to be 
ascertained. 



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ROC]SUSY COURSIKG MEETIKa 
TUBSDAY, FEB. l6: 

li/TR. Jones*s Jilt, agst Mr. Love- 
den's Lavender, undecided. 

Mr. Pickering's Pelter, beat Me, 
Davenport's Daphne. 

Mr. Northey*s Nell, beat Mr, 
Mellish^s ^ther. 

Mr. I Sherwood's I Mark, agsc 
Mr. Goodlake's Glory, undecided. 

Lord Rivers*s Racket, agst Mr« 
Gootllake*s Garrick, undecided, 

Mr. Loveden's Lawyer, beat Mr. 
Jones's Juba. 

4 

Mr. Northy*8 Nimble, agst Mr. 
Davenport's Diaoiond^ undecided. 



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Ifr. nok€Htig*t FcMTtia, bent Mr. 
]l(iv««|wrt*tDriB. 

I#0rcl ]liren(*t Resot, beat Mr. 
Ooodhik^^t Grant. 

Ml. Iiherwood*s I Otpsejrj bait 
Mr« Dmveoport's Driver. 

Mr. JiMMi^s JiBe^ beat Mr. Love- 
dim*»IieaMer. 

Mr; Aftteiipert's I>ennot, beat 
IjOTdlRi«er8*s Rebecca. 

Ifori Rtvers*s Ringdofe, agst 
Mr. Itlierwood's fry, oik 

Mr. Nortby'8 Nettle^ beat Mr. 
IPklMriiig'ft Fonf^s. 

Mr. Da¥eaport*9 Damage, agst 
Mr. WHgbt*8 Netdie, off. 

Mr. kberwood's lo, agst Lord 
Rivets'^ Rap}>, oft 

WEDNESDAY, FEB. IJ, 

Lord Kivers's Ringdove^ beat 
Mr. IsbeKwood*^ Ivy. 
' Lord Rivers*s Rocket, agst Mr. 
O0o4lake*8 GarrfcK, undecided. 
- Mf. Goodlake's Glory, agst Mr. 
Isherwoocrs I Mark, off. 

Mr: Isfaerwoocf 8 lo, beat Mr. 
Wrtgbi*8 Needle. 

Mr. JoQes's Jilt, beat Mr. G«od« 
lake's George. 

Mr. Northy's Nimrod^ beat Mr.. 
Jones*s Jerico, 

Lord Rivers*8 Rosa, agst Mr. 
Nortlty*8 Nettlei undecided. 

Lord River&*s Rapp, beat Mr. 
Norchy*8 NelK 

Lo|d Ri versus Racbel, agst Mr. 
Pickering's Pigue, undecided. 

Mr. Fickering's Pelter, l)eat Mr. 
Nortby's Nimble. 



ALPHABETICAL LIST OF STAL- 
LIONS TO COV£H IN xai> 

^Gmtmued from page i$i,J 

The RguiTS before each Horse's Name, 
dieaote his Age ae May Diy, S813. 

^RABIAN, at Sandwdl, near 

Birmtngbam, at lO^s. and a 

half. — He is of a blood Bay, and^ 



of one of the very best breeds, antf 
was brottgbt to England by tbe lat^ 
Mr. Manesty.-— He is nearly 15 
bands high, and in regard to shape, 
ha possesses all those points vfarkrh 
are calculated for strength and 
tpeed.— »His legs are remarkably 
straight and free from blemish, 
and bis feet singularly good.— -He 
is very long and broad in bis thighs, 
and bis hocks clean and well form*^ 
ed, and perfectly exempt from either 
spavin, curl), or windfall.— *He wiH 
remain at SamhveH until tbe 25tb 
of A|)ril, and from the I at ^f May 
he will be at Tattersall's for the re-' 
mainder oi the season. 

Ahchduks, (hite Lord Darling- 
ton's) at Puddington, near Chester, 
at 5g8. and a half.— By Archduke, 
(own Brother to Stamford) out of 
an own Sister to Beningbrongh. 

22. Bbnivgbrough, at BTr. 
Collinson's Stables, MiMehamr 
Yorkshire, 20 mares at l6gs« each- 
•—By King Fergus ; dam by Herod ;• 
Pyrrha, by Matcli'em, cot of 
Dncbess, by Whitenose*. 

Capsicum, at Wentwortb« 
Lodge, near Rntherham, at 6gs. 
—By Sir Peter Teazle, otit of Eve- 
lina, tbe dam of Orville, Cer« 
vantes, &c. 

7. CaavANTEs, at the same^ 
place and price as Capsicum.-^By 
Don Quixote, ont of Evelina, tbe 
dam of Orville, &c. 

1 2. EvANDEa, at Mr. Knapton*s 
Farm, Huntington, near York, at" 
0gs. and a crown. — By Delpini; 
dam, Caroline, by Phenomenon \ 
Faith, by Pacolet, out of Atalanta, 
by Match'em. 

O. P. at W/tllerby, near Hull, at 
2gs. — By Hambletonian; dam, 
Mary, by Highflyer, Goldfinder, 
out of Lady Bolingbroke; by 
Sfjuirrel. 

6. Roderick Dntr, at Lytham, 
near fteston, Lancasbiiv, at t^^ 

aD4 



T&£ SPORTBfG UAGAZSm, 



fpd a cnwm.— By Sir Peter Ten* 
zle; dam by Young Marsk,. 

24. St. Geo&gb, without Mic- 
klej^ate-Bar, York, at 5gs. and a 
halt. — ^By Highflyer, out of a Sis- 
ter to Soldier, by Eclipse, Oniar,' 
&c. 

23. ScBEVETON, at Malton/ 
Yotkshire, at 5gs. and a half. — By 
Highflyer, MaCch'em, out of Bar- 
Hbara, by Snap. 

ig. 8tajifobi>> at Monreith, 
Wigtonsbire, S(;otland, 30 mares 
by subscription, (besides those of 
his owner) at IQgs. and one guinea. 
—By Sir Peter Teazle, out of Ho- 
ratia, by Eclipse. 

' 10. S WBEtwiLLiAM, at the same 
place and price as St. George.— 
Own Brother to Ciifte, by St. 
George ; dam by Ruler, Ali-Bey, 
out of Pencil's dam, by Syphon. 

6, Trophonius, at Hm*worth- 
Place, near Croft-Bridge, Durham, 
**t 7g8. and a half. — By Bening- 
brougb; dara by Stamford, Phe- 
nomenon ; Matron, by Florijel, 
out of Maiden, by Match'em. 

5. TuoPHONXs, at W^ntbridge, 
between Ferrybridge and Doncas- 
ter, at 5g8. and a half.— By Sor- 
cerer; dam byDungannon; Flir- 
tilte, by Conductor 5 Flirt, byS<)uir. 
lel; Helen, by Blank, Crab, out of 
a Sister to Partner, by Jigg. 

Tbumpatos, at liangbam, Rut- 
landshire, at 5g9. and a crown.— 
By Old Trunipator ; dam by Mafc 
Antony, Imperator, Herod. 
. 5. Young L'Obiekt> at Rich- 
i^ond, Yorkshire, at 5gs. and ^s.-*« 
By l4*Orient; dam by Bening- 
bjough^ Drone, Dux, out of Snap- 
dragon, by Snap. 



I.. . J ii .jurji i n i : g 



PUGIUSM. 

j^ Battle was fought on Thurs- 
"** day, the 1 1th of February, be- 



tween B. N ^ £si). BOH of a Re- 

yei:end Prelate, and a geaUcwan'i 
footmi^n of SoutbanptoQ% Xk« 
combatants met by mutual cotoHUt 
at ten A. M. when^ after • sharp 
contest of twt^nty naiNitet ^mi.iip*^ 
wards, and having exchaiif«d te* 
veral severe rounds, thehoppmaUt 
geotlemau gave in. An tfiiii<Mir^ in 
which the victor busbiind mpfwt^ 
himself deeply injured* pr^incwi 
the gymnastic. divei«ioii. 

Letter from Molinem» ih$ Mknk^ 

Lekeiter, F^. a.~T^ fellows 
ing paragraph haying lataly ap- 
jieai'ed : — . 

*' Jay, the pugilist, baa «bal» 
lenged Moliueaux to ^ht at wf 
notice ; but blackte remains botk 
4eaf9Jad dumb to this chalfenge^ 
as he did to Cribb'i immtdiate ac*- 
ceptance of a vaunting challenge to 
him. The champion promises iiim 
a love-dressing for his 6ott»cet, if 
he «ould be prevailed on to eome 
to liondon ;** 

I, ' the smd Moliiie«ax, do dei 
clare, that I n^ver Teoei?ed. mxf 
challenge but through the medium 
of the above print ) but I ahi readf 
to fight him at any place withia 
the county of Leicester, for a sum 
not exceeding two hundred pounds^ 
if accepted within one month of 
the above date. In opposition to 
that pert of the paragraph which 
relates to Cribb. I declare^ that i 
sent him a challenge within two 
months, but I have received no an« 
swer, my friends being mention* 
ed in the challenge who would 
back me to any amount ; and that 
1 have never received any chal* 
lenge from Crtbb since I last 
fought him. 

N.B. Letters kft at the Post 
Office, Lekester^ will be. doljr at* 
tended to. 

The >4 Mark of 

T&Olf AS MOLUISAUX. 

Asefer« 



iOt THE SPCfAttifib UAGA&ffg. 

« 

A htvitt pitched battle was tute/' whicb lie contended wat 1K« 

Ibugbt^for twenty guineas usirie^ on oessaiy. 

T%^etff th«2ci instant, at Beach^ Lord Ellenboroiigh tbouglit thi^ 

Mli, Berks, between George Ham- dbjectidn well founded \. but on. 

fhrey, a coachman, and John Har- Mr. Park stating that he woaM 

liogton, a waterman; the former proceed on an action for money 

was backed by Caftato Hand, an bad and received, without refe« 

mamMmp, and the latter by a Mr. rence to the statute, bis Lordship 

JaiAMf. 4tiemen> who were about allowed the cause to proceed. 

twelve stone, were both good two-^ The answers of the defendants to 

fttmded lutter». Betting wi» eren hills in Chancery, filed by plaintitF, 

ft setting* to, and after ^ghting ten were put in. 

minutes, both "were so much pn- The Soticitor-Oenerat objected, 

viilied athout the bead, that their that those answers were not admis^ 

iMturet were not tH9tingui»bai>)e. sible, inasmuch as they were ob-» 

Theyv howeter, contested the bat-* tained tinder the statute, and the 

tie for one hoar and ten minutes ; staibte, by the form of the deck- 

learcely- any dosing took place ; ration, was out of the question ,' 

emry round, with the exception of' bat Lord Ellenborough over-ruled 

Hke three last; terminated by this objection, stating, that it was 

knock-downr blaws. Their faces competent to a party in any case, 

were severai times landed, and which would not make the defen- 

Harlington was ultimately obliged dant liable criminally, or in an ac- 

•» yield* tion for penalties, to file a bill, to 

' ' ' ' which defendants must answer, 

PowKR, we understand, will and, therefore, plaintiff might have 

bave a sparring benefit at the' had those answers without refer- 

Fifes^Courr, St. Martin*9-lane, On enee to the statute. The ansv^et 

the. 1 7tb of MaTch. of Darley stated Cracroft and l)e to 

have been partners in the play, and 

m rt va^ iuf f \"u t t ,1 "B ' -M .i.j..f that each had received 3541.; but 

: GAMBLING DEBT, ^^l^^^!^ "'" 

«. , . ^^- • 11 i^ * r The Solicitor-General then ob- 

Mecotvrea hu an Jetton tn me Court of , x^ . 1. 1 ^ '^u 

King's Bench, Monday y Feb. %2. jected, that Darley did not either 

* play or win in his own person 5 but 

tbiadcwood V, Oractoft and Hill Dariey. his Lotdship held, that a person 

TPHIft was an action of debt to playing by his partner. In point of 

"*" recover thesnm of 84X1. lost? by law is to be Considered as playing 

pTaintiffto defendants at hazard, himself. 

Cracroft suffered judgment by de- Lonl EHenborougb directed the 

fciult. The action was stated to Jury to find for plaintiff; but gave 

bave beeii brought on the statute 9 defendant leave to move,, on the 

4nn','qap. , sec. 3. ground that the parties were in 

The^ SdRcitor-GerteraJ objected pari delicto -, and if they were to 

that the declaration was merely he so considered, his I^ordship de- 

for money had anB received, and clared that plaintiff ought to have, 

did w* conchide with thevjfonb been nonsuited.— Verdict for phiin-'^ 

•* contrary to the form, of t^ 8ta« tiff, 704L 



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dot 



SANDBECK HUNTr 

STo tA« Editor of the Sporting Ma^ 
gazine. 

SIR, 

T^Y inserting the particular^ of 
the folio wing fox-cbase> in 
your amusing Magazine^ you will 
oblige, your's, &c. 

A Constant Readsr. 



On Monday, the 4th of Jann*^ 
ary, the celebrated pack of Liord 
Scarbrough threw off at Seiiby, 
the seat o( the Earl of Galway^ 
and proceeded to tiy the planta- 
tion near the house, in which a fine 
dog fox was soon unkenneled^ 
and after making a ring in the 
plantation, he broke away at the 
low corner of it, with the hounds 
close at his brush, over the new 
Inclosure, between Harworth and 
Bawtry, for S winnow Wood, which 
be passed through, * and' went to 
Limpool Gorse, through it^ and 
oyer the bill betvveen Shooter's 
Hill and Austerfield^ scorning to 
try the earths at Piper Wood, 
(which was near him to the left), 
and up by Brancroft toFinningley 
Park^ where the hounds came to a 
check, after forty-five minutes of 
very desperate and straightforward 
running, and at such a pace as few 
horses could live with them, it be- 
ing the first day of a many after 
the frost. — ^After a check of about 
five minutes, bold Reynard was 
viewed in the gorse,- at the low 
end of the Park, which he broke' 
away from as gallantly as ever to / 
the right of Fioningley Town, 
pointing for the Isle of Haxey, in 
9 line with the village of Wroot, 
but being headed by some plough- 
men, he changed his course, and 
turned back to the left, over the 
deep and dirty Car, in the Lord* 
shij) of Finniogley, for the town 
^ V^i,. XLI.— No. 245. " 



of ;Blakestf>ne, then to the < right, 
to the village of Aokley, wbere'he 
was viewed about one hundred 
yards before the hounds; from 
thence through Brompton - Sprmg 
to iHay field Spring, where thecele- 
hrftted pack, with the famrous old 
Merry^Lasa at the head of tbem> 
ran into him, after a moet excel-* 
lent rtm.of two bonrs, aiKl one of 
the best runs my Lord's hounds 
have had this season. 

N. B. There were a few of the 
common casualties attendant on 
fox-chases ) viz. tumbles^ tired 
horses> imd being in bogs, &c. &c. 



BREACH OF THE GAME* 
LAWS. 

Actum tried in the Court of JSitr^'s Sendh^ 
Westmimter, Saturday, Fw. 13. 

Clarke, Esq. V. Broughtbn* 

nPHIS was an action brought 'by 
the plaintiff, a gentleman o£ 
fortune, residing at Twickenham> 
Middlesex, against the defendant^ 
a farmer of the same neighbour* 
hood, to recover a penalty of five 
pounds, for keeping a setting dog 
and gun, and for exposing a hare 
for sale, contrary to the game laws^ 
he being an unqualified person. 
It appeared upon the evidence of 
one Beech, a tenant of the plain* 
tiff, that he observed the defend- 
ant crossing his master's grounds 
with a gun and setting dog, ac- 
companied by another person, and 
shortly after saw him carrying a 
hare, which had been shot. ' Upoa 
his cross-examination, he said he 
was employed by the plaintiff* to 
watch the game, for which he wat 
paid proportionably, and was to 
have received twelve shillings for 
this traiisaction, but was only pitid 

£ e seven; 



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teTtn ; he did not «ee the def«iid« 
«ot «hoot the bare, nor did he know 
be bad already paid twcnty'-nine 
ponads for it, upon a convictioA 
before a Magistrate. 

The Solicitor-General, for the 
defendant, obierved, that it was 
not fiBii: bim to question tkie policy 
of the gape laws, whatever difier« 
CBce oil Opinion might exist u|K>n 
that subject, but as long as they 
remained on the statute books, it 
was the duty of Courts of Justice 
to enforce them. In the present 
case, che defendant was a fanner, 
and at the time of thii» transaction 
was crossing the plaintiff's grounds 
hi his way to his own fields in the 
neighbourhood, and having lately 
planted a field of lieans, was desi- 
rous of killing a crow or two, to 
hang up, as was usual in such cases, 
to deter the birds, when he was ac- 
cidentally met by a Mr. fioyton, a 
neighbour, (who was a qualified 
person)' and had been out sporting, 
when an accident happening to the 
lock of his gun, be borrowed the 
defendant's, and just at that mo« 
ment a hare crossing the path, like 
a keen sportsman, he could not 
resist the temptation, and shot it, 
and at his request the defendant 
crossed the hedge to pick it up. 

Boyton was then called to prove 
these facts, but it appearing that 
be himself was not properly quali* 
fied, the Jury found their verdict 
for plaintiff, 6L 



fiWAFFHAM COURSING ]if££T^ 

ING. 

CWAFFHAM Coursing Meetio^r. 
cominenoed on Tuesday, the 2d 
ofFeUruaiy, 1813. 

FIRST WESTACai FIEX.O. ' 

Matches. 
SSr A. Bertie's w. b. p. Ermine, 



beat Mr. Hamond's blk. b. p. Swift* 
sure. 

Sir A. Bertie's blk. b. p. Oyster- 
wench, beat Mr. Hamond's blk. d« 
p. Snug. 

Mr. Wilkinson*s blk. b. Celiac 
beat Sir A. Bertie's blk. d. RoUa. 

Mr. Merest's blk. b. p. Otter, 
against Mr. Bliss's blue d. p. Nes- 
tor.-^No course, two hares. 

Mr. Dover's blk. d. Dart, beat 
Mr. Merest's blk. b. Octavia. 

Mr. Wilkinson's blue b. p. Char- 
lotte, beat Mr. Merest's blk. b. p. 
Olivia. 

Sir A. Bertie's blk. d. p. Smooch, 
beat Mr. Wilkinson's blk. d. p. Co- 
lonel. 

Mr. Young's blk. b. p. Vice- 
versa, against Mr. Bliss's blk. d. p. 
Gipsey, undecided. 

Mr! Hamond's blue b. Sally, 
beat Mr; Wilkitison's r. b. Care- 
less. 

Sir A. Bertie's blk. d. Crib, beat 
Mr. Young's blue d. Vulcan. 

Sir A. Bertie's blk. b. Yarico, 
beat Mr. Bliss's blk. b. School- 
Lass. 

Sir A. Bertie's blk. b. Cora, beat 
Mr. Hamond's blue b. Slipper. 

Mr. Hamond's r. b. p. Sophia, 
agst Mr. Wilkinson's blk. d. p. Cap- 
tain, undecided. 

Mr. Bliss's Sim, beat Mr. Young's 
Van. 



NARBOROUOH FIELD. 

Wednesday, Feb. 3. 
ForthaOottplet. 

Mr. Emes's blk. b. Venus, beat 
Sir A. Bertie's blk. d. Express. 

Mr. H. Redhead's blk. b. Love-. 
ly, beat Mr. Redhead's blk. and 
w.b. Lively. 

Mr. Hamond's blue d. Question, 
beat Mr. Wilkinson's r. d. Cato 

Mr. E. Hamond's r. d. Sun- 
flower, 



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flower, beat Mr. Yoaog's blk. cL 
Veb«rmeDt« 

.MATCHES. 

Mr. Redhead's blk. d. p. Loung- 
er, beat Mr. Young's br. b. p. Vio- 
lante. 

Mr. Dover's blk. d. Dart, beat 
Mr. Redhead's blk. b. p. Leveret. 

Mr. Wilkinson's r. b. Canary, 
against Mr. Emes's blk. b. Emma, 
undecided. 

Sir A. Bertie's bhic d. Manby, 
beat Mr. Bliss's blk.b. Sim. 

Mr. Wilkinson's r. b. Careless, 
beat Mr. Johnson's blk. d. Mango. 



M^COND WESTACRE FIEI»D. 

Thursday, Feb, 4. 
For the Couples. 

Mr. Emes's Venus, beat Mr. Ha- 
mond's Question. 

Mr. R. Redhead's Lovely, beat 
Mr. R. Hamond's Sunflower. 

MATCHES. 

Sir A. Bertie's hlk. b. Yarico, 
beat Mr. Bliss's blk. b. SchooL- 

Sir A. Bertie's Cora, beat Mr. 
Redhead's Lively. 

Mr. Bliss's blk. b. Gipsey, beat 
Mr. £mes's r. b. Endless. 

Mr. Hamond's blk. d. Skylight, 
beat Mr. Redhead's b. b. Light- 
Bing. 

Mr. R. Hamond's r. b. Sophia, 
beat Mr. Wilkinson's blua d.. Cap- 
tain. 

Mr. Wilkinson's Careless, beat 
Mr. Young's Vehement. 

Sir A. Bertie's w. b. Ermine, 
against Mr. WilkiosoB'sblk. d. Co- 
lonel, undecided. 

Sir A. Bertie's blk. b. p. Oyster- 
wench, against Mr. Wilkinson's 
blue b. p. Charlotte,, undecided. 

Sir A. Bertie's blk. and w. d. 
Crib, beat Mr« Redhead's blk. b. 
Lydia. 



Mr. Bliss's blue d. Nestor, beat 
Mr. H. Redhead's r. b.Tankey. 

Sir A. Bertie's blk. and w. d. 
Smouch, beat Mr. Young's w. d. p^ 
Vannat^r. 

TiilXD WKSTACftB PIBLO, 

Fnday, February 5. 
For the Couples. 

Mr. Emes's Venus, beat Mr. R, 
Redhead's Lovely, and won th« 
pouples. 

MATCHES. 

Mr. Redhead's Leveret, beat Mr. 
Young's Vehement. 

Mr. Young's Vulcan, beat Mr, 
Redhead's Lounger. . 

Mr. Emes's Emma, beat Mr, 
Wilkinson's Captain. 

Mr. Wilkinson's Colonel, beat 
Mr. Eraes's Emperor. 

, Mr. R. Hamond's r. d. Sampson^ 
beat Mr. Wilkinson's r. d. Cantab, . 

Mr. Bliss's School-Lass, beat 
Mr. R. Hamond's w. b. Sylvia. 

■ 1-1. r- ^ ^ I ' !■ ■ ■ . f-'rr^iiwr 

DESPERATE^ POACHERS. 

TN the evening of Monday^ tbe 
8th instant,, between eight and 
nine o'clock, a most dariof attick 
was made upon- two of his Ma-* 
jesty^ gamekeepers, by five poach* 
ers, who were discovered inji plan* 
tatioo of Windsor Great Park, ia 
tbe act of shooting the pheasants. 
These men were all armed with 
fire-arms and bludgeons, and seve* 
T^\ with long poles of a peculiar 
construction, with which they are 
accustomed to discharge thespring- 
guus which are set in their way. 
By this unequal force the keepers 
were overpowered, although they 
manfully fought with the pikes 
which they usually carry when they 
expect a conflict, and inflicted many 
aevere wounds oh their sturdy op- 
ponents. One of the gtmekeepera 

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was so dreadfidly beatm, that his 
life is in tbe utmost danger, from 
the severe blows he received on his 
bead with the bqtt end of a giui> 
till it was shattered from tbe barrel 
and tbe lock broken in pieces. One 
of the ofenders is in oostody* and a 
reward of fifty pounds is offered for 
the apprehension of two othei'S 
who have escaped. 

Two poachers were convicted be-* 
fore the Magistrates of Brighton, 
on Monday, the 1st inst. in tbe full 
|>enalty, for tracking hares through 
the snow. It is supposed they he- 
Jong to a gang which has for a long 
tifne past infested that neighbour- 
}koo6, to the great annoyance of 
the qualified sportsman. 



as 



PEDESTRIANISM, 

^, an Accowit of the Performances 

' qfcdebraied PsDESTRfANs^ during the 

last and present Oeniury; with a JuS 

' Narratvoe of Ca^ktaih Barclay's ;w6- 

tie mid private MATCiist; tmd an 

EssAT on TRAilrnrG.— JSy the Author 

' mjths Histonf of Jberdeen. 

MR. Thorn has this month pub- 
lished, under the above title, 
his promised work on Pedestrian- 
hm. It is comprised in seven chap* 
tfersj the Ist being an introduc- 
tory sketch of the gymnastic exer- 
cises of the ancientfe. — M and 3d, 
Modern jJedestrianism.-'-4th, Cap^ 
tain Barclay's public and private 
^hatches.— -5th, Sketches of the 
Captain's favourite pursuits and 
general mode of living. — 0th, On 
training.— And 7tlT, On the phy- 
sical powers of man. — ^To which 
the author has added an Appendix, 
describing the genealogy of the 
iparclay family. 

Agreeably to tbe intention we 
^kpre8^e4 wl|eii auQoa&cing the 



work in December last, 'we shall 
now extract from it for the peru- 
sal of our readers, -the preface of 
the arUliior, and part of the Chapter 
on training : of its inerits, we shall 
briefly say, that it is written with 
tpirit and ability ; contains many 
judicious remarks on tbe utility of 
promoting tl^ manly exercise of 
pedestrianism ; and i^'ill afford 
much entertainment to every per- 
son who feels an interest in the 
subject on which it treats. Those 
who read the Journal of Captain 
Barclay's celebrated match, and 
the difficulties he had to encounter 
in its accomplishment, will no 
longer feel surprised at every one 
else having failed who has made 
a similar attempt. It certainly was 
the greatest effort of strength and 
courage united, ever undertaken 
by man. 



FREFACB. 



At the suggestion of a few 
friemls, the author undertook thii 
work. His intention at first was 
to confine it solely to Captain Bar-» 
clay's performances. But on far- 
ther consideration, he thouffht that 
the feats of other pedestrians 
might be introduced, and the plan 
enbrg£d,^o as to embrace a trea- 
tise conveying information or 
amu^ment to readers in general, 
as well as to sporting gentlemen. 

He has therefore treated of ofe-» 
jects oonneeted with ibe physical 
powers of man, with the view of 
drawing tbe attention of the pub- 
lic to the best means of strength- 
ening and augmenting the capaci- 
ties of the body; Th^ subjeet he 
deems important, especially at a 
time when the physical energies 
of many of our countrymen are fre- 
quently lM*ought into aetion by the 
confiicts of i^ar. 



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The republics of Greece pre« 
]pnred their youth for the duty of 
Che fiel'd by thetr gymnasHc iusti*- 
tottons : and the Romans w«re ex* 
ercised by long marches^ mnning^ 
leaping^ and throwing the javelini 
Bat with the soldiers of Britain^ a 
different system prevails. WhHe 
atationed at bome> tbey are al* 
lowed to waste their time in *' in* 
dolent repose/* and prevented from 
taking even that degree of exercise 
which is requisite to health, lest 
they should exhaust the most trU 
fling of t(^eir necessaries, before 



sufficient moment to deserre tbm 
attention of aU classes. 

The diiftrent pedestrian matched* 
which are recorded, may a^nre ti> 
illoBtrate general principles, at 
they exhibit the powev of the hu« 
man f ra me ; and h ence conciusidai 
of extensiw titililTy may be de« 
duced. But to Sporting Gentle- 
men this work is particakrly in- 
teresting, as they will find, con^ 
ciaely related, the performances of 
the most celebrated pedestrians ef 
the present age. And from what 
baa been' already done, they may 



the return of the usual period of form some opinion of what it if 
supply. All the advantages they possible for others to accomplish ; 



might derive from a course of train- 
ing, are thus sacrificed to an ill- 
judged economy, and to the vain 
show of a parade or field day. 



and thus regulate their btts aceord* 
ing to the different cireumstanoet 
of the cases under their review. 
The author acknowledges bit 



The author has considered Ex*- obligations to several genriemen of 

ercise in a military point of view, the highest respectabiiity, for their 

and he thinks be cannot too strong- encouragement and patronage. To 

ly urge the necessity of adopting Captain Barclay, in partlcnlar, he 

such measures for training our is much indebted, Ibr having net 

troops preparatory to aetual ser^ only furnished' the • chapter om 

▼ice, as would fit them for under- training, but also fbr having taken 

going the hardships of the cam- the trouble t9 revise die greater 



paign. 

He therefore -trusts that this 
work may deserve the ]jeru$al of 
military men — ^no class in the com-, 
mnnity having so much occasion 
to prepare themselves to bear bo« 
dily fatigue, as those who are en- 
gaged in the business of war.^^ 
And, if it be fiilly explained, as the 
author hopes it is, by what expe- 



part of the work. 

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The art a^ training for athlette 
exercises, consists in purifying the 
body and strengthening its powers^ 
by certain processes, which thus 
dients men may be enabled to un- <|nal{fy a person for the accom* 
'dergo more than ordinary exertion, plisbment of laborious exertioni^ 
the subject certainly merits the It was known to the ancients, who 
cpnsideration of the defenders of paid much attention to the means 
their country. ofaugmenting corporeal vigour and 

But as exercise conduces so activity ; and accordingly, among 
much to the stiength and sound- the Greeks And Romans^ certain 
ness of both body and mind, the rulest of regimen and exercise were 
subjects treated in this volume, prescribed to the caadidateS for 
may be deemed, he jpresumes, of gymnastic celebrity. 

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We are not, howeveri in posses- 
•iim of any detailed account of 
tbe particular kind of Diet in use 
among the Greeks previously to tbe 
soleoin contest at tbe public games | 
Iwit we are assured, that tbe strict- 
est temperance, sobriety, and re- 
gularity in living, were indispens- 
ably requisite* Tbe candidates, at 
tbe same time, were subjected to 
daily exercise in tbe Gymnasium 
for ten montbs, wbicb, with tbe 
prescribed regimen, constituted tbe 
fveparatory course of training 
•flopted by the Atblets of ancient 
Greece. 

Among the Romans^ tbe exer- 
cises of the Palasstra degenerated 
fiom the rank of a liberal art, and 
became a profession, which was 
embraced only by the lowest of 
mankind. Tbe exhibitions of tbe 
Gladiators were bloody and feroci- 
cms spectacles, wbicb evinced tbe 
barbarous taste of the people. Tbe 
combatants, however, were regu- 
larly trained by proper exercise, 
and a strict observance of regimen. 
In the more early stages, tbeir diet 
consisted of dried figs, new cheese, 
and lK>iled grain. But afterwards, 
animal fodd was introduced as a 
part of the athletic regimen, and 
pork was preferred to any other. 
Galen asserts, that "pork con- 
tains more real nutriment than the 
flesb of any other animal wbicb is 
used as food by man : this fact,*' 
he adds, *' is decidedly proved by 
tbe example of the atbletse, wbo, 
if they lived but for one day on 
any other kiqd of food, found tbeir 
vigour .m»)nifQstly impaired the 
nextr^fCo^ ofHedUK voL iL p. 
118 J 

The preference given to pork liy 
the ancients, does not correspond 
with the practice of modern train- 
ers, who entirely reject it ii) tbeif 
regimen : But in the manner of 



preparing the food they exactly 
agree— reof^aif or broiling being 
preferred to boilmg, by both ; au4 
bread unfermented, to that prepared 
by leaven. A very small quantity 
of fluid was allowed, and this was 
principally water. When the daily 
exercises of tbe Athlete were 
finished, they were refrfsbed by 
immersion in a tepid bath,. *' where 
tbe perspiration and sordes wer^ 
carefully removed from the s&irfacf 
of the body by the use of the 
strygil. Tbe skin was then dili- 
gently rubbed dry, and again 
anointed with oil. If thirsty, they 
were permittefl to drink a small 
4)uantity of waim water. They 
then took their principal repast, 
after wbicb they never used any 
exercise. They occasionally also 
went into tbe cold bath in the 
moriiing. Tbey were permitted to 
sleep as many hours as they chose ^ 
and great increase of vigour, as 
well as of biilk, was supposed to he. 
derived from long-continued and 
sound repose." — {Code of Health, 
roi. ti.p. 120.) 

Previously to entering on this 
regimen, tbe AthletB were sub- 
jected to the evacuating process 
by means of emetics, which they 
preferred to purgati ves. The sexu- 
al intercourse was strictly probi* 
bited. " To exercise their pa- 
tience, an<l accustom them to bear 
pain without flinching, they were 
occasionally flogged on the back 
with the brandies of a kind of 
rhododendron, till the blood flowed 
pretty plentifully. By diminishing 
tbe quantity of tbe circulating 
fluid, this rough kind of cupping 
W[as also considered as salutary, in 
obviating tbe tendency to plethora, 
to wbicb tbey were peculic(riy li- 
able."— (^Ow/e of Health, twi. ii. m 
121.) 

Pure and salubrions air was 

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tiPMlied a chief requisite ; and ac- 
cordingly the principal schools of 
the Roman Atbletae were esta- 
blished at Capua and Ravenna, the 
most healthy places in all Italy. 
They exercised in the open air, 
and, by habit, became familiarized 
to every change of the weather, tbe 
vicissitudes of which soon ceased 
to affect them. 

The manner of training among 
tbe ancients bears some resem- 
blance to that' now practised by 
the moderns. But as their mode 
of Jiving and general babits were 
somewhat different from those of 
tbe present age, a difference of 
treatment is now required to pro- 
ilucc tbe same effects. 

Tbe great object of training, for 
runnings or boxing matcbes, is, to 
increase tbe muscular strength, 
and to improve tbe free action of 
tbe lungs, or wind, of tbe person 
subjected to tbe process, which is 
done by medicines, regimen, and 
exercise. That this object can be 
accomplished, is evident from the 
nature of ihe human system. It 
is well known, (for it has been de- 
monstrated by experiments,) that 
every part of the firmest bones is 
successively absorl)ed and deposit- 
ed. «' Ttie bones and th^ir liga- 
ments, the muscles and their ten- 
dons, all the finer, and all the 
more flexible parts of the body, 
are us continually renewed, and as 
properly a secretion, as the saliva 
that flows from the mouth, or the 
moisture that bedews the surface. 
The health of all the parts, and 
their soundness of structure, de- 
pend on this perpetual absorption 
and perpetual renovation 5 and ex- 
ercise, by promoting at once ab- 
sorption and secretion, promotes 
life without hurrying it, renovates, 
«ll the parts, and preserves them 



apt and fit for every office.'*— -(XM* 
of Health, vol. it. p. 84.) 

When the human frame is thus 
capable of being altered ami reno* 
▼ated, it is not surprising that the 
art of training should be carried 
to a degree of perfection almost 
incredible; and that by certain 
processes, the breath, strength, and 
courage of man, should be ao 
greatly improved as to enable hioi 
to perform tbe n^ost laborious un* 
dertaki ngs. That such effects have 
been produced is unquestionable, 
being fully exemplified in the as- 
tonishing exploits of our most ce- 
lebrated pedestrians, which are tbe 
infallible results of preparatory di8<* 
cipline. 

The skilful trainer attends to 
the state of the bowels, the lungs, 
and tbe skin; and be uses such 
means as will reduce the fat, and, 
at tbe same time, invigorate the 
muscular fibres. The patient it 
purged by drastic medicines; he 
is sweated by walking under a load 
of clothes, and by lying between 
feather-beds. His limbs are rough* 
ly rubbed. His diet is beef or 
mutton; bis drink, strong ale; 
aud be is gradually inured to exer- 
cise by repeated trials in walking 
and running. '' By extenuating 
ti^efat, emptying the cellular sub- 
stance, hardening the muscular 
fibre, and improving the breath, 
a man of tbe ordinary frame maj 
be made to fight for one hour, 
with tbe utmost exertion ofstrelngth 
and courage,*' (Code of Health, 
vot it. p. 8gJ or to go over one 
hundred niiles in twenty - four 
houri. 

Tbe most effectual process for 
training is that practised by Cap« 
tain Barclay; and the particular 
method which he has adopted, haa 
not only been santtioncd by pro* 

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fesfional men, but has. met with 
the unqualifiecl approWion of ama- 
teurs. ' The following statement, 
therefore^ contains the most ap- 
proved rules 3 and it is presented 
to the reader, as the result of much 
experience, founded on the tbeo- 
letic principles of the art. 

The pedestrian who may be sup- 
poaed in toleiable condition, enters 
vpon his training with a regular 
course of physic, which consists of 
three closes. Glauber Salts are 
generally preferred 3 and from one 
ounce and a half to two ounces, 
tre taken each time, with an in- 
terval of four days between each 
dose.* After having gone through 
the course of physic, be commences 
his regalar exercise, which is gra- 
dually increased as he pi^oceeds in 
the training. When the object in 
Yiew is the accompHsbmcDt ^of a 
peciestrian match, his regular ex- 
ercise may be from twenty to twen- 
ty-four miles a. day. He must vise 
at £ve in the moniing, run half a 
mile at the top c^ bis speed up bill, 
and then walk six miles at a mode- 
rate 4)ace, coming in about seven 
to breakfast, which should consist 
€f beef-steaks or mutton'cbo[is 
under-done, with stale bread and 
old beer. After breakfast, bemuse 
again walk six miles at a moderate 
pace, and at twelve lie down in 
bed without bis clothes for half an 
hour. On getting up, lie nmst 
walk four miles, and return by four 
to dinner, which should abo be 
beef-steaks ot* mutton-chops, with 
bread and beer as at breakfast^ 



Jnimediately after dinDer, he auist 
resuQie his exercise by runuing 
half a mile at top of bis speed, and 
walking six miles at a moderate 
pace. He takes no more exercise 
for that day, but retires to bed 
about eight, and next morning pro- 
ceeds in the same manner. 

After having gone on in this 
regular course for three or four 
weeks, the pedestrian must take a 
four-mile sw^ecr^, which is produced 
by running four miles, in flannel, 
at the top of bis speed. Imme? 
diately on returning, a hot liquor 
is prescribed, in order to proluote 
the perspiration, of which he must 
drink one English pitit. It is 
termed the sweating liquor, and it 
composed of the following ingre- 
dients, viz. one ounce of carraway* 
seed j half an ounce of coriander- 
seed ; one ounce of root lifjuorice; 
and half an ounce of sugar-candy ) 
mixed with two bottles of cyder, 
and boiled down to ooe half. He 
is then put to bed in his flannels, 
and being covered with six or eight 
pairs of blankets, and a feather- 
bed^ roust remain in this state from 
twenty •five to thirty minutes, when 
be is taken out and rubbed per- 
fectly dry. Being then well wrapt 
in his great coat, he walks oat 
gently for two miles, and returns 
to breakfast, which, on such oc- 
casions, should consist of a roasted 
fowl. lie afterward% proceeds 
with his usual exercise. These 
sweats are continued weekly, till 
within a few days of the perform- 
ance of the match, or, in other 



* It is not so generally known as it ought to be, that a salt, intro- 
duced into medical practice by Dr. George Pearson of London, is as 
excellenjt a purge as Glauber*s salt, and has none of tlie nauseous taste 
which renders that purge so disagreeable to many persons. The P^<w- 
phat of Soda h vexy similar to common salt in taste, and may be giveft * 
VI, a basin of gruel or broth, in which it will be scarcely peroejptible to 
^hji.palate, and will also agree with the most delicate stomach. 

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yvotds, he mast qndeifgotbtee wc 
four of thes/3 Qpe|:«tious. If tUe 
stomach o£ die pedpstrifia be foiil^ 
an emetic or two auist he giv«p, 
about a iveek before tbe c^Ojciusion 
of the traioing, aad be is now 
supposed to be iu the higher coo^ 
dJrioo. 

Besides his usual or regulftr 9Xr 
ercise, 'a j^erson under uai|iiog-<j 
ought tojemploy himself in the in* 
tervals in every liind of exertion, 
3whicb tends to activity, such as 
cricket, bowls, tbtowiog (pioita, 
:&c. that, during the whole day, 
both body and mind m»y be coa- 
statttly occupied. 

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NATURAL HISTORY OF THE 
ORKl!ji:Ey ISLANDS, 



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f Continued Jrom page 160. J 



RINGTAIL EAGI.B. 

npHE great charactei's wbji^b cMs- 
tingiiish this from otUejr species 
of eagles are, a large .broad band 
of white which encompasses the 
.root of the rail ; the legs^ which 
are feathered to the very feel 3 and 
. in aome, (which perhaps may he 
yoAing birds), the beaci is hoary. 
It is of a large sijBe, and very fre*- 
(pient in the hills, where it mai^s 
its nest in the rocks^ which is oftep 
(Placed within reach, and, when 
this is the case, ^Uvays becomes n 
prey to destruction. These birds 
are very strong, and make vast 
havock, (in breeding time espe- 
cially) among lambs, young and 
old swine, which they often de- 
stroy in tbje mountfiios, rabbits and 
poultry. A clergyman some time 
ago told me, he met with one of 
them mounted in the air, with a 
pretty large pig in her taloiis> 
Vol. XL!.— No. 245. 



which $he 4rQpt tf ve upon hi> 
firing at b«r. We h^y/e leveu ^ 
traditipn here of an p^gl^> haviog 
taken up ^ child UvP^ behind sqpp^^ 
reap<sr«, bj the parj^b qf 0rpbir, 
and c^rrUd it to her upsp ip Ijoy ^ 
but by th^ a^iduity of ^b^ pfOj^le, 
who immediately foUowefl ^e^^ tbf 
child was rescued unhurt. 

rrmr 

THB SBAWOW-HAWK. . 

Tqis Utile mischievous sp^^jf^ 
is found very coiximon in oqr f^^r 
rocks, as well a? iu the prec^pio^^ 
of the hills, wb^re it defends ijtji 
joest with great spirit agajnst aU 
intruders. I lately saw a ba^tl^ 
het»reen oQe of these jspeci^ 9a4 
the short-eared owl, wbich beg^n 
by the l|itter ^ppro^chioi too near 
the hawk's dominipns. Thehawfw 
had visibly the better, notwitlv- 
standifig the ^upfrior bulk of the 
others every stroke he gave tbp 
owl made him screiim out, whll/a 
he nimbly sivpided all harpi from, 
bis clunisier enemy, and who i^ 
the end was obliged to withdr^iy^ 
and leave him the calm pofs^ssioo. 
of what they fogght for. 

This species> ps weU^s thepext^' 
makes vast havock among pigeons f 
I have observed' it light anumg a 
flock, and drive them %fill several 
ways, seldom missipg one or othe^ 
of them. It, too, makes great de« 
strnction jaooong the smaller birds,, 
coursing them through the air like 
a little hoond, and, how soon it 
gets a proper opportunity^ one 
stroke finishes the contest; buC 
this is so severe, that a gentleman 
told me he observed one ^f this 
species knock down one of hjs 
pigeons, whiich he picked up, and 
found the entrails drove out of it by 
the force of the blow. 

It is woQcleri^ul to observe at 
what a distance the small birds 
know I;hi9 ^wk, and wHb wbi^t 

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imxiety tliey sbun him ; when pur* 
9ucfl often mnkiing themselves into 
more certain danger; bushes^ caves, 
houses, even the bosom ot' their 
general enemy, Man, is then an 
asyinni, thotigh often trying to 
«ave their lives, they more certainly 
lose them. 



THE SKIPS. 

• The Snipe continues with us the 
whole year; builds in the wet 
tnarshy hills, commonly in a tuft 
of rushes, where it lays from four 
to sik, (I have seen the latter num- 
ber several times) eggsj in win- 
ter shifts as well as it can about 
'the sea and spring-heads which are 
'not frozen. 

Though small, is very good eat- 
ing, birt seldom al>ove one seen in 
one place. 

In summer it makes an odd 

dnunming noise in the air, which 

'our country folks take for a sign 

V of rain ; at this time it is at a 

'great height in the air> flying back- 

• wards and fo inwards near the place 

of its neat ; at other times its cry 

is a short shrill ^^histling ; when 

•hastily sprung, a hoarse scream. 



THE RED-THROATED DIVER. 

The llain-goose, as it is hete 
* called, continues with us the whole 
'seasoH } builds on the very edge. 
/>f a lake in the hills of Hoy ; lays 
two eggs ; its nest placed so as it 
can sHp from it tnto the water, as 
it tan neither stand nor walk at 
'land, hut can niake very cjuick 
•way in tli« water j flies well, and 
commonly Very high 5 makes a vast 
howling, and sometimes croaking 
noise, which our country folks say 
' prognosticates rain, whence its 
name, with the addition of goose 3 
' and li«re it is worth while to re- 
mark anent tlfe provincial names 
•f biiHls, every large gwimming bird 



it called goose, with some other 
vliitiiiguisbingepitbet, thus, ember- 
goose iV>r the great-diver, dunter- 
goose for the eider-duck, rain- 
goose for the above, &c. 

The male and female of tbi» 
species are constant companions. 
1 have observed this whole season 
a couple of them which build in 
Hoy, and have made the harbour 
of Stroroness their haunt, to come 
every night thither about six or 
seven o'clock, seldom sooner or 
later, and immediately betake 
themselves to fishing for about an 
hour, when they withdraw to the 
same place they came from. — 
These birds have a vast liking to 
one another; lYone is shot, the 
other may be seen hovering about 
the place for some days, and, often 
venturing too near in its search, 
shares the same fate. It is then 
very pitiful to consider the wistful 
looks the survivor casts around it, 
to see for its faithful mate, and 
with what anxiety it swims round 
and round, still keeping its eye on 
the place where it was taken on 
shore ; but this is in some measure 
'to be observed in others of the 
swimnving birds in breeding-time, 
• though not so much as in this; 
however, 1 have observed a male 
goosander, when the female was 
-shot, continue a long while near 
the same place, probably still ex- 
pecting his mate. 

This is a very beautiful bird; 
the male has his head adorned with 
fine stripes of dusky and white, 
which run down his neck alter- 
nately; the back a dusky gray; 
the wings spotted with white; 
them are small, sharp, and placed 
far back on the body j the throat 
reddish ; the belly white j the feet 
placed far Ijack ; the. legs thin like 
the back of a kni^e, good for no- 
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for swimtning $ the fcet> when the 
•ti'ake M given, extend to their 
whole hreadth, but when it is to be 
fetched these fold up and become 
little thicker than the leg. AIL 
parts of these birds are excellently 
fitted for making their way through 
the water with great speed ; the 
head is taper, the bill small, he. 
but this is so excellently described 
by the pious author of the Wisdom 
of God in the Creation, that I. 
shall give it in his own words :•*- 
*' The bodies of the colymbi, 
duckers, or loons, are admirably 
fitted and conformed for diving 
under water, being covered with 
▼ery thick plumage, and the super- 
ficies of their feathers so smooth 
and sli])pery, that the water can- 
not penetrate or moisten them, 
whereby their bodies are defended 
from the cold, the water being kept 
at a distance, and so poised that 
by alight impulse they may easily 
ascend in it ; then their feet are 
eituated in the hindmost part of 
the body, whereby they are enabled, 
shooting their feet backwards, and 
striking the water upwanls, to 
plunge themselves down into it 
with great facility, and likewise 
to move forwards therein; then 
tUeir legs are made fiat and broad^ 
aud their feet cloven into toes^ 
with appendant membranes oq 
each side, by which configura- 
tion they easily cut the water, 
and are drawn forward, and so 
take their stroke backwards ^ and 
besides, I conceive, that by means 
of this figure, their feet being 
moved to the right and left band, 
serve them as a rudder tqi enable 
them to turn under water, for 
some conceive that they swim 
easier under water than they do 
above it. How they raise them*- 
V selves up again, whether their bo- 
dies QUutfQt of theittB^lfes by their 



lightness, or whether 1>y striking 
against the bottom in the manner 
of a leap, or by some peculiar mo- 
tion of their legs, 1 cannot deter •» 
mine. That they dive to t^e bot- 
tom is clear, for that in the stom- 
achs, both of the greater and {esser 
kind, we have found both grass 
and other weeds, and in the lesser 
kind nothing else, though both 
prey upon iish. Their bills a/e 
made i&trait and sharp, for the 
easier cutting the water, and strik-, 
ing their prey. Could we see the. 
motions of their legs and feet in 
the water, then we should better 
comprehend how they ascend, de- 
scend, and move to and fro, and 
disceru how wisely and artificially, 
their membranes are formed and. 
adapted to those uses."— Fide fiery '« 
IVisd, of God. 

It is probable they easily rise 
from the bottom, by their bodies 
being specifically lighter than the 
water i and, as a proof of this, 1 
have often observed them labour 
much more in going down than 
coming up ; both wings and legs 
were exerted to the utmost, but 
wh?n they rose both seemed at 
rest. 



THE SKVA. 

This Gull we have not in Ork- 

r 

ney, iieither had 1 ever an o))por- 
tunity of seeing it till last summer 
I met with it in Foula, an island 
to the westward of the Shetland 
Isles. 

As I approached the summits of 
the high niountains, I came near 
the skua's quarters, which are af- 
fixed on the v^ery peaks. 1 no 
sooner approached but I was at- 
tacked with so great fury, that 
every one of those who were with 
roc, as well as myself, were obligecl 
to do him obeisance at every stroke. 

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He h^i T&fdbg kutfteVfi>vit oftht 
pit, uM6m\ith thIAtBe was obliged 
to rail ttt kmotig our legs fbr s£el- 
tttj ahd- ^rotild not \k forced ont 
ag'idh, ^r tbonj^h bofiiie (as he is 
h«re called), bad soihe regard f<9r 
us Wbite= w^ kept together, on bim 
he Biid n6 niercyi every whip he 
fetched him made his owfi inngs 
crack, ahd tfie dog er6uch into the 
hollo Ws 6f the moor, til> We came 
lip and relied him. 1 followed 
one of tbemt6 some distance from 
the r^ #hibh mAde me piirt good 
<;on/paby, lind received some very 
rude salutes for my imprudence 
ffotn khtee of these birds that made 
^t hie wi^b the utmost rage. I 
defended myself the b^t way I 
could with my gun, fired severaT 
times at fhem, hut, as none drop- 
ped, the report did not startle them 
In the lea^, rather seembd to en- 
rage them the more. When the 
ifibbhitants are iookihg after their 
fitieep on the hills, the skua often 
attacks tbehi in such h UiaUner 
that fhey are obliged to defend 
themselves with cudgels held above 
their heads, on Which it often kills 
itself. 

The method of life is much \hle 
same as in the parasitic gull (our 
former species), only this attacks 
the larger kind of gulls as the other 
<!oes the lesser. By the mdst mi- 
nUte inquiry, ^ouM tiot find that 
ft evfer raeddfed either wKh its con- 
geners or others tb destroy them. 
Its fury seems more defensive than 
offensive. When we meet it at sea 
jt seems to he a stupid like bird, 
and often swims "Within ati oar*s 
length of the boat. 

In FoUla this is a'privflegekl bird, 
no man will nor dare shoot it, un- 
der the periallty tff itxteen sbilKngs 
and eight pence sreiling, rt6r de- 
'fstroy its eg'gs. When they meet 
it at sea whatever fish tbey bate 



In ih€ Ubat skua aiWayl p 
ahd all this out of gratf^drfor 
beating otf the eagle, who dares 
not vetif u^6 to prey on tbe isfctod 
during the breed lug ^ason. Sknst, 
indeed j is not so strong as the for- 
mer^ but much mol-e Dtmble, strikea 
at him without mercy with such 
effect that he makels the eagle ifoar 
aloud, and his retreat is so sudden 
Hi to avoid all danger from his 
clnAfisi^r antagonist. 

I asked particidarty wbether 
skua did not Sometimes pay him- 
self for defending their ^oeks, by 
taking a lamb now and tiien> but 
one and all assui^ mie thev had 
never seen or heard of a single in-f 

stance of his doing so. 
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MALTON COURSING MEET- 
ING, 1813. 

nrenS Meeting, which the seve- 
rity of the weather in November 
last dehyed so much beybnd the 
time, that a Meetli^g could scarce- 
ly be formed, and Which at length 
only produced the att^dance of a 
few members, was near sharing 
the saitae f^te iti February, by a 
frost preventing mauy persons froni 
attetidiMg ; ht last, hoWei^er, 6n th« 
isighth of February, instead of the 
first, a Meeting Was lobtained,' and 
the greyhounds for the €«^ bekig 
drawn on the Moudajr, Were tuo^as 
under t ' 

Tuesday, Peb. '9. 

FOk 'rHE GUP — FIKST GLASS.. 

Sit-'FV^iTCls Boynton*sbl. aftd w. 
d. Hah^llMn, tjieftt Mt. Hal^ritfon'^ 
White bitch, Cora. 

Majtrtr TopB'aiii''s Wa<?k dogv 
liochinvfir, heat Major BoFWer*« 
black hUcfc, Beauty. 

M ajdr'T6pl&ttte*S ^d b. Lights 

ning. 



T9]£ SPOftTID^G mLQAtmK 91^ 

mB^ beat Major. Bower's - black BoymoD*s.brtiuL d. Smoker* beat 

iha^f Young Black Boy. • Major Bottrec's black dog^ Yowag 

Major Bower's bl. aud w. bitcb^. Blackboy. 

Boanly, beat Sir F. Boyoton »blk.' Post Matcb, booa fide.— Sir F. 

aud w. d. Turn. Boyoton^s bl. b. Miqk^ beat Major 

MATCHES. Bower's bl. d. Bliakard. 

tdit Matdb.^-Sir T. SKng^y J'^at Match, bona fide— Major 

paid forfeit to Mr. Best. Bower's blk. d. Bailiff, beat Sir F. 

Post Match.— Sir T. Slingshy Boynton's bl. aiidw.d. Turn, 

jfald forfeit to Mr; Bwt. ^^^ Matcb, bona .fide.— Mr. 

Post Match, booa fide.— Sir P. Thprold iorfit to Mr. Best. 

Bbynton'^ brindkd dog. Smoker, ^««^ Matcb, bona fide.— Mr, 

agst Major Bo^^r's hi. d. Yoong Thorold forfit to Mr. Best. 

Blackboy.-^-Undecided. Mr. Harrison's blk. d. Bachelor, 

Poit Matcb, bona fide.— Major ^^at Sir T. Slingsby's blk. dog. 

Bov^tT's bl. d. Biirtktird, beat Sir Chance. 

F. Boynton's hi. h. Miss. Mr. Harrison's w. bitch, Cora, 

Post Match, bona fide.-^Major *>eat Sir T. Slingshy s black bitch. 

Bower's hi. d. JaUiff, bfeat Sir F: ^T>«nt. 

Boynton's bl. end w. d. Eagle. Mr. Thorold's blk. b. FTy, beat 

Post Match, bona fide.^Sir F. Mr. Harrison's blk. atid w. b. Fly. 

Bovf/toD heat SirT. Sliugsby. Mr. Thorold's w. b. Venus, beat 

Pbst Match, bona fide.^Sir F ^i»" ^' Boynton^s brindled dog, 

Boynton beat 9it T. Slingsby. Smoker. 

- The day %as Very tempstwous H^or Bower's blk. b. Black 

imd extrtkordfbrfry, as «otlie of . the Maid, beat Sir F. Boynton's blk. k 

coursed #tere nid amidst storms of Minx. 

ban, thtmdter, and lightning, a cir^ Mr. Harrison's blk. d. Bachelor, 

tun^ante nOt often seen in the ^^^ ^i^ T. Shngsby's bl. and w.d. 

itiidifle of winter; notwtthstand^ Dannwa. 

ing whicb the couttiefe w%re Very Sir F. Boynton's blk. b. Miss, 

fine ones, and some of them of great V^at Major Bowei^s black bitch, 

length. Beauty. 

. • . .. Miijor Topbam's bitch Lighter 

-m^i-o^^i V^h 11 ning would, in all probability, have 

Thursday, Feb. 11. ^^^ ^^ ^^p ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ 

FOii TH» quF. — SBpoND CLASS. hare« before she could be taken up^ 

Major Tbpham*6r.b. Lightning, and was, when she started for the 

%eat JHii|or Bower*s bi. nnd w. b. Cup, so weak she was scarcely able 

BOutity. to stand. 

Sir F. Bbynton's bl. and w. d. A number of Matches were made 

Batbikoti, beat Major Topbam's for the ensuing NoTcmber. 

bl. d. liocbinvar. ■«■■' • ■* i .i. i . ■■ . , . ■ ..^i ■■ 

c». ^ %%^^^^ thkss. THE ILLITERATE BtJT iNGfc- 

Su- F. Boynton's bl. ^nd W. d. NIOUS ROBBER. 

Hamilton, beat Major Topham^ , 

r. b. Lightning. .A Gentleman, one evening pretty 

MATCHES.. late, passing over the Pont 

Pott Matcb, bona fide. — Sir F, Keufj in Paris, with a lantern in 

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his hand^ was accosted by a strange 
man in a manner rather polite and 
Seemingly suppliant, who request- 
ed him to read a paper^ which he 
said he had that moment picked 
np, and did not know btit what it 
might be of conssquence : the gen- 
tleman in holding up his lantern, 
JD order to read the paper, had 
likewise an opportunity of surrey- 
inf; the person and features of the 
man who had accosted him, which 
lie did with some attention. 

In the paper he found a ftw 
Hmes, which I have translated as 
literally as the idiom of the two 
languages would admit. 

Speak not a word when this youVe read» 

Or ia an instant you'll be dead ; 

Give up your monev, watch, and dngs. 

Or other valuable things : 

Depart then quickly aa you will. 

Only remember silence stilL 

Tlie gentleman considering his 
situation, and the purport of the 
threat contained in the paper, 
thought it most prudent to con- 
tinue silent, and to act as it di- 
rected. He accordingly delivered 
his watch, rings, &c. but at the 
same time renewed his survey of 
the person to whom he gave them 3 
and was so minute in his scrutiny, 
that he fan(;ied he could at any 
time swear to him. 

The man was soon apprehended 
for a riot ; and, on his way to the 
justice, was perceived by the gen- 
tleman to whom he bad presented 
the paper, who accorapanied-^him 
to the Magistrate, and exhibited 
an account of the before-mentioned 
ciecurrences against h i m. He was^ 
for want of proper proof respecting 
the riot, acquitted of the affair j 
hut was sent to prison on account 
of the gentleman's accusation. 

When he was brought to the 
bar to take his trial, he appeared 
quite unconcerned, and pleaded 



not guilty, with the greatwt «»' 
fidence) the gentleman, who wa*' 
the only witness that could be pro- 
duced, swore positively to the 
fact, and to the identity ef his per- 
son. 

When he came to make his 
defence, he thus addressad the. 
Bench :— 

" My Lords, I confess, on the 
evening specified 1 did meet the 
gentleman on Pont Neuf, and the 
transaction as he related it very 
exactly passed between tts ; but in 
the affair 1 am very far from liav- 
ing been guilty of any ill intent 
tion. It is mv n^isfortune not to 

.r 

be able to read 3 1 picked up tbe 
pajier just before I met the gentle* 
man ; I thought perhaps it might 
be of consequence. Seeing |he 
gentleman, and judging from his 
appearance that he might be able 
to read ; observitif likewise the 
conveniency of bis having a lan- 
tern in his hand, 1 requested that 
he would do me the favour to 
read the pa|)er— he complied'^ 
and after reading it to himself^ to 
my great surprise, he put hiaribgs, 
watch, and mqney into my bands ; 
I was so astonished that I bad 
not the power to inquire into 
the contents of the pa|)er, or to 
follow him for an explanation of 
his actions. Afterwards, on re- 
flection, I inMgined^ the paper 
«nust have been ^f great value, and 
that he must .have given me his 
rings, watch, and money, 'to get 
rid of mc, and' to keep to himself 
what was fat: tnove conskieralile 
in worth. Thus, if any one hath 
been wronged, I think it is my- 
self, and 1 hope justice will be done 
me." 

By this hold and artful defence, 
and the notoriety of his not hav- 
ing made any formal demand on 
the gentleman, he got off, lor he 

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w«9 acqnttted, though th« whok 
.Court was cooscioiis of his being 
the guilty person. 



COURTS MARTIAL, 



ON 



f FFIC£ES OF THE 8jth REGI- 
MENT. 



YHl 



C following are the results of 
two Courts Martial^ held lately 
on OflScers of the 85th foot. It 
may be pro))er to add, that in con- 
sequence of the numerous Courts- 
Martial, irregularities, and divi- 
sions, which took place in this re- 
giment, the otficcrs, of every rank. 
Lave been removed to different 
corps, and an entire new set of of- 
ficers appointed. 



Copy of a Letter addressed by Field- 
Marshat his Royal Highness the 
Commander in Chief, to Lieute- 

[ nant' Generalthe Earl of Rosslyn^ 
or General Officer commanding 

. the Kent District, dated Horse- 
Guards, Nov, 14, 18 f 2. 

Mr LoRO,--Having laid before 
tlie Prince lie geut, the proceedings 
<rf a General Court Martial, held 
«t Uythe, on the 4th of September, 
1812, and continued by ailjourn- 
fflCDU to the Ist of October fbl- 
lo\vinj(, for the trial of Captain 
John Hykon, of the 85th regiment 
o^ foot, who was arraigned upon 
the UDdernientioDetl charges, viz. 

1 . For scandalous conduct, h igh- 
ly unbecoming the character of an 
officer ami a gentleman, in having 
«>aliciou8ly asserted, in the pre.- 
seoceot Lieutenant James Grant, 
I^rieutenant and Adjutant John 
Connor, and other officers of the 
65th regiment of foot, in Portugal, 
«ome time between the Ist of June 
Jwd 31st o^ July, 1811, that the 



late Lieutenant Lewis Apfclius* 
of the 15th regiment of foot, had 
jMiUed Major Nicholal Alexander 
Mein, of the same regiment, by the 
nose, and kicked him, XMajor 
Mein), or words to that effect; 
and in having afterwards, at Silver- 
hill Barracks, in Sussex, between 
the 12th and 18th of Octoher, 
.181 1, denied ever making such as- 
.sertious to any person whatever, in 
presence of Captain John Gordon^ 
of the 2d, (or Queen's Royal) regi- 
ment of foot, who had been sent 
hy Major Mein to inquire if he 
(Captain Hylton) had propagated 
the above calumny; and farther* 
by making a similar denial to Ma* 
jor Mein in person, between the 
12th and 18th of October, 1811, 
adding, that whoever had given 
Major Mein information that he 
(Captain Hylton) had made such 
assertionsi had told a direct false- 
hood, or to that effect. 

2. For scandalous conduct* 
highly unbecomiug the character 
of an officer and a gentleman,, ia 
maliciously and falsely asserting^ 
to Lieutenant Wm. Gammell, and 
other officers of the 85th regiment, 
some time between the 1st Febru«" 
aryand 1st of December, 1812, At 
Brabourne Lees Barracks, Kent, 
that Lieutenant and Adjutant Con- 
nor, of the same regiment, had had 
his nose pulled, and his posteriors 
kicked, or words to that effect, and 
making similar assertions in Por- 
tugal, to an officer or officers of 
the same regiment, some time be- 
tween the 1st June ami 31st of 
July, 1811; and also, in having 
in his possession, and shewing 
a paper to Captain Frederick 
Campbell, of the same regiment^ 
stating the same unfounded ca- 
lumny, such expressions and as- 
sertions of his. Captain (then Lieu- 
tenant) Hylton's, being infamous 

false- 



idJMiflioiSf eft^ihiglify ppejtidknflA ^t«)^ bctwc^ the ttt of Septfett* 

io Lietftenafit add Adjutant Con^ ber and £0(b of Nov^mber^ 1810, 

»or*t cbaraeter^ Btid ii^arioiis to atBrabourncLeesBmriicJis, Kent, 

the bavnony of the 6Sth regiment, wbeu he (the said Joseph Taylor) 

3. For 'highly unoAceMtko con- and Captain (then Lieuteuant) 

dtoct^ in falsely and maliciously as- Uyltoo^ severally koocked each 

verting^ between the let of June other down, such conduct being 

And 3 1st of July, 181 i, tn Fbrtu- known to the non-commissioned 

^al, that he (Captain Hyiton, then officers and men of the 8:5th regf- 

l«ieute«a|it) had caHght Lieute- ment^ and highly injurious to Cap- 

«ant and AcKtitant Connor impro- ILain Hyltoo's character as an al&- 

^f4y Ustemng at his (Captain cer and a gentleman, subversive fif 

Hykon's) window, or words to good order and military dbcipline 

that ettect, with a view of de- m the 85th -regiment of foot, and 

aCroying tine said Lieotenant and contrary to the established rules of 

AAjUtapt Connor*s character as an the service. 

4ijflt<2er iind e gentleman, and pre- Upon which charges the Court 

judicial to the harfooUy of ' the came to the following decision : — 

*ai<l 86th regiment. The Court having most pfiature- 

4.'¥orbigWy im]>roper and un- ly deliberated upon, and most at- 

4»IRcer->like coiMtuct in asserting to tentively weighed and considered 

linBign Donald Rol>ertson, ami the whole of the evidence and mat- 

4>tb€r oftcers of the same regi- ter that has been broggjit iorward 

fimnt, €kt Brebourne Lees Bairacks, in support of the prosecution, to- 

Kent, sonietmie between the 1st gether with what the prisoner has 

^f M»y and Ist of December, 1 810, offered ip his defence, is of opinion, 

«h»t Lieutenant Richard White, with respect to the first charge, 

of ^»b€ seme Tegi men t, was a cow- that he, the prisoner, is not ^\xi\tY 

.♦nl, or words to that effect, and in of the same, a];id the Court ioii% 

^making similar assertions atCampo therefore acquit him. Captain 

Jfaior> in Portugal, to softie offi- J4»hn Mylton, of the said charge; 

cers of the 65th regiment of foot, in preferring which. the prosecute* 

^9onie time between the 23d June ^ioes .not apjieaf to h^ve been acc«- 

■mii\ (20th of J«ly, 1811, and tor rfited by any improper motive, <« 

positively denying iiaving made -the miscooception of the prisoner's 

stich ««s«*tiofis before a Regimen- uiodeof expi'ession gave rise to the 

tal Conrt of Inijuvry, in the garri- ^charge. 

'•on at H y the, 47et ween the 8th Tbi^Oourt arc of opinion, that 

-amlWth of July, 1812, andin as- the prisoner. Captain John Hyl- 

-sociating w^th the feaid Lrieutenant ton, is guilty of the second charge 

-Richard White, in the habrts of exhibited against him. 

•friendiy intimacy, subsefjuently to The Comt are of opinion, that 

.having made the above assertions, the prisoner. Captain John Hyl- 

'aoch conduct being highly inju- ton, is not • guilty of the third 

• rious to the cfstablished rules of the charge preferred against him, aud 

service, and su-bversive of good or- the Court doth therefore acquit 

der and military discipline. him, the prisoner, of the same. 

S. For disgracefully boxing with The Court are farther of Qpi- 

Serjeant Joseph Taylor, of the nion, that the prisoner, Captain 

iSth regiment of foot (now a pri- John Hylton, is not guilty of the 

first 



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V 

first part of tbe fourth cbargcexhi- of tbe fourth chargt^.the Coutt 

bited a^inst bim, uamelj, bighty <k>th sentence bim, the aftnesald 

improper and uooflicer-like con- Ca))tain John Hyhon^ to be <:«« 

duct in asserting to Ensign Do- sbiered. 

naM Robertson, and otbe^ officers The Court b%ve not fntled to Ve* 
of the same regiineot, at Bra- , mark the imtpablefd^i^ehoodsublch 

tionrne Lees Barracks, Kent, some the wrhness Joseph Taylor has h^u 

time between the 1st of M«y and guilty of, ami vvhkn seemed to 

1st of December, 1810, that Lieu- have afibnled the gioVaul^ ff^r the 

tenant R. White of the same regi- fifth charge against Captain tlyl* 

ment, was a coward^ or words to ton ; and they reg!*et that it does 

that effect, and in making a simt- not a))|>ear to theni they hnve suf;^ 

)ar assertion at Campo Maior, in ficient jurisdiction to punish tb^ 

Portugal, to some officers of the said Joseph Taylor for his evident 

85tb foot, between the 23d June prevarications and false assertions, 

and the 20th July, 1811, and the The Court consider It neccs^ttry 

Court doth therefore acquit him of to explain their terdict ridative tt 

the same ; but the Court are of opi^ the fourth charge : their intention 

niou, that he^ Captain John Hyl- is to acquit the prisoner^ Captain 

ton, is guilty of the latter parts of John Ilylton, of highly improper 

the fourth charge, namely, posi- conduct, in ads«Ttittg to Knslgii 

tjvely denying having made any Donald' Robertson, &c. &c. j hut 

such assertion before a Regimen- the Court do not ac(|uit him of as- 

tal Court of Inquiry, in the garri- serting. — ^Therefore there exists no 

son at Ilythe, which Court was cotitradiction in their finding . the 

held between the &th and 14(h of prisoner guilty on the latter parts 

June, 1812, (instead of the 8th of the said charge, relative to his 

and 14th July, 1812, as set forth denial of having maUe the a»ser- 

by mistake in the special warrant tion before the Court of Inquiry 

containing the charge), and in as- alluded to in' the fourth chargei 

sociating with the said Lieutenant and in his associating with the said 

R. White in the habits of friendly Lieutenant White on terms of 

intimacy, subsequent to having friendlyintimacyaftc^ having made 

made the above assertions, such such assertions, kc. 

conduct being highly injurious to ] am to acquaint your Lordship 

the established rules of the service, that his Royal Illghucss was 

and subversive of good order and 'p1ease<l, in the name and on the 

military discipUoe. behalf of bis Majesty, to approva 

The Court are of opinion, that and confirm the finding and ten- 

the prisoner. Captain John Hyl- teuce of the Court, 

ton, is not guilty of the fifth Your Lordship will therefore 

charge preferred against him, and acc[naint me with the day on which 

the Conrt doth therefore acquit tbe Prince Regent's pfeanure is 

liim, the prisoner, of tbe said made to tbe prisoner, Capt, llyl* 

charge. ton, as from that day he will cea^e 

From tbe culpability of tbe pri- to receive pay in bis Majesty's ser* 

soner*s conduct, on such jiarts of vice, 

tbe charges as tbe Court have 1 am, my Lord, yonr^s, 

found bim gtiilty, viz. the whole (Signed) Fxedeiick, 

of tbe second and tbe latter parts Commander is Chief. 

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Copjf of a liiUr addressed hy Pieldr 

Marshal his Jtoml Highness the 

Commander in thief, to Lieute-' 

n^t-Generalihe BarlqfRosslyn, 

or General Officer commanding 

the Kent District, dated Horst^ 

Guards, Nov, 14, 1812. 

My Lord, — Having laid before 

the Prince Regent the proceedings 

of a Cfeneral Court Martial, held 

at Hythe ob the 22d of October, 

1812, and continued by adjourn- 

pients to the 3CHb of the same 

inontb, for the trial of Lieutenant 

£dward Powell, of the 85th r^i- 

ttient pf foot^ who was arraigned 

upon the under-mentioned charge, 

▼iz. 

For highly improper and dis- 
graceful conduct, unbecoming the 
character of an officer a«d a gen- 
tleman, ID having entered into a 
personal contest with Mr. Henry 
Knight, (then an Ensign in the 
85th regiment), by repeatedly 
Striking and receiving blows with 
n. horse- whip from the said Mr. 
Henry Knight, at the Ship Inn, 
in New Romney, on or about the 
evening of the 2l8t July, 1812. 

Upon which charge the Court 
came to the foUowing decision : 

The Court having most mature- 
ly deliberated upox), and most at- 
tentively weighed and considered 
the whole of the evidence, and 
matter adduced in support of the 
prosecution, together with what 
the prisoner hath ofered in his de- 
fence, is of opinion, that he. Lieu- 
tenant £dward Powell, 85 th regi- 
ment of foot, or Bucks volunteers, 
is not guilty of the charge pre- 
ferred against him ; for it hath 
clearly appeared to the Court, that 
he did not enter into a personal 
contest with Mr. Henry Knight, 
hut, on the contrary, that his (the 
prisoner's) conduct on the occa- 
f\Qt\ alluded to, w^s perfectly ^oq« 



sktent with propriety and the de« 
meanour of a gentleman, until be 
received so gross and violent per- 
sonal assault, that his retaliation 
in striking the said Mr. Henry 
Knight with a horse-vvhip was 
;qo thing more than sudden resent- 
ment and irritation might have, 
and did occasion. The Court doth 
therefore fully and honourably ac- 
quit him (the prisoner) q( all and 
every part of the charge. 

I am to acquaint your Lordship, 
that bis Koyal Highness was gra- 
ciously pleased, in tbe name aud on 
the behalf of his Majesty, to ap< 
prove and confirm the finding an^ 
sentence of the Court. 
I am, &c. 

(Signed) pReoERiCK^ 

Commander in Cbief. 

■ iW MUM I I ■' t 'I I I . ■ I - 

LOUTH COURSING MEET- 
ING. 

TUESDAY, FEB. 9. 

Dogs drawn to run for the Cup, 

lyfR. Walker's red and white dog. 
Traveller, beat Mr. Chatter- 
ton's brindled dog. Pilot. 

Mr. Cartwright*b red and white 
dog Rolla, beat Mr. Thos. Grant's 
white dog^ Nelson. 

Mr. Meredith's dun dog, Rolla, 
beat Mr. Carnlcy's red dog. Co- 
met. 

Mr. Simpson's brindled dog, 
Dart, beat Mr. Clay worth's tanned 
dog, Horatio. 

Mr. Cbaplin*s white dog. Rapid, 
beat Captain Norcott's black and 
white dog, Strntt. 

Mr. Jones's red and white dog. 
Diamond, beat Mr. Oldham's 
brindled dog, Castor. 

Mr. Walls's bhie and white dog, 
Smooker, beat Mr. Eve's blue dog, 
Jasda». 

Mr. 



THB SPQETING MAOAZINS. ^^ 

' Mr. Bowman's red dog, Tartar, red and white .bitcb, Helen ^ one 

jKeat Colonel King*s blue dog, guinea. 

George. , Mr. Simpson's Atkn bitch, J1y> 

■■■ ' l}eat Mr. Tnoinas Grant's dun dog^ 

TBUMBAY, FEB. 11. ^^^^^^D dne gbifiea. 

^ , , ^ , ^ Mr. Meredith 8 tanned doff, Ho* 

l>o-« dr<wm to run for th€ Cup. ,.^tlo, against Mr. Chapliil's red 

Mr. Bowman's red dog, Tartar, and ivhite hitcli. Transit^ due |;uiv. 

heat Mr. Jones's red and white dog, nea. — Undecided. 

I>iamond. Mr. Eve's black bitch. Fly, beak 

Mr. Simpson's brindled dog, Mt Walls's blue bitch. Mousey 

Dart, heat Mr. Cartwright's rfed one gciinea. 

^nd white dog, Rolla. Mr. Walls*s rerf bitchy Daiaty> 

Mr. Walker's red ^nd white dog, against Mn Chaplin** red and 

Traveller, beat Mr. Walls's blufe white bitch, Tricketj two guinea^, 

mnd white dog, Smooker. Undecided. 

Mr. Chaplin's white dog, Rapid, Mr. Richardson's black dog, 

he-At Mr. Meredith's dun dog. Racer, beat Mr. Thomas Grant's 

Rolla. whitedog, Nelisonj two guineas. 

MATCHES. M^' Richardson*8 dun bitch. 

Col. king's black bitch. Stark, Mouse, against Mr. Wm. Cai»t* 

^eat Mr. Chaplin's white dog, .^right's black and white bitch, 

vRacer 5 two guineas. Nee<lle: one guinea.— -Undecided. 

Mr. Thomas Grant's red and Col. King^s black dog, Starjt^ 

white bitch, Helen, against jNir. againit Mr. Chaplin's white bitch, 

Chaplin's dun and white bitch, Tnppettj three guineas.— Unde* 

Tricksey j one guinea,-^Unde- cided. 

^2i)ed. Mr. Richardson's black dog,' 

Mr. Thomas Grant's red and Herod, against Mr. Eve's red dog, 

white bitch, Helen, beat Mr. l>octor5 one guinea.— Undecided. 

Meredith's black bitch. Nimble) . Mr. William Cartwright's red 

one guinea. mtch. Easy, heat Mr. Cranley's red 

' ~ dog, Comet J one guinea. 

'''' Mr. Richardson's black dog, Rtt« 

SATURX>AY, FEB* l3. (f^n^ beat Mr. Thomas Grant's 

Dags drawn to run for th^ Cup. ^"" ^^S' ^^"^ > ^"^ 5"^"^^- 

Mr. Meredith's dun dog, Rolla, ^%^^ ""^/Ift '^^ ?^ . , 

•u . Tk/r at ' u :.. jLj ji^J Mr. Bowman s red dog, Tartar, 

Dart. ^^ ' ^"^ ^^'' Meredith's din dog, 

Mr. Bowman's red dog, Tartar, ^^^**- 

beat Mr. Walker** red and whitfe _ 
dog. Traveller. 

MATCHES. EXTRAORDINART DffSTAKCES 

Mr. Chaplin's dun and white of SAOACITt'IN DOOS, 

bitch, Tricksey, beat Mr. Walls's — ^^ / 

tanned hitch. Blossom; five gui- *MO species of information is re* 

neas. ceiveil more generally, and 

<Mr. Simpspn's btindled bitch, with greater pleasure, than natural ^.^ 

ViiQUL V«9t Mr< QQiomas (S^rantts history, particularly tbe history of 



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infeHor animals. VVe are delight* 
ed fo observf) tbe superioiity of the 
liunian luind to tbe ^est of tbe crer 
ation, and witb a couscious pride 
^wc belipld instinct using its utmost 
efforts in vaio, to emulate tbe ope- 
jatiqns^of reason. Hence it comes, 
that we are most surprised and (Wt 
jigbted with t^ose actions of ani- 
mals^ that apprpach nearest tbe 
kctions of man, 'Tbe bird that 
sip^, the parrot that chatters, and 
tb^ monkey that nriimin^ our ges- 
tures, all obtain a pe^tiliar place ia 
our regard. But those animaU 
wbo discover a sagacity approach-* 
jug to , reason, are our favourites -^ 
the. horse and cat, and above all« 
the (log, is our friend and com- 
ipanipn.., Tbis last animal emulates 
not only tbfc^ental powers of man, 
but even spfne of.tbe bumfin virtues. 
The amajjiug sagacity of the dog, 
hjjjg;raUtude, his uush^iken fidelity, 
\but^^cute sense of shame which 
often betrays \\h faults, and con- 
scif^usues» of good xlesert.witb 



town residence, ^ogether with a fa« 
vourite house-dog, to some ser* 
vants, wbu were placed at board* 
wages* Tbedogsoou found boani 
wages very short allmvaiice, and 
to, make . op tbe <leficieacy, he had 
recoiii»se. to tbe kitchen of a friend 
of his master's, which- in latter 
days he had occasionally visited« 
By, a hearty* meal, which he re- 
ceived here daily, he was enabled 
to keep himself ia- good condition, 
till the -return of his master's. fa« 
mily to town, on tbe appcoach of 
winter. Though now restored tot 
the enjoyment of plenty at home, 
and standing in no need of foreign 
liberality, be did not forget tliat 
hospitable kitchen, where be bad 
found a resource in his adversity. 
A few days after, happening to 
saunter about the streets/ be f^l in 
with.a duck, which, as be.fotmd k 
in no private pond, he concluded 
to be no private pnnierty. He 
snatched up tbe ducfk in hrs teetb, « 
carried it to the kitchen where he 



which he^ comes to claim the re« had l^een so ho${)itahlf fed> Hiid ft 

yi«i;d of his services; all these cir- at the cook's feet, with many po- 

cumstances appr^xinmte very, near- lite movements of his tail, and tbeB 

Jy .to that which we observe in the scampered off With mueh seeming 

human character. These qualities, complacency, at having ghreu thn 



.together with his great utility for 
.va^iuus purposes, .have jendered 
nlm the constant atteiidant aud 
princi4;)al favourite of man. . Every 
anecdote that tencfs to elucidate 
the nature and powers of this very 
Superior ani mat, must be particu^ 
Jarly amusing and intei'esting to 



testimony of gmtitode and sense of 
favours." 

The" following anecdote is an 
tnStahce of that sagacity anil at- 
ta^ioient which so justly ccmtri- 
hute tO' make the dog our f aro^ 
rite:—** Those valleys, or glewt, 
as tliejr are called by the natives. 



nil the lovers of natural history, .wl^ieb intersect tbev Gr«mj)iaB 
Tite' fc^ttowing are c<^mp1etely au- mountains, are chiefly iuhabited 



thentic, wUicliJs, [veihaps, , one ,Qf 
nre"ilj*3t recoujmenjatious to an- 
ecdotes of this nature :-^** A gen- 
jJeman who u$i>a,Uy spent the ^f in*- 
ifX. months in the capital of North 
jHritaln, Jiaving^one with bis fa- 



by shepherds. The pastures, over 
which .each flock is'perfl(iitted to 
rang^ extend many miles in every 
diiectiq|i. The shepherd never has 
a view of his whole flock" at once, 
exQcpt ^hen they are collected f<^ 



mily to pa^s the summer at his 'the [uitposei of. sale, or i^hearinc. 
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>xturtiohs to the different extre- 
mities of his pastares, in succession, 
«nd to turn back, by means of bis 
'dogi any stragglers' that may be 
approaching the boundaries of his 
tieighboufs. In oae of theser ex- 
cursions, a sbeplierd happened to 
carry along with him one of his ehil- 
ttreti, an infant tthout three yean 
old. This is an- usaai practice 
among the^ Highlanders, who ac- 
custom their children from the 
earliest infancy to the- rigours of 
ihe climata After traversing his 
pastures for some time, attended 
by bis do^, the shepherd ibund 
himself muder the necessity of as<=- 
cehdtng a summifat some distance, 
to hiave a more extensive view of 
his range. As the ascent was too 
fatiguing for the child, be left him 
on a smalt pbin at the bottom, 
with strict injunctions not to stir 
from 4t tilt his return. Scarcely, 
itowever, had he gained the suoi- 
fnif, v^hen the horizon was sud- 
denly dsitkerted, by one of those 
im|Mnctrahle * mists, which fre- 
quently desfcend so rapidly amidst 
these mountarns, as in the space 
of a few minntes almost to turn 
the 'day to night. The anxious 
father immediately hastened back 
to find his child, but, owing to the 
uniisud darkness and bis owu tre- 
pidation, he- unfortunately missed 
his WHiy in the descent. Aft^r a 
fruitless research of many hours, 
amongst the dangerous morasses 
^ndi tataract^, with <\vfatch these 
-molawtains abotnid, he was at 
length overtaken by night. Still 
wrtnderrog on without knowing 
whitl^r, he at length came to the 
'v^rge of the mist, and, by the light 
of tl>e moon, discovered that he 
had reached the- bottom of his 
"vailiey, and was now within a shost 
distance of his cottage. To renew 
the search that nighty was ^equally 



fruitless and dangeroiiM, He was 
therefore obligef I to 'return to his 
cottage, having lost both his cbtkt 
and his dog, who had attended him 
faithfully for years. Next paorj^* 
ing> hy day-break, tlie shepherd^ 
accompanied by .a band of hi& 
neighbotus, set our in search of 
his child, but, after a day spent in 
fruitless fatigue, he waa at last 
compelled by the approach of night 
to descend fteu the mountain. 
•On returning to his cottage^ h« 
found that the dog which he had 
lost thv day - before, • had come 
homej and on receiving- a piece of 
cake, had instantly gone off agaia; 
For several successive days th« 
shepherd renewed the search for 
his child, and still on retunitng. 
home in the evening to his cottage, 
he found that the dog had been 
home, and, on receiving his usual 
allowance of cake had disappeared* 
Struck with this singular circum- 
stance, he remained- at home oim 
day, and when the dog as usual 
departed with bis piece of cake, he 
resolved to foUb'w him, and find 
Qut the cause of bis strange pro« 
cedure. The dog led the way to 
a cataract, at some distance from 
the spot where the shepherd bad 
lost his child. The banks of tilts 
cataract almost joined at the top, 
yet separated by an abyss o^ im<« 
mense depth, which so often a^ 
tonishes and appals the travellers 
that frequent the Grampian moun* 
tains; and indicates that these 
stupendous .chasms- were not the 
silent working of time, but the 
sudden efi'ect of some violent con- 
vulsion of the earth. Down one 
of these rugged and. almost perpen- 
dicular descents, the dog without 
hesitation made his way, and at 
last disappeared into a cave, the 
mouth of which was almost upon 
aievel with the tonaat. The shefw 

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htrd «Sth d<fliciilty» foUowM, but 
ea catering the cave« vrbat were 
Vis emotioniy when he beheld his 
Infant, eiiting with much satisfttc- 
tion>. the cake the dog had just 
l»rought him, while the faitbt'iil 
•nimal stood by, eying hia yoiing 
charge with the utmost compk'- 
tence* From the situation in 
'whioh the ehihi waa found, it ap-* 
feara that he had wandered to the 
brink of the precipice, and then 
•itber fallen •dor scrambled down 
till he reached the cave, which the 
dreaci of the torreot had prevented 
hm frpn quitting. The dog by 
BieaDS of his scent, had traced him 
to- the spot, and afterwards pre^ 
^nted him from starving by giv-» 
jog iip4o him his own daily allow* 
ancff. He never appears to have 
<|tttttecl the child by night or day, 
except when it was found neces-i> 
sary to go for its food, and then he 
was always seen running at full 
•peed to and from the cottage.*' 



.BA3T4NDZA JOCKEYSHIP, 

or; 
«0W TO BUY A HORSE FOR 

TIME. 



n the Editor of the Sporting Ma* 
gazme, 

T> Am about t6 convince you, that 
^ you do not send annually such 
• number of the Volumes of the 
Sporting Mc^tine to onr settle* 
xnent« in India, for nothing. No, 
»ot your pages are well and dili- 
gemly studied, and ymir Indian 
jisciples have made a famous pro- 
gress, in the acquisition of those 
brudential maxims, which you 
liave so often inculcated on that 
iBOst important point in jockey* 
•hip-^be purcliase of the horse, 
do not preteii4 to say ihat^ aU 



bujrers of hones in those distant 
climes, are endowed with the dis« 
crimination, cautiop, plausibiltty» 
and dexterity of niancnivre ) nor all 
sellers, with that patient forbear^ 
ance, which will appear in each 
character below ; but only to give 
fi( shining example of what has^ 
imd may be, achieved by both par« 
lies in this way. 

For the following letter, I am 
obliged to Mr. Squire, the printer^ 
who copied it from the original. 
The hbtory of the affair nms thus^ 
bnd lies between two brother of* 
ficers in our Indian army, with 
whose names I shall not make free* 
The proprietor of the horse ac- 
commodated his friend, who de- 
eired to become a purchaser, with 
a trial, it may be supposed, as usual 
la such cases, of some days. He 
then sends for his friend's answer. 
His friend had not time to make 
up his mimK A while after, ano-* 
ther message is sent. The same 
answer I and tb^ following six 
months produced nothing but a 
similar catechism of question and 
answer. At the end of this period, 
.the would-be seller demanded, that 
which is usually styled, in muc|i 
greater affairs than a bargain for 
a horse, a categobical ANSWBli-r* 
he Lad one, and here it is — 

'* DBAR — 



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" I have been ruminating within 
my own mind, since I left you, op 
Ihe question, whether I should 
tftkeysonr horse or not. I have 
been itdariring bia^ good qoaUtieSy 
as attested by every Officer of th^ 
regiment who knows him, and Is 
a judge of these matters. I have 
also been considering the effects ^ 
the -slight blemishes which, it is 
confessed, he labours under. AU 
this I have been measuring by ji 
rule, which I have laid doMrn la 
myself^ with rej^rd to thft horse % 

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dhall purchase ; viz. to have such 
a one as may sell again to advan- 
isLgCg or, at least, without loss to 
uie. Now, 1 have been consider- 
ing of that eye-sore on the animal's 
foot, which, although no material 
injury to the beast, yet, it is well 
known, weighs niiich against his 
value, in the eyes of most of those 
people who are in the habit of 
purchasing horses, even should they 
he conscious that ttie animal of- 
fered to them, is otherwise gifted 
with good properties. Such being 
the case, I am obliged to declare, 
that at present I have not made 
up my mind to take your horse.— 
I am, your*s/' 

For the credit of old English 
Jockeyship, and to shew that we 
are not quite shamed by Indian 
professors, I shall tack the follow- 
ing rider, which I came at by the 
. bye,, to the letter above. A per^ 
son, not a hundred miles from St. 

J?mVs Church-yard, says to his 
riend, I have a horse to sell, do 
you know of a purchaser? His 
friend replies— ^wby, I should have 
no objection to buy a horse, if I 
found he would suit me, and in 
course, a trial was agreed upon. 
Now, this friend wanted to make 
a journey to — — , within a few 
days, which he did upon the horse 
io question, returning him after- 
wards with a message, that — tJie 
horse did not altogether mi( his 
purpose. If not altogether, no 
doubt it did in part. . M. 



SOME PARTICUi;,ARS 

or TBS 

WFE OF JONATHAN ALDHAM, 

{IFith <m ongituU Letter^Jrom a curiout 
CoUtetion^ in the hemdt ^Mr, Squire^J 



JONATHAN Aldham was a corn 
^ mercbanl at Alanningtree, 1^ 



£ssex, and floor isfaed. some iotti 
or fifty* years ago. He was 3 
shortish, silly man, wfth a sleeli 
countenance, and a tomely bdty^ 
according to the recollection of th^ 
present writer, who knew blm, and 
fancied that he possessed first-rat^ 
excellence in the art of inimlcry' 
which he had practised from his 
youth. But his capital charactet 
was that of Punch, in which, ac- 
cording to his own sense of thi 
matter, he excelled allthe world 1 
and It was impossible to confer i 
greater favour on Jonathan, tbad 
to ask him to play Punch; and 
should a visitor, or friend, un^ 
luckily omit to reqi^est silch higli 
gratification, Jonathan seldoiA 
failed to remind him of it. ' 

About that period, Mr. Kigby', 
the Paymaster-General, was mak** 
ing great improvements in his noi 
ble residence at Misiley, the afl^ 
joining parish to Manningtree*^ 
and to glean as I go, the following; 
story was then current. Mr. Rig*- 
by possessed fhe fee-simple of the 
whole j^arish of Sfanningtree, ^av^ 
ing and excepting a few rods of 
land, the freehold of a poor cobler^ 
and on which his dwelling stood ; 
and although the great man re** 
peatedly offered the cobler^ ten 
times its worth for his little slip 
of earth, the man of gentU craft 
woidd never comply, lest be should 
lose the exquisite gratification^ of 
having it in his power to say^- 
<' All Mistley belongs to Mr. Rig. 
by and me.'' 

The fame of Jonathan Aldham 
reached Mistley Hall, and Mr. 
Rigby, entertained by the oddities 
and simple foolery of this raan^ got 
into the habit of frequently send- 
ing for bim> as an entertaining butt 
to a certain description of bis visi- 
tors. Among these, were the late 
Lord Thurlow^ Mr. Garrick, and 

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•CTeral hon vivants, wbo usually bol<ed through, with tb« agility gf 
made up those choice parties. On a harlequin. Garrick followed at 
the first saeeting there, between \m heels^ exciting convulsions of 
Garrick and Jonathan, a trick was laughter in the com)>any at the 
played off upon the latter, from the window, and utter astonishment in 
effects of which be did not recover those who chanced to l)e abroad ! 
for some time. The plan pursued The pursuit was kept u^, nnlU 
was, to caution Jonathan that the poorruucb, thinking, perhaps, that 
stranger, lueauing Garrick, al- madmen were not water proof, 
though perfectly ^barmless^ and a actually dashed into a pond up to 
most companionable gentleman,was his middle, where his pursuer left 
really an incurable lunatic, and oc- him to return to Maimingtreef 
rationally liable to strange eccen- without hat or wig, his fine scarlet 
trlcities qf conduct. Poor Jona- and broad^laced waistcoat, and 
than shewed by his constant, bbscr- white silk stockings, quite in waot 
Tant» and anxious glances, that he of the scourer ! 
ftucked in this story with the sim- The old story, however, is but 
plicity of a child ; and Garrick, too well vefifieJ, that some play 
taking advantage of this, seized the fool for want of wit, 4i><l srmie 
every opjiortunity of throwing those for want of ntoney. And poor Jo- 
traits of distraction into his coun- nathan Aldhani, in bis old at(c, 
tenance, which seemed nature her- sadly experienced, that playing the 
self looking through hi« eyes. The fool had been to him a most uu- 
other parties, affecting to take no fortunate profession. He came to 
Dotice, but to converse as usual, poverty, but bad still ih^ conffprt 
*w«re infinitely entertained at the of bis folly left, and in the lowest 
duet of grimace between King ebb of bis fortune was apparently 
Ijear and Punch. The distress of as njuch gratified by playing the 
Punch was inconceivably ludi- part of Punch, in bis original 
crous — he looked, averted his head, broad-laced waistcoat, somewhat 
looked again, trembled, fidgetted 5 the worse for wear, and his thread* 
till at length, Garrick perceiving bare coat, as he had used to be, when 
that his confederates could hold out he could reckon a Paymaster-Kje- 
but few moments longer without neral among his associates. He 
bursting, as began already to ap- managed, however, to live all bis 
pear by the quaking of Rigby*s life in some sort of way, arid make 
fat sides, he thought it high time his orange wn'ne, by presents of 
to proceed to the denouement of which, as will be seen by his letter, 
the piece. Suddenly starting up, he endeavoured to keep alive a 
stamping with bis foot, tearing off connection that supported him, 
bis neckcloth, and bloating his with some solid pudding and some 
countenance with the full expres- hoj>e9. One anee«k>tc in relatioB 
sion of raging madness, he looked to him, which has been giver\ as a 
full in the face of Jonathan, who fact, is of some little consequence, 
started from his seat uttering a His adventure with the madman 
loud shriek, and not thinking hin>- being much talketlof in town, aod 
f?elf s^fe in the same house with a remembered for some years, bis 
madman^ ovei turned every thing drollery in the character of Punch 
in his way, until he reached the could not be forgotten^ and from 

window, which he banged up, aivl him it w-as, that the author of tl^e 

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farce' of tiarleq'uin Evei-y Wh^re, 
accidentally took the idea of intro- 
ducing a Punch into that celebrated 
entertainment^ in which Edwin^ as 
Punchy first became a favourite 
tvith the public, and laid the foun- 
dation of his future fame. This af- 
terpiece was a great favourite withi 
the then Prime Minister, liord 
North, and several persons of high 
rhnk, and drew siich great and 
fashionable houses, tliat paany fre- 
quenters of the theatre have ex- 
pressed their surprize that it sliould 
not have been revived. — ^I have the 
honour to remain. Sir, &c. &g. 



FROM J***«»»N A****M; ESa TO 



2V 



all joind in the chorus^ s^ngfflt ^ ^, 
we wass all very merry, , Jrerbajw^J 
these' gentlemen Would .b^ }4J'^\ 
enough to give something— 1 ^ai>j 
ried to London 6 bottles oi^^jpY^ 
fine orange wine, April 4 — CX,.^ 
left for Ld Chancellor Thnrldw.at 
his house &6 bottles for Ld Wey- 
mouth that 1 left at his bqusei( 
they not bdng at home; and-gay^^ 
likewise 6 bottles for Ld Diingar^ 
vbn. I remember 1 bad.. the i>lea- 
sure of being at your good brother 
Sr C. B^****y*s mos^ noble house* 
at Barton^ & a most elegant enjter'*; 
tainment we had: I with grpat 
pleasure danced & 1 likewise sun^ 
a song " Horse aw^y to NewW 
market" a spng that I made my-. 
sielfj its a proper despription of 
Newmarket races till they are all 
over; and my Lord ^Grovenor 
wass there at the house ; you can't 
tbiiik how pleased he. wassi^i'thr 
the song: Perhaps- he, good Ld 



Manningtreey iSlepr, i», —^6.'. 

Most worthy Hy, B*****y 
Esq. this with my service to you 

and may serve to acquaint you the €it<wfen'oi' %odd do sdtnethlft^ fd^ 

Aevd iftr. T*****n of BradfuU us; my good fffcnd in case if shoodl 

who. is one of our neighbouring be in your way, in your brotherai 

Justice o£ Pi^ce, he parried my way or any otheir friends way, to 

sister T****rs daughter . anid he get me a small sinecure f^ac^'t£'i|:' 



preach at Bradfull aiid ^istley and 
1)0 highly recommended for me t/o 
have a petition for some friends to 
give me something and he wood 
draw it up, and knowing that I am 
well respected by gentiem^njin ge- 
neral he thought it wood dp right 
well. I was much acquainted with 
Richd Riffby Bsqte above thirty 
years, and 1 very often dined with 
him at Mistley Halt ; I have bad 
t)ie honour and p^asilre of dicing, 
at Mr* Rigbys with \he Duke of 
Bedford Ld Chancellor Thuiiow 
and Ld Weymouth, . now I think 
lie is Earl pf Bath : t^is wass at 
different times that I dined with 



was only. 1(>— '15— oif 2p^. €i 
year or upwards it wood makeai^j 
agreeable addition to qur inpooie 
and u^ake us very h^ppy 5 I liof «. 
you'll excise my writingtso,long. 91 
lettev J my wife and I join witi^- 
\yith our kind respects toyourwoir^ 
thy. good self ancl your worthy 
gpod brother & worthy g^od fa^ 
mily. and am your most hupable 
servt. 

' j******jj a*dh*m; 

. p. S. I a good while ago carried 
in twice carriing 2 doz. bottles o£ 
ray fine orange wine to your good 
brother Sr C****s's bouse ; I siip-« 
pose you had some of it which I 



those there worthy RQod gentle^ hope ypa liked; I am 'very fond 

men, I gave them^ aUttk poetry^ of . orange, vvjne myself; and (^ 

^ a few songs & these gentlemea expect sugar and oranges to be 

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cbetper a wbile hence & if so I 
bope and expect a while hence to 

?ake'8ome orange wine & if I do 
should be very glad to have the 
pfealure to give iiJr C****s and yon 
some, if yoa ar^ both fond of 
orai^e wine, as I am very fond of 
it myself. My wife and I have 
A>nle thoughts of letting ^ our 
house ready fiTrnisht very geuteely, 
i(brtck front 14 sash win(low3 and 
12 rooms and a mir^hty pretty 
gardeu, chay house, & if any of 
yr friends should want such a bouse 
hi us know : only my wife and 1 
tfhd a maid in so large a house, its 
an exceeding jg;ood house standing 
^nteel and pleasant in the market 
Wberecoatches come by. We hope 
you will do something for us, and 
(k> what is agreeable upon the 
snFair« J. A. 



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QAM EUNQ IN HIGH LIFE. 



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Jfi^ /kim trU4 m. the Cwa* of JCmg*w 
. " ' J^ifnck^ Saturdai/f Feb, ao« 

flanking and Another, - Assignees -of Mar* 
..T txndale, v. Price, 

nriLE Solicitor-General stated, 
that this was an issue directed 
Ky the Master of the Rolls, in or- 
der to ascertain, whether the con- 
sfderatloii of two prointssory notes 
^awn on Lady Almeria Carpenter 
by the plainti^, and dated 3d ^ily> 
ty^, consisted of money won at 
|j|ay, or lent at time and' place of 
jflay, or what part' of the conside- 
vation was so tainted. He was' 
sorry to say; that this. Lady had 
occftsiorially visited the b^use of 
tkr. Marttudale> who kept a sub- 
scription-house, nnd bad large 
gambling transactions with that 
gentleman ; bat, besides ntonies 
Ic^t at the time and place of play, 
which were not recoverable ac law, 
(bat gentleman bad lent to Lady 



Almeria, at different times, fa 
small sums, for her ordinary occa^ 
sions, a sum more than sufficient 
to cover the present demand of 
lOOOl, notes put in and proved. 

Mr. Topping said, the present 
defendants were merely nominal; 
that the creditors of Lady Alme* 
ria Carpenter had fikd a bill in the 
Court of Chancery, in order to 
have an account of her effects; 
and to this bill the present defend«> 
ants were made parties, the Hon. 
Mrs. Price being executrix of La- 
dy Almeria. The present plaintiffs 
claimed to be admitted as creditors 
for the two proraTssoi-y notes, 
which the other creditors resisted, 
having learned that they arose in 
gambling transactions. The Mas- 
ter, on ceference to Uim, allowe<l 
them ; and on his report being ob* 
jected to, his Honour the Master 
of the Rolls directed this issue, 
and, by his direction, the onus of 
proving the illegality of the consi- 
derarion rested on tbe defendants. 
It wonld spjiear that these notes' 
were given to the plaintiffs after 
the bankruptcy ot Martmdale, 
whose subscription bouse, it was 
shocking to say, wai frequented 
by some of the most fashionable 
people, to whom Martindale acted 
as hanker in those gambling trans- 
actions. It would appear, from a 
book kept by Martindale, and 
which would he given in evidenccr 
that tbe debit to this lady account, 
was for one night. IO9O guineas > 
nmd ' the balance against her on 
these gambling transactions was 
1370 guineas. For this and some 
other demands, Martindale got 
from this lady, a bond for 30001. 
After hb bankruptcy, the assignees, 
agreed to give up the bond for 
20001. on eonditron of receiving 
^001. in casb» and her two note? 
for ^$001. «»cb. 9y th« Master of 

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•Ac Rolls* order, the defendants 
were bound to impeach the consider- 
ation : this put him under great dif- 
ficulties, and with the utmost defe- . 
rence^ he should have thought it a 
fairer distribution to have made them 
«hew the consideration : however, 
he would call Mr. Martindale^ and 
OD his testimony the cause must rest. 
Martindale stvorn* — ^The' plain- 
tiffs are my assignees. I have had 
gamblipg transactions with Lady 
Alraeria Carpenter amongst others. 
[The Solicitor-General here said, 
that he would not object to Mr. 
Topping leading the witness, in or- 
der that more names might not be 
given to the public than were neces- 
sary. J This is an account of my 
gaming transactions with Lady AI- 
meria Carpenter ; I took a security 
from her of 3000I. I suppose the 
1370 guineas were included. I had 
many other transactions with her, 
besides gaming transactions, as I 
had with half of the fashionable 
world. I paid her, at her own 
house, many sums of 30I. 40I. and 
col. I cannot tell the amount : I 
lent it to her at her own house. I 
won't swear how much of the bond 
was for money lent. It was much 
beyond 500I. Whenever she asted 
me for money, she had it. I cannot 
after the lapse of time fix the sum. 
I know from the plaintiffs, that they 
gave up the bond ror 2000I. for 500I. 
in cash, and two notes of 500U 
each. I sometimes took memoran- 
dums, sometimes not. After my 
bankruptcy I had no connection 
with Lady Almeria Carpenter. I 
3Cted as banker on those gaming 
transactions; I often lent her money 
for her domestic affairs. It is noto- 
rious that I kept half the fashionable 
world. She was very destitute, or 
the would net have borrowed from 
«e. She got the money by driblets ; 
it ^x^eeded ^ree times 500!. I 



cannot tell the precise sum* N«t i 
guinea was ever repaid. 

Lord Elienborough stated to the 
Jury, that what they had to try was^ 
whether any part of the considera* 
tion consisted of money won or of 
money lent at the time and place of 
play, for the purpose of play"; for it 
was not every loan made at the tim^ 
and place of play that was bad. For 
if a man, stripped of all his money by 
gambling, should at the time and 
place of play, borrow 20I. for his 
necessary expences the next day, 
such loan would no doubt bin^ 
him. Had it been a transaction of 
yesterday, he should have thought 
that the onus of proving the const- 
deration should have been put upon 
the plaintiffs ; but as the tra^nsactioa 
occurred at so distant a period, he 
thought the Master of the Rolls 
hadjudged\yisely in laying the onut 
on the defendants. The Jurjr 
might presume, that the plaintiffs in 
their settlement with Laqy Almeri^ 
Carpenter, had deducted all the i\xm$ 
not legally recoverable. 

Verdict for plaintiffs, 1 020I. 



DISPUTES ON POINTS OT 
HONOUR. . . 



CUBJECTS coming under the 
above description, having often 
occupied our pages, we conceive the 
insertion of the following Letter, 
from it^ embracing a point of honour 
between an Illustrious Personage 
and his equally Illustrious Consort, 
to be no great deviation from the 
plan of our Magazine. 

The letter was transmitted on the 
14th of January to the Earl of 
Liverpool and Lord Eldon, sealed, 
by Lady Charlotte Campbell, m 
Lady in Waiting for the month, 

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to the Princess of Wales, express- conduct of an illustrious female Feu 
fng her Royal Highnesses pleasure sonage. The Commisaoners wer? 
th^t it should be presented to the Lord Erskine, (then Lord Chap- 
Prince Regent; an open copy was cellor), Lord Grenville, Lord Spen- 
likewi^ sent for the above Noble cer, and Lord EUenborough. Of 
Lords' perusal. — On the 15th, the the main charge (pregnancy and de- 
letter was returned unopened to livery), the acquittal of her Royal 
Lady Charlotte Campbell, who sent Highness was complete ; but the 
it back on the following day, in* above noble Commissioners statqdy 
timatingy that as it contamed matter that other strong circumstances had 
of importance to the State, she been positively sworn to, by wit- 
relied on their laying it before his nesses who could not in their judg- 
Hoyal Highness. It was again re- ment be suspected of any bias, and 
turned unopened, with the Earl of whose veracity in other respects they 
Liverpool's compliments to Lady had seen no grounds to question* 
Charlotte, saying, that the Prince which necessarily gave occasion to 
saw no reason to depart from his very unfavourable imputations ; tliat 
determination. — On the 17th, the they must be credited until they 
letter was again transmitted to the should receive some decisive contra- 
two Noble Lords above-mentioned, diction, and that they were justly 
vrho then returned for answer, that entitled to the most serious conside- 
tbe contents of it had been made ration of his Majesty. After a long 
known to the Prince. — ^On the 19th defence, prepared, as it is said, by 
lier Royal Highness directed a Mr. Perceval, Lord Eldon, and Sir 
letter to be addressed to the two Thomas Plomer, the above report 
Koble Lords, desiring to know was confirmed by his Majesty's tbeB 
"whether it had been made known con^dential Servants, and it was upon 
to his Royal Highness, by being this body of evidence that the Book^ 
read to him, and to ktK)w his plea- with most curious animadversions, 
surethereon.-^— No answer was given was prepared £br publication. A 
to this letter, and therefore on the change of Ministers, however, took 
26th she directed a letter to be place on the 25th March, 1807, and 
written, expressing her surprize, then her Royal Highness's legal ad- 
that no answer had been given to visers being at the head of the Go* 
her application for a whole week.— vernment, they revised the proceed- 
To this an answer was received, ings, and on the zist April, by a 
addressed to the Princess, suting, mmute of Cabinet, declared not only 
that in consequence of her Royal that the two main charges were com - 
Highness's demand her letter had plctely disproved ; but were also of 
been read to the Prince Regent on opinion, that all the'other particulars 
the 20th, but that he had not been of conduct brought ia accusation 
pleased to express his pleasure there- against; the illustrious person, to 
on. which the character of criminality 
To render some passages of the could be ascribed, were either satis- 
Ictter more clear, it may oe neces- factorily contradicted, or rested upoo 
sary to observe, that during the ad- evidence of such a nature, andwh^h 
ministration of Mr. Fox, m 1805, wasgivtB under such circumstances, 
in consequence of some scandalous as rendered it in the judgment of his 
rum Durs, a Commission was appoint- Majesty's confidential servants, un- 
fed by his Majesty to inquire into the deserving of credit. 

Leiler 



THE SPQETING MAGAZINE. S33 

%etter qfHer Royal Highness the hoDo^r, iiot to perceive, how mucli 

. Princess ofWa\eSy tp the Prince more justly they belong to the Mo- 

Jiegent. ^ ther of your Daughter — the Mother 

" SjR, of her who is destined, I trust at a 

"It is with great reluctance that very distant period, to reign over the 

I presume to obtrude myself upon British Empire, 

your Royal Highness, and to sor ** It may be known to your 
tcit your attention to matters which ' Royal Highness, that during the 

may, at first, appear rather of a per- continuance of the restrictions upon 

^onai than a public nature. If I your royal authority, I purposely 

could think them so — ^if they related refrained from making any represent 

merely to myself — I should abstain tations which might then augment 

from a proceeding which might give the painful difficulties of your ex- 

uneasine^s, or interrupt the more alted station. At the expiration of 

■^eighty occupations of your Royal the restrictions I still was inclined 

Hi^kness's time, I should continue, to delay taking this step, in the hope 

in silence and retirement, to lead the that I might owe the redress I 

life which has been prescribed to sought to your gracious and unso- 

me, jand console myself for the loss licited condescension. I have wait- 

pf that society and those domestic ed, in the fond indulgence of thig 

comforts to which I have so long expectation, until, to my inexpressi- 

been a stranger, by the reflection ble mortification, I find that my 

that it has been deemed proper I unwillingness to complain has only 

should be afijicted without any fault produced fresh grounds of complaint; 

ftf my own — aocl that your Royal and I am at length compelled, either 

Highness knows it. to abandon all regard for the two 

" But, Sir, there are considera- dearest objects which I possess on 

tions of a higher iiature than any earth, mine own honour, and my 

regard to my own happiness, which beloved Child, or to throw myself 

render this address a duty both to at the feet of your Royal Highness* 

Myself and my Daughter. May I the natural protector of both. 

Venture to say — a duty also to my " I presume. Sir, to represent to 

Husband, and the People committed your Royal Highness, that the sepa^ 

to his care? There is a point ration, which every succeeding pionth 

beyond which a guiltless woman is making wider, of the Mo&er and 

cannot with safety carry her forbear- the Daughter, is equally injurious 

ance. If her honour is invaded, the to my character and to her educa- 

defence of her reputation is no tion. I say nothing of the deep 

longer a matter of choice ; and it wounds which so cruel an arrange- 

fiignifies not whether the attack be ment inflicts upon my feelings, al- 

made openly, manfully, and directly though I would fain hope that few 

—or by secret insinuation, and by persons will be found of a disposi- 

holding such conduct towards her tion to think lightly of these. To 

as countenances all the suspicions see myself cut oiF from one of the 

that malice can suggest. If these veiy few domestic enjoyments left 

ought to be the feelings of every me — certainly tlie only one upon 

woman in England who is conscious which I set any value, the society 

that she deserves no reproach, your of my Child — ^mvolves me in such. 

Royal Highness has too sound a misery, as I well know your Royal 

judgment, and too nice a sense of Highness could never inflict upoq 

me 



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in« if you were aware of iu bitter- might justify me in the gracioQijod^ 

ntss. Our intercourse has been ment of your Royal Highness, had- 

gradually diminished. A single it no other motives for addressing 

interview weekly seemed sufficiently you but such as relate to myseU# 

hai d allowance for a Mother's atifec- Dut I wilt not disguise from your 

tioas. — ^That* however, was reduced Royal Highness what I cannot for 

to our meeung once a fortnight ; and a moment conceal from myself, that 

I now learn that even this most ri- the serious, and' it soon may be, the 

gorous interdiction is to be still more irreparable injury which my Daogh- 

rigidly enforced. ter sustains from the plan at present 

" But while I do not venture to pursued, has done more in overcora- 

intrude my feelings as a Mother mg my reluctance to intrude upon 

upon your Royal Highness's notice, your Royal Highness, than any 

I must be allowed to say, that in sufferings of my own could accom- 

the eyes of an observing and jealous plish; and if for her sake I presume 

worlds this separation of a Daugh- to calf away your Royal Highness's 

ter from her Mother will only admit attention from the other cares of 

of one construction— a construction your exalted station, I feel confi* 

fa^l to the Mother's reputation. — dent I am not claiming it for a 

Your Royal Highness will also par- matter of inferior importance either 

don me for adding, that there is no to yourself or your people. 

less inconsistency than injustice in ** The powers with which the 

this treatment. — ^He who dares ad- Constitution of these realms vests 

vise your Royal Highness to over* your Royal Highness in the regnla- 

laok the evidence of my innocence, tion of the Royal Family, I knov, 

and disregard the sentence of com- because I am so advised, are ample 

plete Acquittal which it produced — and unquestionable. My appeslf 

or is wicked and false enough still Sir, is made to your exceflent sense 

to whisper suspicions in your ear, and liberality of mind in the exercise 

betrays his duty to you. Sir, to your of those powers ; and I willingly 

Daughter, and to your People, if hope that your own parental feelings 

he counsels you to permit a day to will lead vou to excuse the anxiety 

pass without a further investigation of mine for impelling me to repre* 

of my conduct. I know that no sent the unhappy consequences which 

such calumniator will venture to the present system must entail upon 

recommend a measure which must our beloved child, 

speedily end in his utter confusion. *' Is it possible, Sir, that any one 

Then let me implore you to reflect can have attempted to persuade your 

on the situation in which I am placed; Royal Highness, that her character 

without the shadow of a charge a- will not be injured by the perpetual 

gainst me — ^without even an accuser violence offered to her strongest 

.;— lafter an Inquiry that led to my affections — ^the studied care taken 

ample vindication — ^yet treated as if to estrange her from my sgciety, and 

I were still more culpable than the even to interrupt all communication 

perjuries of my suborned traducers between us? That her love for me, 

represented me, and held up to the with whom, by his Majesty's wise 

world as a Mother who may not en- and gracious arrangements* she 

joy the society of her only child. passed the years of her infancy and 

" Th^ fefelings. Sir, which are childhood, never can be ea^tinguisji- 

■atural to my unexampled situation, ed, I well knoWi aadthe knowledge 



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%f it Fonns the greatest blessing of 
my existence. But let me implore 
your Royal 'Highness to reflect how 
inevitably all .attempts to abate this 
attachment, by forcibly separating 
us, if they succeed, must injure my 
child's principles — if they fail, must 
destroy her happiness. 

" The plan of excluding ray 
Daughter iromall intercourse with 
the world, appears to my humble 
judgment peculiarly unfortunate. — 
She who is destined to be the Sove- 
reign of this great country^ enjoys 
none of those advantages of society 
which are deemed necessary for im- 
parting a knowledge of mankind to 
persons who have infinitely less oc- 
casion to learn that important les- 
son ; and it may so happen, by a 
dhance which I trust is very remote, 
that she should be called upoa to 
exercise the powers of the Crown, 
with an experience of the world 
more confined than tliat of the most 
private individual. To the extraor- 
dinary talents with which she is 
blessed, and- which accompany a 
disposition as singularly amiable, 
frank, and decided, I willingly trust 
much; but beyond a certain point 
the greatest natural endowments can- 
not struggle against the disadvantages 
of circumstances and situation. It 
is my earnest prayer^ for her own 
take as well as her country's, that 
your Royal Highness may be in- 
duced to pause before this point be 
reached. 

«* Those who have advised you, 
Sir, to delay so long the period of 
itiy Daughter's commencing her in- 
tercourse with the world, and for 
that purpose to make Windsor her 
residence, appear not to have regard- 
ed the interruptions to her education 
which this arrangement occasions ; 
both by the impossibility of obtain- 
ing tl^e atte&dance of proper teach- 



ers, and die time utiaroidaUy con-^ 

sumed in the frecjuent joumies to 
town, which she must make, unless 
she is to be secluded from all inter- 
course, even with your Royal High- 
ness and the rest of the Royal Fa-* 
mily. To the same unfortunate 
Counsels I ascribe a circumstance in 
every way so distressing both to 
my parental and religious feelings, , 
that my Daughter has never yet en- 
joyed the benefit of Coofirmatioii^ 
although above a year older than 
the age at which all the other 
branches of the Royal Family have 
partaken of that solemnity, lifay 
I earnestly conjure yoo^ Sir, to hear 
ray intreaties upon this serious mat« 
ter, even if you should listen to 
other advisers on things of less near 
concernment Jto the welfare of ooc 
Child ! 

<< The pain with wjiich I liave 
at length formed the resolution of 
addressing myself to your Royal 
Highness is such as I jshould in vaia ] 
attempt to express. If I couU 
adequately describe it, you might 
be enabled. Sir, to estimate the 
strength of the motives which hat^e 
made me submit to it. Th^ are 
the most powerful ^elings of afiec'** 
tion, and the deepest impressions of 
duty towards your Royal Highness^ 
. Biy beloved Child, and the Country* 
which I def oudy hope she may be 
preserved to govern, and to shew bj. 
a new example the liberal a&ction 
tf a free and generous Peonl^ to a. 
virtuoQS and Constitutional Mo* 
narch. I am, Sir, with profound 
respect, and an attachment which 
nothing can alter, your Royal High» 
ness's most devoted and most af« 
feotionate Consort, Cottsin, and Sub* 
ject^ (Signed) 

" Carowne Louts^." 

«< Montague Hous^, f 4th 
Jan, 1813." 

PORTRAIT 



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PORTRAIT OF CAPT. BAR- 
CLAY, 

.THXr CSI/BB&ASTED PEDESTKUN. 



X17B have enriche<l tbc present 
Niimbei- of out Magawne 
with a portrait ot- Captain Barclay, 
whose peribrmance^ as a pedes- 
trian, are so well known to the 
Sport inj; World. — The likeness is 
oopi«d trom Mr. Thorn's interest- 
ing work, oi which mention is 
wadein our prececVingpages; and 
m that gentleman has kindly gtren 
U^ leave to copy the picture, we 
ihiist alsa crave {)erniission to ex- 
tract from the same source the fol- 
lowing hrief particulars of theCap- 
tain'-s lite and favourite pursuits. 

' " Robert Barclay Atlardice, 
Esq. of Ury, succeeded his father 
itithe eighteenth year of his- age. 
He wa»-bom in the month of Au- 
gQ9i 1779, mid- Ut eight years, was 
i^iTt to j^tnglailr) to receive his edtN 
cation. He remained four years* 
at Richmond sciiool, and three 
years at ' Brixton Causeway* Ufs- 
tfcftdemical studies were completed' 
«t C^mlM'idge; after which, ht* 
tfmbarked on the great theatffe of 
Ufe, under the protection of cura- 
tors^ who managed his afitiirs, in' 
terms of his filtbcjr's settlement. 
Until hjb arrived at the' age- of 
t>«Fenty'-one.' 

«* He is descended from an aa-» 
rfctot and lyonourable family, (Irav^' 
iT»g an* undoubted right, by the 
mothef^s side, to the title - of -Barii 
of M^nteith and Arith^ as the re- 
presentative of Lady Mary Gra- 
ham, the eldest - daughter of the 
te8t«"Barl<>f Menteith and Aritb, 
who was descended of David, Earl ' 
of 8tralhei-n, the eldest sop of Ro- 
bert H. by his Queen, Euphemia 
Rots) and is known in the sporting 

^tarj4 rh]f . fbfi. title of QhfTAisf 



Barclay. His favourite putstiiti 
have ever been the art of agncttl-* 
ture, as the serious business of bis 
life, and the manly sports, as bis 
amusement or recreation. 

'^ The improvement of his ex- 
tensive estates has occupied much 
of his attention, and he is well ac- 
i|uainted with every thing relative 
to modern husbandry. His taste 
for rural aflairs is hereditary, and 
his knowledge of them is derived 
from experience. The example of 
his father, wbo raised his rental 
from three hundred pounds a year 
to several thousands, was an irre- 
sistible stimulus to an ardent mind^ 
and Captain Barcky, by pui suing 
the plan adopted by bis immediate 
predecessor, has greatly augmented* 
the value of his property, which is 
still increasing, and in a few years" 
will produce ten thousand pounds 
annually. 

" His love of the athletic exer- 
cises may proceed from the strong 
conformation of" his body, and 
great muscular strength. But his 
predilection for the nmnly spprts 
has never interfered with his im- 
portant business, or in any maimer 
retarded the improvement of his 
estate. And what may appear 
difficult or impossible to a man of 
ordinary frame,, is to him quite ea-. 
si!y accomplished. His usual rate 
of travelling on foot is six miles' an- 
hour, and to walk from twenty io^ 
thirty miles before bre^ikfast, is. a 
favourite amusement. To a per- 
son so constructed by nature and 
habit, long journies on, foot or 
on horseback — the chase, or gym- 
nastic sports — are nothing more, 
than that moderate degree of exer- 
cise which is necessary to the pre- 
servation of health. 

'' His style of walking is to 

tend forward the body, and to 

throw its weight on the knees. — 

* His 



CATTAIU BAXribAY, 



THE SPORTING MAGAZINE, »T 

His step is shorty and bis ffset am meat that rupiirad little exertioa 

raU^d oaly a few inches from the on his part, he entered into tb^ 

ground. Any person who will service of his coiuitry, and ob- 

try this plan iviU iiiid^ that his pace tained a comniission in the 23d rt^ 

will l>e quickened^ at the same giniient. He went to the continent 

time he will walk with more ease in the year 1805» his legimenc 

to himself, ami he better able to fprming part of Lord Cathcart'a 

endure the fatigue of a long jour- army, which was sent for the pro^ 

ney, than by walking in a posture tection of Hanover. He was af* 

perfectly erect, which thix>w8 too terwards promoted to a compaiiy^ 

much of the weight of the body but w^s not again in actual service 

on the ancle-joints.*' ' until the unfortunate expedil ion toi 

" Captain Barclay's partiality Walcheren^ where he acted in th« 

to the eiLercise of walking, in- capacity of aide-de-camp to Lieu* 

duces him to prefer it to any other tenant-Crener^l the Marquis of 

mode of travelling]) and> except Hantly. He embarked for that 

when hunting, he is seldom on pestiferous island, a few days after 

horseback. \Vhile he carried on he had finished his pedestrian iper^ 

the improvements of his estate, as formanoe at Newmarket, and, aU 

a practical farmer, by retaining in though greatly reduced by the fa*^ 

his own possession and cultivating tigue of that extraordinary exer« 

considerable tracts of land, he fre- tion, yet be saficred no injury* 

quently had occasion to go to the from the climate of Wakheren^ 

Highlands of Scotland, fpr the anil i»turoed home in perfect 

purpose of purchasing stock ; and health. Since that period, he haa 

m these expeditions he always tra- not b^n employed in military, 

veiled on foot." transactions, farther than in com* 

'* The life of n country gentle- manding the local militia ofhia 

man, almost every where, bnt native county, which« |irineipally 

especially in Scotland, presents through his exertions, was brotight 

little variety, and unless he shall to a' high state of <liscipline. 

occupy himself with rural affairs, '* Five years ago, a pack of fox^ 

or entertain a passion for literary hounds was establisbed in ELinear* 

pursuits, be possesses no means of dinesbire by subscription^ under 

relieving the vacuity of his situa- the auspices of Captain Barciaytf 

tion, but such as arise from field He regularly attended the pack 

sports. Captain Barclay, at an wherever it went, and was scarcely^ 

early period of his life, kept a pack a day absent frofn the chaee. Ill 

of fox-hounds, with which he summer, the hounds were kept af 

hunted in Kincardineshire. But Ury, but in the hunting season^ 

having engaged deeply in the im-o they were for weeks stationed at 

' provement of his estate, he re- Turriff, ill Aberdeenshire, and at 

nounced his pack for more serious Beauchamp, in the county of An* 

concerns, to which, for several gus. It was during the residence 

years, he wholly devoted bis atten- of the establishment at these Bta<« 

tion. Having completed those tions, that Capt. Barclay wSkmd 

measures of impro^ment, how- the greatest personal iliooilTeBU 

eirer, which he had so laudably ency. But his -ardour for thsi 

undertaken, and his estate being chase ia suck, that he will cndwa 

brought to a system< of mviwmf* fOiy jdtfree of ftdigut in thu 

: Vol. XM.— No; 245. ^ I i fW^ 



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pucsuk of ' kk favonrita amui^* 
sent. ' 

'^ As the owner of au cxtcBSiTe 
agfcate, kis int«rcourte wkb the 
aetghbovring proprietors is fire- 
qnent.aod frieodljr^ and those 
whom cither politics or tncUnatioii 
kad him to associate with, are 
the most caspectaUe characters of 
tibccoMBty.' His coooectioa with 
his tenaatry ^ ia supported by ail 
•hoae ties which natniaUy biad a 
paoprietor to that useful class of 
men. They are fndusorioiis and 
thriving. -Tbey receive tbchr farms* 
at a fak^psioe y for he knows the 
isaka of the knd^ and that his 
•wit hatensst is combined with their 
prosperity. Under sueh circum* 
Slanees^ it is to he e&peottfd that 
aaadi civility wiU reciprocally 
take place. His tenantry accord* 
ijigly partiexpate warmly i» evei7 
Wmg aoonected with hie welfare^ 
and, in retmrn» his seivicea ava 
aeady Uk pranena thefar comfort and 
happiness. 

** Captain Baaday^s mode of 
Krtnfispbiii«nd«Qafiecled. His 
tdiiia it always abaodantly sup- 
plied, and he is fond of society^ 
His hospitiiltty is of that^frank and 
•pea Jund which «c4t tv«ry man at 
his ease. With a cmidescension 
•xtreasely •gMoahle, be directs his 
atteotioQ afike to- every person, 
and, hi consisteocy wish the voWs 
of good bteeding, the perfect It- 
herty of spaeoh and action it en- 
joyed bf jtvery one who sHrrounds 
ism* He it vrdl acijuainled with 
fenetai history, the Cbeek ami La« 
tiftcksfiet, andoooverietioenfly 
•n roost suhjeelt that ai^eintro*- 
diused>mcmnpany)itl#pksof di$« 
emii6ni tto ba» stood a candt- 
dfllO' iar -bis native <(oonty, ^bich 
hit father w» honboreiMy repre- 
aswtedt^ iis 4iwee parltaaMtif^ y- end> 
Id^ hit: polit^ali se&linient^ -ha* b 



moderate and independent. As fat 
from violently censuring those 
whose political conduct he'doet 
not approve^ as from blindly fol- 
lowing the opinions of those with 
whom he publicly acts or perso* 
nalty esteems— -be thinks for bim'« 
self, and judges of measures by 
their eiScacy, or tries them by the 
legitimate deductions of rationed 
probability. 

'' In private and in public life. 
Captain Barclay has ever evinced 
hinextlde adherence to those strict 
principles of honour and integrity 
which characterise a gentleman^ 
and, whether as transacting with 
mankind, individually, or as a pub* 
lie character, responsible for bis 
•pinions and conduct at the shrine 
oi his country, he has always 
proved his sincere respect for toe 
rights of others, and bis unfeigned 
attachment to the British constita« 
tion."^ 

[To tbou of ov nteden who are desirous 
of perusing a move copious account ot 
Chptain Batchy, and the particulars of 
his celebrated match, ot at thousand 
mikt in a thousand hours, we recom- 
mend Mr. Thorn's work, as a fund of 
amusemeDt aadiostructive ipfonaatioa. J 



COURSING IN BUCKING- 
HAMSHIRE. 






i i 



To> the Editor of the Spofting Mc^ 
gaune, 

T Will thank yon to place the (cA»^ 
lowing in your Magazine > 
aiid if any other worth notice should 
occur, you shall most assuredly re^ 
ceive it. Your's, &c. 

An Old Sfoatsmak. 

The West Hyde Harriers met on 

Friday, February 19^ »t Will End^ 

^ after trying some time, they 

l^tSMi ia Mine lorai]^ belougfflg 

I ' * ' to* 



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to Mr. Wm. Sedgwick, of Wood- 
wicks; she w«nt away across 
Long-lane, into tbe inctdsureft of 
Rickmansworth, turning to the 
left through the inclosures to 
Chorlywood Furze, through furze, 
and tbe inclosures to Mr. Joba 
Sedgwick's HiU Farm to High 
Asb; there being headed, she 
turned (o tbe left to Herringsgate,. 
along the extensive country back 
to Mill End, and Mr. W. Sedg- 
wlck*s, through the long chain of 
coverts to Hombili ; thence across 
tbe Cbesbam road to Cbalfont St. 
Peter's, Bucks, where she crossed 
tbe river to Cbalfont House, across 
the Park ; there she was headed, 
and recrossed the river to the. 
liodge, turning to tbe right dow» 
to the river, which she did not like 
to face again; to Oak Mill, leav- 
ing the whole of the Deilham co- 
verts to the right, to Mr. John 
Weatherlv*8 Moor House, along, 
the meadows to the Parsonage 
House, at Denham; then through 
the osier beds, whei^ she seemed 
to bid defiance to this superior 
pack *by. crossing the two rivers in- 
to the, plantations of Benjamin 
Way, Es.4. leaving Penham village 
to tbe left to Red Hill, where she. 
i^rossed the high road from London 
to Oxford, then into the inclosures, 
turning, to the left into tbeDen^ 
ban^ Common fields, and the in«> 
closuies to South Lande, where 
she was headed and turned to the 
right along the meadows, (having 
00 ; alternative but being either 
killed or taking the river) into Long 
Copse; the hounds beipg close at 
her she was obliged to quit and 
face Iver Heath, where the hounds 
ran inio her after a run of twa 
hours and 1^ half, witbopt one 
check. This run may be eqaalled| 
lint never can be excelled* 



METHOD OF DESTROYING 
^ TIGERS. 

JjL Good method of destroying- 
tigers is said to be common in 
Persia, and towards the north gf 
Hindostan. 

" This device consists of a large 
semispherical esge> made o!^ strong 
bamboos, or other effici^t mate- 
rials, woven together, but leaving 
intervals throughout, of about threti 
or four inche» broad, tender tbit 
cover, which is fiMtcped to th«i 
gFoupd by means of pickets, , ia' 
some place ^beie tigeis abfijuid, a; 
man, provided with two or threes 
short strong spears, takes post «& 
night. Being accompanied hy ik 
^og, which gives the alarm, or by j>. 
goat, which by its agitation auswen 
tbe same purpose, the adventurer 
^n^ps himself up in his qiuH« ^^ 
very composedly govs to sleep, io^ 
full' confidence olf his safety. Wbea 
a titfer cooj^eSy 4ind perhaps after 
smelling aU around, begins to jear 
against the. cagev the man* staba 
him with 4>ne of Us spears througik 
the iqitep&tlees of the wicker, work* 
and rarely t'<|ils in destrc^^g the 
tiger, which is ordinarily found dead 
at no great distance in the mom^ 
ing." 

In IS07,'two tigers appeared on; 
tbe Island of Salsette^ and carried 
oflP nine persons. Tbe inhabitants 
firmly l)elieved that . these beasts 
were not beasts, but two malicious 
spirits disgViised under the fbrms of 
a royal tiger and tigress, with ha« 
man counteiMmces,p and iai^ gold 
rings in their noses and. ears : this 
opinion prevailed «o strongly, as to 
prevcnt'tbem from attempting 4o 
destroy these destructive animals, 
though a large reward w:a8 offered 
to induce them. 

t i * FE^ST 



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THE SPORinw lMGAZIt}& 



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fE^st of wit^ 



tL Professor in the Aesdemy of 
^^ Saumur u^ed to spend five hours 
every mortiing !n his study^ and 
wfts very punctual at his dinner 
hour. On his not appearing at' 
that time one day» his wife, who 
found hitti reading, said, ** I wish 
I was a book;-^" Why So r re- 
plied the Professor.^— <' Because 
you 'Would then be constant to 
me/*-*^** I should have no objec- 
tion," rejoined the Professor, 
^ provided you w^re an almanaclL.*' 
-^<' Why an abuanacfc, my dear ?** 
«— '' Because I should then have a 
Hew one every year." 

A Gentleman dining at an old 
established coffee-house in the me- 
tropolis, and not being altogether 
pleaseil with the age of tbe port 
wine placed before him, demand* 
ed, in anger, of the waiter, (on 
hearing him vociferate •* A bottle 
of old Port for No. 4.'')— - What 
is the difference. Sir, between Old 
tort and New Port ?"— To which 
the Knight of the Corkscrew rea- 
dily replied, " Old Port, Sir, is 
before you, and New'port lies in 
the Isle of Wight." 

KFIGEAH. 

ADAM awhile in Paradise 

£DJoy*d lus novel life ; 
He was caught nappinp--tn a tiiee 
* Hit rib was nude a wife. 

P6or father Adam f what a guest f 
' This most unlttcky dote 
Va^c the ^rst fnoment of thy rett 
*Ihit last of thy repose. 



A hIaeMeg playing at whist in a 
large party, observed, on his part- 
ijef taking a trick which ^he had 



already, that he should have relied 
on bis honour; the other im medi- 
ately retorted, that be made a ]>oint 
of iiever trusting to honoitr in doubt* 
Jul cases. 

Dinner Wit.— One of tbe toasts 
given at a late dinner of inercbants 
in the Shipping Interests of the 
Port of Loudon, was — ** May tbe 
pure hoiom of Father Thames ne- 
ver be prostituted by tbe meretri- 
cious allurements of Liverpool 
busies, and Glasgow smacks** 

■ An inquisitive young sprig hav- 
ing tfskcd an old laffy what was ber 
age? was answered, "Just old 
enough. Sir, to Icnow that you art 
a very itopeitinent fellow." 

Two bailiffs lately arrested fbr' 
debt Major S. of long-estaUllshed 
notoriety fbr bis hnancial address, 
as he was walking down' AHing- 
ton-street, when he b^ged leave 
to see a'Nobleniaq hi the same 
neighbourhood, whose character- 
istic generosity, hfc was sure, 
would enable bini to satisfy the 
demand. The bailiffs consented. 
He knocked at the door, and was 
admitted to the presence of the 
Nobleman, whotn he ithtis ad- 
dressed:-^" My Lord, rdying 
upon the benevolence of your dis- 
position, I hate laid a bet "with two 
friends, thAt you vronld permit me, 
although a stranger to you; to pass 
through your house into the'Park."' 
— His Lordship asseul^;, tbe Ma- 
jor made bis escape tbe back way,' 
and the two bailift were left be- 
hind to lament tbe lossof their prey. 

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TUm SKOCnNQ «HAGAZINK 



lytiLiTAKir RluiuUL****>A Gen* 
tlnnaiit wbo wbs endeaTouring to 
introduce bimself into no assembly 
ofjdauoen without a ticket, was 
tigoi/icancly told, by an officer 
pretent, " that every Ball had its 
BUkti" 



B¥ A GENTLBMAN AT CAMBaiPGX, 

Otia YoUkg Im^ wkanus accustomed to 
rite late, 

SOPHIA, rising wiUi the ^wn. 
Steals rooei frmn the blushiog mom ; 
Bat when Sophia bleeps till ten, 
Auvtra itetk' them Inck again. 



Thb following . Hoes were ad« 
dressed (with a Yery liberal sub- 
scn|ition) by that respectable vete« 
ran in politics and literature. Sir 
Charles Bunbury, Bi|rt. to the 
Rev. C. £. Stewart, on hh " Tri- 
Jhsin Ferse:" 

Tor your Trffist in Verte^ give pie lesre to 

prepoee, 
^nies^.Eght and new pby-things, th^ie 

TryUs in prose : 
ytkh pTeasore the critic your poetry 

quotes. 
And Hask*s, we know, are aoparaOel'd 

T. C. BUNBVST. 

MWM^bi;, Jba. sa 



An Irishman can no more leave 
hS that peculiarity of humour, 
which is saad to be the exclusive 
growth of Ireland, than be can 
(Jarget the country itself, as is 
evinced in the following aoecdote : 
—Some Eoglishmen and au Irish- 
nian, they being prisoners in 
Prance, were invited to a dinner 
party by some French Officers, who 
wiyhed for a time to bury all na- 
tional animosities ; and in the 
•ourse of the evening's festivity, 
one of the officerf gave as a toast, 
<* The Idnd we live in."—" Faith 
and that's good!"- exclaimed the 
jovial Hibernian j ** here's the 
laid wt itve in— <^(i Ireland for 



ever. 



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Caleb QBo<*em OMldane.-^Oa 
Monday, the asth iik. departed* 
diis life, which lie has much tend^ 
ed to enliven in the circle vhiere fae. 
moved, not a little eccentric in his. 
course, Mr. John Thompson, of 
Kircon, near Boston, Lincoln- 
shire, a wi41^known and reputable, 
character. We would fain add to 
fhis obituary notice, the particular 
profiessiou which the deceased fol-. 
lowed, as well as an enlogium of. 
his various merits as a member of 
society, which indeed they emi- 
nently deserve j but we arc utterly 
at a loss to say to what calling he 
belonged, or how to describe bis 
various excellencies, so multifa- 
rious were the former, and the lat- 
ter so much beyond our faint de- 
pitrting. The occupations, ** mul- 
tiform and vast," of the erudite 
Caleb Quot*em were neither so nu- 
merous nor so important to the 
comfort and well«-being of society.' 
we might say so difficult of being 
thoroughly understood and follow- 
ed to advantage, as tbose which 
engaged the busy life of the de» 
parted t>ma'ment of Kirton. ThU* 
life, we are glad to. learn, was noi 
spent unprofitahly to the possessor^ 
as that of Genius but too fre-' 
ipiently is, forwebearMr.Thomp* 
son has left sopne propei ty, the well- 
merited reward of his Mngular ta- 
lents and industry. When to the 
following poetical enumeration of 
the most prominent of his occupa- 
tions, published about two years' 
Bgo in a Journal, we add that ho* 
was three times married, and baa 
left productions as a man as well' 
as an artist, that. we hope willleng^ 
live after him, a tolerable idea may 
be formed of the numerous duties 
which Mr. Thompson bad to per* 
form. Tet' he lived to see half a 
century, without, it may be be- 
lieved, ever having seen the demon 

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THE SPORXING MAGAXSZ. 



£niiiH,€ze0fit<]ariieitii>g the visages 
#f others ! And then bis pow«rs t& 
brigiiten the ** bumstn face divine'* 
ate said to have been woodevfot tn-^ 
deed. 

At KirtoD, near Boatoa (my story U tnie)^ 
tifts acurfoui character, equall'd by few; 
RU vocation* (tho* mim^rous) in each he 

do«» thine, 
** If n»t quite the fint, in the very first 

Ifee;- 



As SB mrtiM, his ttu^ weB nerf€ e 

wreath, 
HU colours on canvass seem almost to 

breathe ; 
la j»rff0# or iarwiliwiygy thcfe's few to es# 

celhuB, 
0£ rivab in thaifing pfetume not to tell 

him. 
Aa gmear and hoskr Mb iMsnn h well 

known. 
As mrver and gSder^ and ^graver of gtonei 
As vender at mutkt and noted iHuHciarti 
A dutakir^z etbhr^ a leamtd optician i 
At hanger of rvoau,. and, what is more 

curious^ 
A-veeAf of werffaftigf jpaSgwt ■ * a et ypifemfc 
Ae a ^pMrtnsias not tqtnB'd^ a ieolrr ia 

gunt^ 



A pteman^ a toyman^ a mailer efhum-^ 
As (sAem^ his. name is* desei^vraly known. 
His oiiUiiKiuasGcis 41 tiseMttntelnanaif 
As ste^umer^vafnisheryfrnuer, and baker^ 
Saromei^r^aeUcr and vtolm^niaAer / 
WMir other ]MiofiMsians, distiasiidslled ke 

stands^ . 

And businesa eatensfire in each- he com- 
mands. 

Ye book-leatned, ye carious, vuiuoti, 

andsif ' 
Vfho yass fay Vs. damv ^y give bima 

caU| 
HSb pamtliigs are beautiful, Westall's no' 

better,' 
Th<>*$o any master he ae^er wai<aidebtar : 
J3ut 2LA fifitvum and&iU^, was known 

whenalK>y,. 
Thea Stashing and retyping beeame hit 

enfloy,,. 
•—But for genius inventi've his compeers 

are few, 
Hko* to aeehim, (lerhapv, you might thiniP 

him u^^iwL^ 
As a compound.of trades, he*s a challenge 

to any ; 
?&€» obD at ki»skopA<k-«ifteTV Ke ihave^fir a 



The l^te worthy a^id deservedly 
respected Sir Rich^ird. Hill^ of 
Hawkstone^ Sttlo]»^ in one at* his 
journeys homewardls^ called at. t)ie' 



sifn of /the I^nr CtoStet, fa •^^-^, 
and ord«fed some lefrcsbment far 
his retimie^ aod bis osirn favourite 
dish, boiled fowls.-— The boose wu 
kept by a person of the nasM of 
lj***tt: :Str RiobanI waited with 
great patience nearly two bourse 
after the order had been gi ven, and 
at last sent his vakt to asoertaio 
the cause of the delay. On goiog 
into the kitchen, the first sight 
that attractetl his attention, was 
the good landlady in a comf&rtaBle 
state of body,, batting tbe cook and 
kitchen maid with a rolling pin, 
for no visible cause, whilst the 
ehicfcent were boiling to rage^ aoA 
a couple of daeks, then before the 
fire, were parched up to half tlieis 
original siae I— 9och as they were, 
however, they^weve sent to the ta« 
hie, and, whilst arranging the 
cloth« &c. Sir RielMird took oat 
his pencil, and wrote on a piece of 
paper, aceidentally on tbe table> 
tbe following impromptu :— . * 

A lofty 8|0fl ticromerfiuTy 

L***tt hangs up before Ids door ; 

And kssps«»olAcrhi liis kitchen. 

To barn his ducks, asdbdil. to ngs tb 

chickens.. 
But who diis is oudit never to be told, 
. At once a drunkard, termagant, afidstold. 
It sorely ean'S be Lovott's wtf^« ^ 

The bane ef happiness qnd pbgue of 4ife t 
« Oh! yes it is^^' cries John, ** let this be 

done, 
*• Take down- my efOiSM Jim^ and kan^ 

vp'one/ 1 

To a lata hour of lus life. Sir 
Richard, adverted to the bailed 
fowls and decks, and repeated the 
story of tea to his frie|kds. 

A Gektlbmak having just re-i 
ceived change of a jionnd note, ob^ 
serving that one of the ^shillings^ 
he was afraid, would not go, a 
byestander said, that was very 
strange, fyt iXn^s eyidently ^i^h' 
silver. 



THS S^ORtnm BfAOAZmS^ 



Ui 



SPORTIJVG tJITTMLLIGEJVCE. 



f ORD Robert Moaners met 
with a serious accident in 
banting with the Dnke of Rut- 
land's fox-honnds, ~on Saturday, 
the ISthy in Leicestershire, from 
bis horse talKng with him at a leap, 
when his Lordship had his shouU 
^er dislocated, and otherwise so se^ 
▼erely bruised, that he was carried 
to Belvoir Castle in a state from 
which much danger was appre- 
hended by the faculty who attend* 
«d him. We have the satisfaction 
to state, that his Lordship is bet- 
fer, and likely to do well. 



A Pe£R, the son of a former jti- 
^dieial charact^, of great eminence, 
k reported to have been despoiled 
•f the greater portion of his pro- 
perty at play. We mu^, however, 
add, that ramours of this sort 
are often circulated, when there is 
not the least foundation for them. 



' SavnaAL ladies of fashion are 
thrown into considerable agitation 
and alarm, by the recent verdict in 
the Court of King's Bench, against 
the ' Executor of the Hon. Lady 
Almeria Carpenter, aunt to the late 
£ari Tyrconael, for l,O0Ol. the 
value of two promissory notes 
^dieh she had given to Marcin- 
^le, who used to supply the late 
I>uche6S of D ■ ' , and many 
•ther dashing women of distinc- 
tion, with sums to support their 
gambling propensities. Martin- 
dale's assignees are said to have si- 
milar claims on some of the first 
Ihmilies of our Noblesse, to the 
amount of 180,0001. — ^The curious 
diselosuretmade by Martindale, on 



the above trial (see page 2M, of 
the present Nnmber), have en- 
grossed much attention in aU tbt 
sporting circles. 

That once speedy racer, and af • 
terwards celebrated stallion, Orog, 
died at Willerby, near HuU^ on 
Saturday, February 13, at the age 
of 26 (and not 30, as erroneonsl j 
stated in some papers). — Qrog was 
welUknown for the excellence of 
his stock, which is very numerous 
in Holderness, and adjacent coun- 
try. — Grog was got by Tandem^ 
dam by Alfred ; grandam by Lo- 
cust, Changeling, out of Mambri* 

no*sdam, by Cade. 

-- 

The Earl of Darlington has sold 
his famous racer Trophonius, by 
Beningbrough, to Mr. Davison.-^ 
From his pedigree are descended 
some of the best tribe of racers 
this kingdom has ever prodnced." 
There is no doubt of hb becoming 
a leading stallion. 

Mr. Hesseltine bas refused 
1600 guineas for his horse Otten 
ringttm, the winner of the St. Le« 

ger. 



ttma 



Sporting Ball. — On the even<« 
ing of Wednesday, the 27th ult. tht 
annual hunt ball, under the direc- 
tion of Lord MiddietoQ, was held. 
St the Coort House, in Warwick, 
at which upwards of 150 persons 
were present. The fk>or of the 
ball-room was ornamented in co* 
loured chalk, representing a full- 
length figure of Guy Earl of War- 
wick^ in complete armour, and 

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THE SPORTING BIAQAZINB. 



unotberin the uniform of a Mem- 
ber of the hunt, taking a fljriug 
k^p over a liiVred fence. 

The Four-in-Hand Cluh have 
made their last attempt ta^ form a 
Ikaroiicbe line for the ensuing 
j^jiring, but in vain* Lord Hawk# 
was the last secedei from the dh^ 
banded corps of whip$ ! 

SroATiNG Hoax.— >A ludicrous 
•ccurrence with the King's stag 
bounds this month, has raise/l the 
taugh against several of the dash* 
tng sportsmen in the neighhour- 
bood of Windsor. Some of the 
gliders of 4he Ticket Horses having 
been in the habit of starting after 
the deer immediately on the burn- 
ing out, the huntsman resolved to 
check this practice by a rt<se c/e 
guerre; • He theret'ore conveyed an 
empty cart closely shut up to one 
extremity of .Ascot Heath, round 
which several gentlemen assembled 
in eager expectation* Whilst they 
w^re thus secure in their position, 
the deer was turned out on the 
(^her side the heath, the empty cart 
atili being the oi>ject which ri yet- 
ted them to their station. The, 
hoax WHS at length discovered^ but 
not in time to..&ave several that day 
from the Joss of tbeiri tickets ^ 
vMift many rtjoiced in tUeir.tri* 
ttDi})h over that unequal s^dvaotaga 
by which through many a chace^ 
' the foremos£_hfirseman rode a- 
looeJ' . • ' . . ' 



and Rockland, crossed the Shrop^ 
ham river and up the sheep's walk ; 
Tierc she was first vie#ed bf the 
hunters, about half a mile before 
the hounds, then in all directions 
across Shropham and in Hockham, 
where they lliiled her near the faall, 
after a cbace of au hour and fifty 
iiiloutes* 



Oh Friday, the 5 th instant, th« 
harriers belonging to John Amph** 
lett, Esq. of Clent House, Staf- 
fordshire, bad a roost capital run 
at a bag fox j he was turned out at 
Bell Heath, and went boldly away 
over Hagley Hill, to the Hurst, 
leaving the large Covers, Pepper - 
wood and Randans to the left ; ha 
then sunk the bottom t(» Bradford 
and Belbroughton> crossed the 
Bromsgrove turnpike road to Moor 
Hall, over Walton Hill to Ufmore 
Wood end Honiton, where he was 
killed, after a run of twenty-five 
miles, which was run in one hour 
and three quarters*. 

TuBSDAT, the 2d instant, tb« 
Duke of Richmond's boi^nds chased 
a fox within the walk of the city of 
CUicbester, and gratifii^d the inha- 
bitants with the novelty of a fox-* 
chacc through several of their 
streets, maiiy of wliomr vfere in at 
the de^th,: poor Reynard . being 
shortly aft^wards killed lu the gar*- 
den of Col^ Brereton. 



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Captain. DarelPs hounds, on 
Wednesday, the 27th ult. started 
a hare near Attleborougb ball, 
Norfolk y she ran ia a N.£. direc- 
tion towards the bounds of Mor- 
ley, doulded and came back be-» 
tween the hall and the town ; then 
fai W. N. W. and S. W. directions 
across Attleboiough, Bllingbam, 



. Monday,, the 15tb, the Duke 
of Richmofid's hounds drew all 
the covers rotmd the kennel, with- 
out finding a fox. One sly cur, 
however, that had stolen out of the 
park, was struck upon^ and pur- 
suerl gallantly by the dogs for 
about ten minutes, when they wera 
at fault. During this interval, ona 
of the gayest horses of the field 
dropped dowu in ,» fit, ami died 

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THE'SPORTING MAGA^INB. 



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irtstantly, witbout betraying any 
symptoms of disease or distress. 



The Princesses Augusta and So- 
phia, attended by the Earlof Win- 
chilsea. Lady Paiilet, General 
Manners/and Colonel Taylor/took 
the diversion of coursing in the 
Little Park, Windsor, on Wednes- 
day, the a 0th instant. They ap- 
peared extremely delighted with 
the sport. Three brace and a half 
of hares tvere kilted. 



Sir George W. Leeds has rein- 
forced his foxhounds by the pur- 
chase of three additional packs, out 
of all of which he means to select 
only eighteen couple. Mr. Denn's 
celebrated Bedfordshire pack is one 
of this new levy. 



* A GBNTCrtirAN undertook lately 
to ride round Blenheim Park in 
half an hour, and performed the 
task in twenty-four minutes and 
ten seconds 5 the distance not quite 
nine miles. 



ton, for a considerable snm, was 
decided on Tuesday, the 2d instant^ 
near that town. Fropi the ac- 
knowledged celebrity of the re«* 
spective shots, bets to some amount 
were rh;pendiug on the result. The 
box was fixed at twenty-one yardt 
distance from the gun. Mr. Ar- 
cher Croft, and two Mr. Mcibdyt 
(brothers) were to fire at twelve 
birds each. Mr. Moody, sen, 
killed all his twelve birds; Mr. 
Moody, jun. killed eleven birdsi 
from his twelve shots 3 Mr. A. 
Croft killed ten. 

On Saturday, the 20th instant, a 
match of pigeon-shooting took 
place near Winchester, for twenty- 
five guineas aside, between Mr. R. 
Knight, of Barton Farm, near that 
city, and Mr. Harris, of Famham, 
which was decided in favour of the 
former, who killed eight birds out 
of eleven, and Mr. Hi three out of 
nine. 



Trotting Match. — On Thurs- 
day, the llth instant, a match for 
100 guineas took place between 
Mr. 8tokes*s Speculator poney, of 
Edgeware, and the Brompton 
Starter, belonging to Mr. Sanders, 
of Chelsea, on the Stanmore Road, 
Middlesex. The match was to 
start from the former place^ and 
^rot a distance of six miles on the 
road to Watford, in twenty mi- 
nutes^ which was completed by the 
latter in two minutes less than the 
given time. At starting, bets, were 
two to one against the winner. — 
There were several gentlemen 
Sportsmen present. 

PtOEON Shootinxj.— A pigeon 
match, formed between three ama- 
teur shots residing at Southamp- 
^ Voju. XU.— No. 045. 



Courage of the Foxhounii. — Oa 
the 6th of January last, the fox- 
hounds of Lieutenant-Gcneral Sir 
R. Hill, K. B. unkennelled a fox 
in the neighbourhood of Coija in 
Spain. The run was severe for 
the space of thirty minutes, when 
the fox, being sharply pressed by 
the leading hounds, leaped down a 
precipice of sixty yards perpendi-* 
cular. Seven couple of the hounds 
immediately dashed after him, six 
couple of which were killed on the 
spot. The remainder of the pack 
(twenty-two couple) would have 
shared the same fate, had not the 
most forward riders, among whom 
were Sir R. Hill, Colonel Delan- 
cey, and Colonel Rooke, arrived in 
time to flog them off, which they 
did with difficulty, being scarcely 
able to restrain their impetuosity. 
The fox was found in the bottom, 
dead, and covered with the budies 

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THB 8F0RTIN0 MAGAZINE. 



of .the hounds. The Marquis of 
Alameda* a Spanish NoUtmao of 
that part of the cQuotry^ narrowly 
.escaped being precipitated over the 
cliff, being mounte«l on a spirited 
horse, which at the moment he 
could not manage. 

Fedbstbianism. — Some little 
^time ago^ a match was obtained to 
find two men, one of whom was to 
run the Brighton Shepherd^ for one 
hundred yards, and the other to 
heat Uunsworth, the Lancashire 
man, for two miles, which was 
.done in a very neat manner, and 
very large sums were lost on the 
occasion. After the race, which 
was run over Langton Wold, the 
maker of the match, and the two 
men who lost, all went to Hoving- 
ham to divide the spoil. The take- 
in WAS discovered hy Hunsworth, 
being a quarter of an hour in run- 
ning the two milci, when he had 
performed it a little time before 
af;aiust Beale in something less 
than eleven minutes. 

Joseph' Beal, the Yorkshire lad. 
Is stated to have been challenged by 
the Kentish Butcher, to run either 
four miles or ten, for 500gs. or 
lOOOgs^ Our readers will recol- 
lect that the butcher lately per- 
formed the ilistance of ten miles, 
on Sunbury Common, in fifty-nine 
minutes and ten seconds, with ap- 
parent ease. 

A Mr. Yarrol performed a mile 
n five minutes, WedneRday, the 
lOtb inst. on the Uxbridge road, 
for a bet of 50gs, 

A few days ago, G. Sutherland, 
who wants bis right leg, and the 
greater part of his thigh, under- 
.took, for the bet of a guinea, to 
.walk on bis Crutch, fmm Valley- 
field to the centre of Culross, a 
distance of two miles, and return 
a^aiu in the space of thirty mU 



nntesj which he accomplished lA 
twenty -seven minutes and a half^ 
to the astonishment of a great 
number of spectators. 

EXTSAORDINART TbAVELLINC. 

— A Gentleman, who left the York 
House, Bath, on Monday^ the 13th 
ult. proceeded to Bxeter^ and tben 
putting about, passed through 
Bristol on the Wednesday^ and so 
on, by Gloucester, Worcester, 
Warwick, Birmingham, Derby, 
Leeds, and Newcastle, to Edin- 
burgh, which he reached on Sun- 
day morning, having been on the 
coach-box from Monday forenoon 
to Sunday morning, with the ex- 
ception of three hours in Bristol 
and two in Newcastle, driving a 
considerable part of the way. On 
being asked what could induce him, 
in such weather, and at thisseasou, 
to go through what in any weather 
would be commonly accounted ex- 
cessive fatigue, he answered ** Cus- 
tom is every thing. I should scarce- 
ly kn«w I had been travelling. As 
for the outside, that's matter of 
choice. I have done it from Bath 
once before, and often from Loo- 
don to Edinburgh, without stirring 
from the mail-box. I left Bath 
against my will, and could not 
bear stopping till I got to the place 
I was obliged to come to, and I 
should think a return to Bath just 
now easily obtained by double Cbe 
time on the box in any weather.** 
The ground gone over is better 
than six hundred miles, and the 
time one hundred and forty hours! 

Canine Affection. — A boj, 
about fourteen years of age, under 
shepherd to Mr. Ryde, of Tyting* 
near Guildford, Surrey, bung him- 
self on Friday, the *22d ult, in 
Ty ting-copse. His faithful Aog 
ran to the boy's brother, and by i^^ 

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raost significant gestures drew him penad in the comtnii^sioB of a 

to the fatal spot^ but too late to be breach of .the peace> a venliot of 

of any effectual serviice ; and when mamUmghter was returned. 

the body was conv^ed borne, no 

efforts could drive the animal from Two • persons, the oae calling . 

the room, where it lay prostrate by himself John Wakeman^ others ^ 

the corpse, exhibiting an example wise OornwalHs, of liepwell, and 

of fidelity, from which a useful the other BH ward WQrtin,.6fBiir- 

lesson might^ be drawn by many mingbaQi> are committed Co. Wor- 

who boast the exalted gift of cester gaol, charged on. the oath 

reason. * of Wm. Milb, a keeper to Loi*d 

— ^— Foley, with having- in the night 

On Saturday, the 13th inst. as tifiie feloniously broke and en^^red 

Ml. John Seahrook, of Springfield, the menagerie in Witley Park, with . 

Essex, was enjoying the sport of an intention to stealtbe pheasants 

coursing, with some friends^ he ac- there kept for breed. TheM. mftn 

cidentally slipped down in getting are supposed to he part oif a nu^-" 

over a gap, and his horse follow- merous gang of poachers, i who - 

ing too rapidly unfortunately hi^oke have long infested Worcestershire, ! 

bio leg. We are happy, however, Stafibrdshife, and the neigihbour- . 

to find that he is in a fair way of ing counties; When takmi they 

recovery. bad about them different nets and 

; ■ '■ ' poaching instrumeiits, and loaded : 

On Thursday, the 4th of this fire arms. .i. •. . . 

month, Benjamin Daven|>ort, a " .• 

butcher or drover, and a waggoner. On Tuesday, the 26th ult. Jas. 

of the name of Coxbead, haviiig Busby .was committed to Oxford 

had son^e high words at a public- gaol> for one year, for' having un- 

bouse, in the neighbourhood pf llwhiUy in his possession one faU : 

Newington, relative to a bet about low deer, 

some reckoning, agreed to adjourn <■ " " ■ 

to the fields to fight for a guinea. A N£)Toaioi;s poachen from 

They set to in the usual style of Houshara, of the name of Storry, 

boxers, and after forty minutes was taken <lt few days ago,, by Lopd 

hard fighting, Davenport was MiddIetoii:*s keeper, atWharram; 

knocked down by a severe round two others of the gang made their 

blow on the side of the head, escape. Tiie^ had seven banes con- 

which gave victory to hb antago- cealed in a sack. Storry has-been 

Bist, and caused the death of the committed to the House of Cor*?: 

vanquished^ who never recovered rection. 

cither bis speech or sense, although ■ 

he survived the contesc forty -eight. About ten days since, thr^e: 

hours. It was' proved that the par- pheasants vvere stolen from* the 

ties had gone out to fight by mu^ larder of a gentleman, of iBrighn: 

tual consent, and that many knock ton town, who, on the following 

down blows and heavy falb occurs day, actually purchased the same 

rpd during the combat. It was birds, at the market price, hut had 

the opinion of a medical gentle- not long paid for them, before.tbey 

man that his death was occasioned were identified by some of the ser* 

tv ^ b)<iif^ and such having bap* vants, to whom the $eller wa* 

n k 2 known^ 



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]£no^vii, vhieh led to the duco««iy 
of the diiefy who was taken up, 
and with his accomplice, coaimit- 
ted to the Black Hole; but we have 
not been informed of tbei issue of 
Ike boainess. 



Ox Friday, the 12th instant, 
Iiuke Rusby, of Btyton, near 
Gainshorougb, carpenter, was con* 
victed in the penalty of 5l. before 
the Magistrates at Brigg, for car- 
rying a gun in the lordship of Bly- 
borough, with intent to kiH game. 

Ill 

A nKTBCTLT white nit was 
caught in a gin on Tuesday night, 
tbe nth instant, in a barn, be* 
longing to R. W. MissSnf^, Bsq. of 
Foshrooke Cottage, in the neigh* 
bowhood of Portsmoatb, which 
lias been carefully stuflfed and pre- 
aaired as a fit object for the Baltish 
Museum. 



BETTINGS. 

Bettings at TattersaU*8 for the 
gr^at 3takes at J&p^om, {Newmar- 
ket, kc. 

DBSBT. 

S to 1 agst Brother to Thunder- 
bolt. ' . 
8 to ] agst Solyman, by Mim. 

J5 to 1 agst Ld Egremont's Ne- 
risKa cok. 

15 to 1 agst Lord Darlington's 
Orvilk coVt. 

90 to 1 agst QaiEzer. 

20 to r agst Mr. Vansittart's Po« 
pinjay coit. 

30 tb 1 agst Lord Grosvenor*s 
colt. 

20 to 1 agst Brother to Fan. 



. . OA&S. 

8 to- I agst Vale Royal. 
H to 1 agst Lord George Caven- 
dfebs filty. 

12 to 1 agst Sister to Woeful. 

13 to 1 agst Dtike 6i Ratland's 

Sell at filly. 

1000 to 20 agu naming footk wia- 
pers. : . ; 



• 


. 


Oatlands, 
First Class. 


s 


to 


X ag;st Mulberry. 


6 


to 


1 ag&t Sorcery. 


7 


to 


1 agst Pope Joaq. 


7 


to 


1 agst Venture. 


w 


to 


1 agst Handel. 
Secfmd Class. 


9 


to 


2 agst Giiiualkin. 


6 


to 


1 agst Orelia. 


7 


to 


1 agst.Woefirf. 
Third Class. 


5 


to 


i agstTooley. 


6 to 


1 agst Amazon colt. 


8 


to 


1 agst Cambric. 


8 


to 


1 agst Mantidamun^ 


10 to 


1 agst Orson. 



Newntarkei Fast Spring Meet" 
ing.' ' "A Match betwoeo Mr. 
Payne's Crispin, ^st. and Mr. 
Bnieo*s Holyoak, Sst. OTer B. C. 
for 2000g8. p. p.— Many thpusands 
are already depending' on this 
match.— 'Betting at present, 6 to 5 
on Crispin.-^Holyoak is an Irish- 
bred horse, and the race is expect** 
ed to excite more iivteMst, and 
attract a greater coheourse to 
Newmarket, than that between 
Hambletonian and Diamond. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



DioMED, we shall en- 



Tat wish of our Correspondent, with respect to Gjl^t 
^eavour to grattfy next Month. 

Erratum.*— At the bottom of the Portradt of Captain Bayday^ it sfanuld hate 
faeea^ mentioned aa <' Captain Barclat, in hupxdkim tbreu.** 



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POETRY- 



THE HIGH COURT OF DUN4. 



WALTZING. 



A modern hero fought for moiiUsh.tDsn* 



ners ; 



From a highhf'lvdicrous Poem just puh- 
Usked, entitled, «* fFidtz: an Apos- 
truphic Hynrn. — By Horace Homgm^ 
Esq." 



MUSE of the many^t winkling 
fc«t ! — ^wbose charms 

Are now extended up from lega^.to arms ; 

T«r||iiscboie ! — too long misdeemed sr 
maid — 

Repioa0hltti tem^— bestowed but lo up- 
braid-— 

Henceforth in all the bmnze of bright- 
ness shine. 

The least a vestal of the Ticgio Nine. 

Far be ffom thee and thine the name of 
Pxttde*; 

Mocked, yet triumpbant, sneered at, un- 
su*bdued, 

Thy legs must moye te conquer as they 
. %, 

If but>thy -coats are reasonably high ; 

Thy breast — if bare enoughs-requires no 

shield ; 
i)ahce forth — tans armour thou shalt 

take the field. 
And own — ^impregnable to most assaults, 
iThy not too lawfully begotten " Waltz." 

Hail nimble nymph! tp whom the 

young hussar. 
The whiskered votary of Waltz and 

. " war— 
His night devotes, despite of spur and 

boots, 
A sight unmatched since Orpheus and 

his brutes : 
Hail spirit-stirring Waltz I — ^beneath 

whose banners 



On Houfislow's Hea^ to rival HHellst- 

ley'-s iarae, 
Cocked-^fired — ainl missed his inftn-« 

but gained his aim. ' * 

Halt moving Muse ! — to whom the fair* 

one% bf edst 
Gives all it can~-and bids us take the 

rest. 
Oh ! for the flow of Bushy, iar of Fitz, 
The latter's loyalty, (be former's wits, 
l^o ** energise the object I punue," 
And give both Belial and Jhis4lAnce theif 

duel- 
Imperial Waltz f imported fitbm the 

Rhine, 
(Famed for the growth of pedigrees and 

wine,) 
Long be thine import from all duty free. 
And hock itself be less -esteemed than 

thee;- 
In sonie few qualities alikfr— 'for hock 
Improves our celbtf— XAen our iiving 

stock. 
The head to hock belongs**-thy subtler 

art 
Intokicstcs alone the heedless heart ; 
Through the full veins thy gentler poison 

swims, ' 

And wakes to wantonness the wtlUng 

limbs. 

. Endearing Waltz— to thy morexnelt* 

ing tufje 
Bow Irish jig — and ancient rigadoon | 
Scotch reels avaunt!— >and couiitry dance 

forego 
Vour future claims to each fantastic toe ; 
Waltz— Waltz -alone both arms >nd 

legs demands. 
Liberal of feet— and lavish of her hands ; 

Hands 



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Hands Wliich may freely range in public 

sight, 
Where ne'er before— but— pray " put 

out the light." 
Mcthinks the glare of yonder chandelier 
Shines much too &r — or 1 am much too 

near; 
And true, though strange— Waltz whis- 
pers this remark, 
•* My slippery steps are safest in the 

dark." 
But here the Muse with due decoiuin 

halts. 
And lends her longest petticoat to 

" Waltz." 



A FOX-HUNTING SONG. 

Ikdicattd to JJeiOenant^OoUmel Cookc^ Uo" 
nager of the Mtsex Hunt, 

'"piS the horn's shrilly sound that calls 

nsaway, 
Tis the huntsman's sweet halloo I 

hear; 
With hounds so delighted, with horses 

so gay. 
In what spirits do sportsmen appear ! 
Whilst thro' the thick covert, see how 

the pack dash ! 
And what courage! what ardour! 

they shew-— 
There's a challenge, I swear*-rand bark 

what a crash ; 
. fhcy have fpund<!— ;here he goes— 

falty-ho I 

For the Rooihiitgs they're gone, and if the 
scent lies. 
There's no country on earth, that's so 

gOOQ } 

And beUofe me, you'll - find before the 
fox dies. 
He wtU prove your nags bottom and 
blood. 
See Solomon flies to the head of the 
pack 5 
Look ! how Bustler and Caroline go — 
Now Saladin leaids tbtm; and if yon 
ride slack. 
You will ne'er hear the next Tally-ho ! 

What tumult f what joy! what delight 
in the chase, * 
Every hound . strains his sinews to 
lead ; 
Each horseman resolves every danger to 
foce. 
And each horse is contending for 
speed. 



They now go apace— What a buist \w$ 
they had ! 
But they stoop— see their noses are 
low; 
Ham well they ^11 hunt— yet the scent 
is so bad. 
We shall ne'er again cry — Talhy-iio I 

Now Sportsmen beware, and don't cross 
o'er Uie grounds. 
There's a check, they have headed the 
fox ; ' 
Hold hard, till the Colonel has cast his 
crack hounds. 
Or you'll find you are in the wrong 
box. 
But Tamerlane feathers,* and Roundelay 
flings. 
Like an arrow that's shot from a bow ; 
And Streamer gives tongue — now the 
welkin loud rings. 
There's a halloo agsiin — Tdtty-ho t 

Now, now, then once more give your 
horses the rein, • • * 

Hark forward, my boys, get along ; 
Look, look, at the hounds, bow they i»ce 
o*er the plaift. 
Who says, that the leaps are too 
sttong? 
No fence upon earth can the Essex Hunt 
stop. 
See yonder, like lightning tbey go! 
There ! — the fox runs in view-^the hounds 
the hedge top, 
They have kill'd him— liTAo-oop-T. 



HOME AND HEREFORDSHIRE, 

Written bv J. M. Lacey, 

Author of " The Farm House,'* and other 
Poems, And sung by Mr. R, Sfmith, 
at the last Anniversary of the Usreforcii 
shire Society, 



f O £4igUshmen dear is the land pf tbeif 
•birth, 
" For dear is the tie that our country 
entwineth," 
But in that wide space there's a small 
spot of earth,' 
And round each man's home a bright 
ray ever shineth : 
Then Hereford boys. 
Raise loud ev'ry voice, 
In remembVing a birth pl4ce f^ beau- 
teous rejoice ; 

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jLa<X be thU our motto» ** Content, and 

good cheer 
Are the comforts of botne ahd of Here* 
fordshire." 

^is an Eden in \>looniy 'tis an Eden in 
fruit, 
And fair as were Eve's are its daugh- 
ters* fair features ; 
If they tempt with an apple who'd slight 
their kind suit, 
Forhliss only waits their temptattoOt 
dear creatures : 
Some sing girls of old, 
Who tie DOW dead and col<^ 
But a lass that's alive in my arms let 
• ipe foldy 
And I'll teach her to sing that *' Content 

and good cheer, . 
Are the comforts of home and of Here- 
fordshire." 

We can boast of our heroes, whose hearts 
boU and brave. 
Taught their foes to respect, by a les- 
son to fear 'em ; 
And no one is here to base terror a slave. 
We would fight as they fought, f6r we 
love and revere 'em : 
If our country e'er call, 
We will rise one and all. 
For home would be lost if that country 
should fall. 
And our foes we will teadx, that content 

and good cheer. 
Are the comforts of home and of Here- 
fordshire. 

Hospitality's dictates still blest our dear 
home ; 
To that should the waiulerer's foot- 
steps direct him. 
There while he shall rest, though he's 
doom'd far to roam. 
Hospitality's welcome is sure to pro- 
tect him. 
Then the glass mantling high. 
Shall check his deep sigh. 
While a tear of delight shall bedim his 
sadeyq; 
£ut his heart shall confess, that content 

and good cheer, 
Are the comforts of home and of Here- 
fordshire. 

Be my countrymen ever to loyalty true^ 
While liberty's banner o'er Britain is 
waving ; 
Accurs'd be the man who bids Liberty 
rue« 
01 would dare lend his band to his 
^ ^ eouotrjf's enslaving. 



Now let us implore* 
l^at till time be no more. 
This Sode^'s fiiends may inccease ia 
their store ; 
And for centuries sing that content and 

good cheer. 
Are the comforts of home and qfHer^ 
/ordshire i 



SONG, 

Sung by Mr. JohnBUmey this Months mt 
Drury-Lane, in an uluuccessfiil Farce^ 
called <«Tiis Absent AFOTiiBCAaY." 



pROM great Londonderry, to London 
so merry, 
My own natty self in a waggon did 
ride ; 
In London so frisky, folks ride In a whis^ 
key; 
At Connaught they carry the whisky 
inside ; 
I jamp'd from the waggon, and saw s 
Green Dragon ; 
I spy'd a Ulue Boar when I tam*d t« 
the South ; 
At the Swan wid Two Throttles I tippled 
two bottles. 
And bother'd the beef at the Bull and 
the Mouth. 
Ah! Paddy, my honey^ look a'teryotic 
money, 
Tis all botheration from bottom m 
top. 
Sing diddero daisy, my jewel be aisy. 
This London, agrahl is the deviTs 
own shop. 

The great City Waxwork was all a mere 
tax-work, , 
A plan to bambooxle me oat of my 
pelf. 
Says I, Mrs. Salmon, cup none of yoqf 
gammon. 
Your figures are no more alive than 
' . yourself. 

I ax'd an old Quaker the way to Long* 
acre; 
With thee and with thou be so bo- 
, ther'd my brain. 
After fifty long sallies throttgb. lanes and 
blind allies, * 

I found myself trotting in KoKtOMtfuf 
lane. 
Ab! Paddy»ac. 

V 

At night, O how silly, along Ficoadilly . 
i wander'd, when up G0pi«a beautiHd 



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Huzza! says the lady, how do you do 

^ddy? 
* Says I pretty wfell^ Ma'am, 1 hopeyou'rc 

the same $ 
A'gteat hulkmg fellow, who held her 
umbrella, 
Thfh i^vc ttic a terrible thump on the 
Dob, 
She ran away squalling, I ** Watch ! 
watch !' was bawling, 
*Tbe devil a watch wa& there left in my 
fob. 
Ah! P^dy, my honey, look a'ter yov 
money, 
Tis all bothefatioa ham bottom to 
top. 
Sing diddero daisy, my jewel, be aity, 
This London, agrah I is the, devil*s 
own shop. 



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THE EXPOSTULATION. 



For ihtjlhme she has raised, will bow 
never decrease, 
Tho* she feed it no Irtger n'ltiijutl! 

Blitif, grown cold herself, her wish rra% 
is this, 
(Forbid it, in pity, kind Heaven !) 
She in justice, at least, should repay mt 
a kiss, 
In return for each kiss I have given ! 

THE LIFE OF AN OLD WOMAN. 
WRlTTaH BY Haatii,ff* 

J^ Game of Whist is mydelvgtit ; 

This I cottld play from mom to night | 
But 'tween this wicked world and heav'n. 
To keep the didh a Httle even, 
I read my chapters, say my prayers. 
And regulate my church affairs. 
' 1 ne'er forget) as I'm a sinner. 
To talk with conk about ray dinner. 
And take my glass a little hearty. 



^NE evening at parting, a kiss was im- To chctr me for tlac evening party. 



pressed 

On Eliia'a dear cheek, ere I meant it ; 
Tho' the deed of a moment, 1 boldly con- 
? • • fess'd . 

An age would not make me repent it. 

Tor 1 looked in her eyes, and I argu'd 
from them. 



Meantime myself for to amuse 
I tell my maid to bring the News : 
Am glad to hear the French are beat, 
And are cut up in their retreat. 
But this to me no pleasure brings. 
Like to the Hishfy of Four Kings* 
With Love I've nothing now to do, 

heart or two f 



Tu-* A . '-. M ♦ ' t Yet love,whcn trumps, a hes 

That thetr anger Would neer make Thus 1 dra^ on from day to . 



me rue it ^ 
^ftnd when eyes thus tnvile us, ah ! who 

can condemn 
. If we yield to temptation, and do it f 

By smiles thus encouraged, nojrowns to 
repel, 
I continued to give — she receive them ; 
And each night, when her lips kindly 
said, " Fare thee well" 
In a kiss I replied, ** J beliem them !" 

« 

^is a freedom that mellows Love into 
esteem. 
That fixes the mind when it wavers ; 
•Artd 'tho* but a trijie to her it may seem. 
To me *^tis the greatest of favours. 

For oft, when epprest by the Demon of 
woe. 
In her lips have ITound a Physician, 
«4nd oan'she suppose 1 wotild freely 
forego. 
The advantage of 9i£ch a permission ? 

l^she iHia ** \t is tftne the permissidn 
r: <%hoil)d cease," 

Can Eliza indeed be ao^rwel ! 



ag on from day to day, 
And thoughts of dying put away. 
The Vicar seem'd to me hum-drum 
In his broad hint of <* Kingdom Come/* 
To be pack'd off I can't agree — 
Old England's good enough for me." 



IMPROMPTU, 

On B<maparle's sending' to Pmitfor fvf 
hundred Mills, far the Grsind Army* 



'T^HE Emperor Nap, with provident 
haste, 
Ordercd^ve hundred mills to be sent in 
a trice, 
Resolv'd the '• Grand Army" should have 
a Iread feast, - 
As horse-flesh is tough, and French 
stomachs ari nice. 
But the Muscovite Czar, who pitied his 
case. 
Resolved to assist this mighty map- 
killeir. 
And, forgetting bis wrongs, with ttue 
Christian grace, 
Prince Kutu^sent, t&lehtsius^mUm- 

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CONTENTS. 



Froiitbpiece to the Volume, Hippolytua .. .ftftS 

Betting* at Tattersall't >. ..*, ftM 

Henry Buabury, Eaq ^.» 854 

On the Colour of Childen.. . 854 

Aocotmt of WOIiaoi Baldock, Ee^ .855 

Huatiag.... ; .. , tM 

Nataoaal Maanersof tbeMoon ..*.. .fta^ 

Dram-drinking Vindicated ^i 

Pedigiee' aiid Performances of Grey Diome^ 968 

Case of Hydrophobia cooed '. .. . 864 

OoTraioiag « 866 

Sagacity of a Onybound .. . > 87t 

^ew Worlkon Ahimals '.. . . ,.. 279 

print ofhisMi^jMty's Harriers 276 

Canine Madness in Sussex 87tf 

Trial of U«ut. Stewart for Duelling ^ ..877 

Cb aracteris tic Anecdote of a Frenchman ... 878 

Ancient Customa 879 

Qa the presumed Consequences to Society, of 
equal Rankin Marriages aeo 



Biography veductd to ller Seqyet 

Goitrt-Martial on lieoMBaBVOolonel Bal. 
four, of the Second Drsf oom as4 

Sending En^ish ^art Hwict to Morocco • . .sss 

Bprse-Stealers «ad PCNichars 886 

1 Natural History 6f the Oticney liUm^ . ...88t 

ftising at a Leap * n..^:.. .ABO 

* UtwCase^-$bootaBgofPoiatert ....... . .890 

^ASTOFWIT i.. 8*1 

SP6rTIN6 INTELLIGENCE ' 899 

To Correspondenta> , ..« ..... .sftd 

POETTRV. ^ 

Tears of Fits- Arthur : sot 

PoeticalDtscription of a Game, called t)»« 

Jew Ml 

Sprightly 30» 

A Winter's Day ^os 

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I INDEX 



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I. 4 ridHyengnved Frontispiece to the Forty^Jirst Volume^ HiprotTTua. 

II. ^VlONETTE TlTLE-fAOt. 

liL RiexNG AT A Leap, an Etching bjf Mr, Mafwitt» 



— .<■* 



Bsessss 



PBATH OF HIPPOLYTUS. 



sTllONTISPJECE TO THE FORTY- 
' FIRST VOLUME. 

Jtn JBngraieii^ iff Seottyjroma Painting by 
Cboper. 

l^E have again recurred to that 
copious source^ the Heathen 
Mythology, for a subject to em* 
hellish the present Volume of our 
work. — Hippolytus, we are in- 
formed « was son of Theseus «and 
l)lppo!yte^ famous for his viitues' 
and his misfortunes. His step- 
iqother Pbsdra fell in love with 
}i\m, and when he refused to pol- 
lute his father's bed^ she accused 



him of offering violence to her 
person, before Theseus. Her ac-« 
cusation was readily believed, and 
Theseus entreated Neptune severe^ 
ly to punish the Incontinence of 
his son. Hippolytus fled from the 
resentment of his father, and, as 
he pursued his way along the sea- 
shore, his horses were so frightened 
at the noise of sea-calves, which 
Neptune had purposely sent there, 
that they ran among the rocks till 
his chariot was broken and his 
body torn to pieces. Temples 
were raised to his memory, par- 
ticularly at Troezene, where he 
received divine honours. Accord • 
ing CO some accounts, Diana re« 
stored him to life. 

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fidSn^IIiGS. • 

TRE'JTINGs'arTattcrsflirs for 
^^ tlie great Stakes 2X Epsooi 
auid'Ke^niarkeC. 

DERBY) 
fr. 7. to. I. agSt S(%4lljMI» 

8 toi .1 flgit Jftfiotbof . la Tltun^ 

1.5 16 I agst Calibart. 

15; to 1 ag«t Lqi-^ Pjirlingtoa'* 

wit re colt.' 
J d to . 1. 9^1 Alcf^L 



8 to 1 figst CanlbribI; 
lO to I agst Octavhii. 

lOOO to 18 agst namiiig the wii» 



Tbe matcb lietween Mr. Payne's 
Crisfio, ttn<l Mr. Bra«i*a Holy* 
hooky will be run in tbe Newmar* 
ket Second Spririg Meeting, 

LaU dojf of $b4 FueM Spring 
MeeUng^-^Mr, Bnien'a Holybodi; 
8st. lOlb. against tbe Duke of Rut-^ 



lu lo.i. aips^/jKc^u - ^, lantfs Elizabeth, 8st. 2H). 20Cte8, 
10 to i . ag^ Lord figremont a. ^ ^ ^^^^ ^j j^^^ ^il^ • '^^ 

■Necissa. 
16 to 1 agst Quiczer. ^^'^ ^P^^g Mee^^Mr. 

Id to 1 agstMx- VanMttarfa Brucn's Holybock. 8st, plb. agst 

Popiqjay CplU ¥r. Craven's Tooley, ^st. dlb, 

IB to 1 agat Brother to Pbin. Ditcb-iu, apOgs, h, ft. 

ID to 1 aest Holybock winninE 

«^'^»- ^allthree. ^ 

' • to 1 agst Vale Royal. ' '' . ^^ 

10 to i atjst Lord G. Gaven- ■ ■ ^. . ■ r . ■■ ■ ^ == 

dish. 
12 to I agst Duke of Grafton*a 

. Woodbine miy/' 
12 to 1 agst Duke of Rtulaad^a 

filly, by iielim. 



fr 



r 5 to t agst Mulberry. 

6 to I agst Pope Joaa.. 

7 ^^^ 1 **gs* Sorcery. 
'I9 to 1 agst Venture.^ 
'10 to I agst fitandel. 

. SECOND' CLA.S8% 

g to, 2 agst Gritnaikiii. 
O to' 1 ag!jt Orelia. 
7 to 1, agst M^oeful, 

.XO to. I agst Boaster. 

• '•■■•" 

tmxa C£Ass; 

1 1 t»H agst Amazon colt 
ii to a agst Tooley. 
9'. to 1 agst Maatidanuin'. 



lifiNRY BUNBURY, ESQ. 

Tq, .tjie Editof of the Sporting Mu^ 

SIR, 

TN your memoir of tbe late Henr^' 
Biip^ry, Esq. yoa praoiisad,* 
list of bis works. 1 can inforin^ 
ymi, tb%t tw9 Urge f^Uo v^Aiunei^ 
of them/ confining ^12. prints^ 
many of them proofs, sold at tbe 
l^ike ofvRlM^^fl^)*^ saj4| in U%yL 
last, for 3ll.40s.— 4 am. Sir, &c. 

&C. P-ttUiO-BUNBtTRY. 



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ON THB COXiOUR Of CiHI^^ 
DERS, 



To the Editor of the Sporting ^ftf^1 
gaxine, 

SIR, 

T Perceive tbat in your Number . 
f6r November, Mr. Lawrence 
has answered my en^uiry^ wby be 

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Jitti described Flying Cbilders as a 
themut borse? by saying, ** there 
it a portrait^ ^^bich be beliepes to 
be original, wbich represmts bini 
as a cbesnut." Jn opposition to 
this supposed original, I shall quote 
two which are uitdoubiedl^ such ; 
▼iz. one by Seymour, in- the col- 
lection of the Duke of Devonshire, 
to whose ancestor Cbilders be- 
longed : dnd another in the pos- 
session of Dr. Sandiver, of New- 
Ji^arket, by Wootton, Jn lK>tb of 
which be is i*epresented as a bay 
horse. 

Mr. Lawrenoe says, that ** the 
matter at present remains in ob- 
scurity ;** but in my opinion, there 
can be no more doubt that Cbilders 
was 710^ a chesnut, than that King 
Herod was not a grey, or Gimcrack 
a black horse. The picture, to 
which Mr. Lawrence refers, may 
very probably be ati driginal one, 
Imt not of Cbilders^ and was, 
perhaps, s6!d as ai likeness of hiin, 
to some person ignorant on these 
subjects, by way of enhancing its 
vtfiue.—i-Mr. Lawrence says, " he 
is awar^ tbsit his fcolour is general- 
ly supposed bay,*' and I cannot 
but wonder, that be (who is in 
general very well informed on tl»e 
subjects of which hie treats), should 
st> hastily have decided on Cbii- 
<ters being a chesnut, on the mere 
authority of one solitary picture, 
and that only believed to l)e an ori- 
ginal. 

Mr. LaiVrence, (as far as I can 
Judge from bis works), is not only 
a person of considerable ability, 
but also possesses much good sense, 
and I trust he will excuse my con- 
cluding this lettef, with recom* 
ihending him, in any future pubf 
licatioti, tiot to adopt new ideas, 
in opposition to generally received 
^piniond, unless they can be sup- 



ported by the strongest j>06&iblet 
evidence. — J am, Str, your s, ic. 
A Constant Usades* 
Londoh, March 9. 

P. S. ] sball take this oppdrlu* 
itity of noticing another . inaocitrai-. 
cy in Mr. Lawrence's History of. 
the Horse; b^ calls Gohanna *'.tbe 
best four-mile horse of hi» day/*. 
How happened it then, thai thongb! 
Waxy and be frequently ran four 
miles togetlier, Gobanna nevrreoce 
won, when they m^t at eveik- 
weights ? 



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William baldock, esq. 

To the Editor of the Sporting Md^ 

gazine. 

SIR, 

S J am a constant reader of, 
your entertaining Miscellany,. 
I cannot refrain from expl^ssin^ 
my surprise ^nd i'egret that pone 
of its niimerouft correspondents 
have made any comment or remark 
on tbe death of one of the greatest 
advocates of the turf, William Bal- 
dock, Esq. which event happened, 
at his bouse at Petlmro, about four 
miles from this city, the 21st of 
December last. 

Mr. Baldock began bis career in 
life in tbe most hnmblei of stations, 
but by tbe closest assiduity to busi- 
ness, tbe utmost integrity in all his 
transactions, and tbe smiles of 
Dame Fortune, he amassed pro- 
perty generally reported to tbe 
enormous amount of three hundred, 
thousand pounds. Be that as it 
may, the whole he has left to the . 
numerous progenies of distant re-^ 
lations, in tbe same judicious and. 
prompt manner with which it bad 
been realised. 

Mr, B, was forn^erjy Clerk of^ 
L 1 2 tbe 



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tbe Race-course, and, while hold- 
ing that situation, displayed his 
usual activity ; and, from bis con- 
nexion with Newmarket^ Epsom, 
&c. the meetings bad to boast then 
86 much Sfiort as almost any course 
in the kingdom ; visitors from all 
pmtts of the county thmnged into 
iht city ; and these weeks were to 
tbe inhabitants in general and inn- 
keepers a complete harvest. He 
also at the same time kept several 
bones in training, some of them of 
tlw first rate 5 viz. Ostrich, Hop- 
planter, Hop-picker, Brewer, and 
Buckingham^ and which were al- 
ways at the disposal of the stew- 
ards and gentlemen, whenever the 
sport was expected to he bad with- 
out them. The multiplicity of 
business which be was engaged in, 
prevented his giving so much at- 
tention to this concern as be could 
li^ish ; and at last compelled him 
to resign, to the regret of th^ ad- 
mirers of the turf, andiu particular 
the inhabitants, who bad been 
greatly benefited by bis exertions. 
And I am sorry to say, since that 
time, not only the sports, but the 
attendance of genteel company to 
these races, /have most visibly fallen 
off) but whether it arose from 
that circumstance, or that this 
manly sport was altogether, in the 
southern part of England, on the 
decline, I am not able to state. 

Aliont ^ve years since^ upon one 
,o{ his relations having the situa- 
tion of Clerk of the Course, he 
)nirchased several blood horses, for 
the purpose of keeping up tbe re- 
spectaiiility of the races. Rabbit, 
his favourite horse, which was 
bought of Lord Osborne, contri- 
1)Uted much to the sport, though 
generally unsuccessful. The last 
lie purchased whs. Ex{)ectation, a 
three-year-old colt, by Orville, and 
which dikjilttved last year great 



racing qualities^ and, I believe, kt 
now kept in training by his ne- 
phew, the successojT to the bulk of 
his fortune. 

The above is tbe outline of this 
great raan*s life which appertains 
to this work, and coming from the 
]Ten of a person, not any ways in-. 
terested by any of his acts, *tis 
not the idle work of prejudice, but 
of an impartial admirer of hi& 
filer Us, which have been so greatly 
traduced in some of tbe prints of 
the day ', no doubt at the insti- 
gation of some '^ disappointed 
man." T. O. 

Canterhuryy March ^, 1813. 



HUNTIN6. 



on 



Thursday, the 26th ult. tbe 
Finden Fox Hounds (Sussex), 
kept up the sports of the field in a 
very capital style. They found in 
Lilly Holt, on the side hill, nigh to 
Washington, which reynard left 
to try the earths at Lion's-bank, 
but refused them ; he then made 
a short turn or two about Whiston, 
after which he set his head straight 
down wind, and was killed, after 
a most gallant chase of an hour 
and thirty-two minutes, close to 
West Grinsted Park. The hounds 
were not cast once during tbe run, 
and went at their best pace, run- 
ning into their brush-fallen victim 
from scent to view. The chase 
lasted an hour and ten minutes. 



On Saturday, the 28th ult. the 
Renfrewshire Harriers threw oflf 
at Kihnalcom, and after a run of 
fifteen miles, the hare was so hard 
pressed, that she took into the 
Clyde, within a quarter' of a mile 
of Poit Glasgow. Two of the^ 
learling bounds dashed into the 

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titer, followed by the whole pack. 
Poor puss would have been killed 
io the water, but for a party of 
gentlemen shooting in a boat, who 
took her up alive, about three hun- 
dred yards from the shore. She 
iVUM so exhausted that she died a 
few minutes after being brought (o 
land. 

On Tuesday, tbe 9th instant, 
the Harriers belonging to Sir Ed- 
ward Smythe, Bart, of Acton Bur- 
nell, Salop, unkenneled a fox at 
Frudesley-MiU; and reynard broke 
over for Broom, Church Preen, 
Holt, Lushoott, Loogville, Wen- 
lock's-hedge, Lutwytche, MilU- 
chope-Park, Munslow, Aston, 
Diddlebury, Hazledine Wood, 
Norton's Camp, Seifton Wood, 
and Corfton*s Batch, where he was 
killed in a roost gallant style, after 
a chase of three hours and a half, 
and almost without a check. 

On Saturday, the 13th instant, 
the pack of Mr. Goocb, of Woot- 
ton, had a most excellent day in 
the nei^bourhood of Norwich. 
The hare started from the grounds 
at the back of Catton^ and chal- 
lenged the country to Spixworth 
and St. Faith's, making a surpris- 
ing double, back again to Catton, 
and thence to Mile Cross, where 
she was killed, after a run of an 
hour aiM three quarters, without 
a dieck at any one time exceeding 
tbe space of a minute. 

On Wednesday, the 3d instant, 
the fox hounds of J. Colby, E8<|. 
of Fynone« drew the diflferent co- 
vers of Llanfimacb, Dolewlllim, 
and Llanwinio, and at a late hour 
found a most gallant fox in tbe 
neighbourhood of Llanboidy; he 
immediately made for Carn-Ingley, 
but being too hard pressed, he ran. 



the wind down HeaMdan, Faall- 
Howell, and Penhendriw, ait whicli 
cover a fresh fox bi >ke off in view 
of three cou]ile of tbe tail bounder 
was pursued, and kitled on Llantir- 
nach Mountain, after a tedious run 
in making for Carn-Menio, leavinjg 
three- and- twenty couple running 
the hunted fox over Cribin and 
Cwmcloch ; but, being headed 
near Plaes Park, made short back 
to tbe right of Peurbeol, and wat 
run into in an open (leJd, in front of 
Meidrim village, after a complete 
burst of five hours and forty mi« 
nutes. 



On Monday, the 8th instant, m 
bag fox was turned out before Lord 
Whitworth*s hounds, on Ashdowa 
Forest, which afforded a moot 
excellent chase to a nnmePOHt 
field, dying gaUantly, after many 
vigorous and wily exertions to es- 
cape. A gentleman who wished 
to time the run of reynard, on ap* 
plying bis band to his fob, disco* 
vered, to his great mortification, 
that he had lost a valuable gold 
watch. 



The Sinnington hounds, (York- 
shire) after a great many good rum 
this season, several of twenty 
miles, had a most severe one c^ 
five hours, on Tuesday, the 9th in- 
stant. After trying Haugh and 
Biansby park, found in Newton 
banks; the fox stole away, the 
hounds were presently out of'^cover^ 
and followed him at an amazing 
rate straight to Lingmoor, heating 
the horses that had a fair start 
with tbem quite out of sight in tlie 
first three miles, and they went the 
first eight miles in half an hour.—- 
Tbe hounds were about ten mi-* 
nutes at fault in the cover, and 
then went to €rarrihiU and Hut ton 
bank top ', the fox, it is siippoeed, 

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had >f eft beaded tliere, a» he tDrii-« ; 
ctf bfcck across Spauntoii and A|>- 
pleton fields to Sinnington bags : 
s^LirtMig tbe top of the cover> and > 
tbfougb pait of Mr. Skockdale'a 
wo€k1, he turned sbort, aod went 
foiT tbe Skipsters^ wbicb be ran Rp> 
and then turned tor tbe Sao-Seven. 
and Coultbard scar earths^ find- 
iag Ibem fast^ he wade for Howl-> 
gata bead^ up Appleton banks and ' 
Haniky-dale, over tbe fields to- 
near SpaHntonj be then twisted, 
giansg to Ltngmoor spring wood, . 
or0i: Ii/ingiAoor, to Rumsdnle^ 
where be bad been sknlking > tbe 
boandS'Were here fi^ve inhiiites at 
fairlt. He nnw took up Doutb- 
Waite*Kbile, crossed over near the 
high end to Hutton fiauks, frooi 
tbeiiiee down to^ and across Llng- 
inaor> down the east side» and 
crossed back again at tbe low end> 
anil over to loadwath, dowi»to 
Yoiipag's baokf near Yapley earths, 
tbqii turnedi <^er tbe fields to Cap« 
htfifif up it, and over the fields al- 
Vfiosf to GittimGrar, back again over 
Haligate nioor, to Rumsdalea and 
over to Hutton hank top quairys^ 
where be saved himself in an opett 
sea«n, the bounds being within a 
lew bmidred yarda of him, going 
at full H})eed with a good bead ami 
» high s«ent. And thus ended a 
cbase of nenr fifty miles, the pack 
ranning most of the time in the 
highest style, seldom allowing the 
horses to come near them. 



On Monday, the 15th instant, 
Mr. Far<|tih arson's hounds left Cat- 
tistock, (Dorset) after having had 
soou^ of the finest rnns ever wit- 
nessed in that coiuitv. — On Fri* 
day, tbe 5th, the bounds met at 
Wynyar<rs Gap, when a fox whs 
instantly hallooed away, and gal- 
lantly run into in eighteen minutes. 
Tbe bottDds drew on to Pen wood. 



Cokerwood, tfarovgb tTie HaTafocfc 
covers, to Melbury, where a mosf 
ctt|)ital fox was instantly unketi^^ 
neied, and broke cover at belf past. 
two o'clock by Lonl llchester's 
houses, over Bere eaitbs, to CbeU 
borough and Halstock 'bottom^ 
where he was headed, ami imme- 
diately returned by Corscoarvbe cop- 
pice to East Chelborougb, Beu- 
vitte-Iane, through Ridge^ Ra^- 
|Mfihiim, skirting WraxaU, ran the- 
whole of CbilfroiAe down to TtA" 
krfoni, then cvosscd tlie hills to 
Wonford, and then- tnn»ed, leaviiig 
Croxton fnvxe to tbe Hght, and 
swam the riwr at Dowi*Fionie, 
forced Maiden Newton hilh, thro' 
Syfiling park coppice to Matson, 
over the vrater, nionntedlbe bill to 
Godmanstone down to Forston, 
through GiinKtone atad Strattoti to 
Charminster down-^wbere, from-, 
the severity of tl»e run aiul lateness 
of the day, the chase was given up.- 
Out of a very numerotis field col- 
lected from I lie neighbotinng conn- 
ties, a very few only witnessed the< 
tenuinatibn of tlie dity's aport ; 
among them may be enunierated 
the master of tbe pack, the Karl» 
of Digby and Kchester, Mr. Orove, 
Mr,fiaring, Mr. llellyar,Mr. Bat- 
ler, Mr. R. Bridge, Mr. NicbolJs, 
and Mr. Smith.-^The distress and 
misery which befel a nutltitnde o# 
horses ami their riders, beggaf ail 
description. 



NATIONAL MANJfERS OT* THE 
MOOUS. 

TPHR inhabitants of tbe Empire' 
of Morocco, may be divided 
into foar classes. Moors, Arabs; 
Bereb!ieTs,a»d Shellubs. 

The Moors are tht? descendants 
oi'tboae who were driven, out of* 

Spain ', 



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^mltt^ tley iliM»i( the oiricvcif leel 'oi tfa^ ancient Gartbagiauuft 

McwocoOy.FaSy Meq«M««B) nukd^ all In travelling through the Berebbet 

the coast' toWD$, a« fav aoathward Kaliy^ of Ait imure and Zemure 

«s the |irov4oce oi Haba. Their ^belltib, i noticed many who poa* 

langua^ is a corrupt, Arable, ia^ tesatd<the old Roman pbyaiogiiomy* 

ti^rmixed witb Sf a»isli. The general* occupation ol: theia 

Tba- Arab^'b^^e <hoiv original people is hiisbaodry, aadlbe rear** 

atock inJSahara, ^*om whence they ing of bees for honey and wax. 

aoiigrate to the ji4aln« ol:' Morocco^ The Sbelkihs iuhabit the Atlaa 

lybenever the {Jagae, famine, of onoantaint^ aad their Fariona 

any other calamity, depopulates tha bnaiches soath of Morocco ^ (bef^ 

country, so as to adeiit of< a ne««f live generally in tovfuis, aivl'are^ 

eolojjy, without injuring the terri-* for the most part, occapi^ia fau»^ 

lory of the farmer inbabitantst bandry Uke the Berebbers, tboagk 

Xhese Arabs Iwe in tenta) and dUfering frott^ them in tbeir iaa** 

apeal^ the language of tiie Koran> giiage^ dress, and nianuers^ <hef 

aoanewbat corrupted. They are a live : almost entirely on* {Aatona^ 

restless and turbuleiii people, con<* barley-meal, made ixito grueU and 

4iuuaUy at war with each other 7 barley roasted or, gnuMtlated, wliidi 

inone|frovincearebellio«sfcabyle, they> mix with cold water, ^e^ 

«r clan, will fight against a neigh- travelling : this is called 2imeta« 

boiiring loyal one, and will thus They occasionally indulge in ens** 

plun<ier hikI destroy one. anotlier, casoe, a nutritive farinaceous food^ 

till, fatigiied by the toils of war, made ofgranulated flour, and after<» 

they mutually cease, when, the wards boiled by steam, aud-miKadf 

next year pei*haps,^the rebeltious with batter, mutton, fowls, an«^ 

clan will be fogod fighting for tbe itegctables. Many fhmiliest among* 

JE^m|)eror against the fprmer loyal tfaeee people are reported 4o be de« 

oqe, iU)w become rebellious. Tbit acended from tbe Portuguese^ who 

jplan of setting one tribe against formerly possessed all tbe pofta oh 

another is an act of policy of tbe the coast ; but who, after the dis* 

Emperor, liecaujae if be did D0t„ eoveryof America, gradually witb« 

in this manner, i)uell the broils drew thither, 

contimialiy breaking out amongst Tbe Moofislt dtvss resevblea 

theiu, lie would he compelled, in t^t of the ancient Patriarchy, a a 

^rder to preserve tran<fuillity in his represented in paintings; that oi 

dominions, to employ his own the men consists of a red cap and 

ai'Diy for that purpose, which' is torban, a (Kumja) shirt, which* 

generally dccupiedr in mor^ impor- hangs outsifle of the drawers, and 

tant businesa. comes dovv<ii below the knee, » 

The Berebbers inhabit the moun- (Caftan) coat, which buttons 0I06& 

thins of Atlas, north of the city of liefore and down to thb bottom, 

Morocco, living generally In tents > with large open sleeves j over' 

they are a robust, nervous people, which, when they go out of doors, 

kavirig a language peculiar to' they thi*ow caitelessly, and tome^ 

tliemselves,; which ..diiiers more timea elegantly, a hayk, or gar« 

from the Arabic, or general Ian- isentof white cotton, silk, or wool,^ 

^lage of Africa, than any two fiveor slit yards long* and fir^ ^c 

languages of Europe differ from wide. The Arabs often dispense 
<»cl^ other > it if probably a dia^*' wkli^ tha. aaftauy and e^n witW? 

* ' * tha. 



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Ibe shirty wearing noifamg but the 

Tbe people of this Eofipire bet- 
ing borD subject* of an arbitrary 
desp<it» they may be sai<i to bava 
Ba established laws | they know no 
other than the will of the Prince* 
and if this should ' deviate, as it 
•emetinies doe*,, from the moral 
fKinclpies laid down in the Koran, 
kfloast be obeyed- Where the Em- 
peror resides, be administers jus- 
tice, in person, generally twice^ 
and sonxetimea four times a week, 
iu the (M'shoire) place of au« 
diience,whitb^ all complaints are 
carried* Here access is easy ; he 
listens to every one, foreigner* or 
•t^ijects, men or women, rich or 
poorf there is no distinction, 
every one has » right to appear 
bdibre him, and boldly to explain 
the natitre of his case ^ aod al- 
thouK^ ^^ person is considered a» 
•acred, and e8tat>lished custom 
obl^es the subject to prostrate 
lumself, and to p«iy bim rather 
ailoration than respect, yet every 
complainant may tell bis story 
without the least hesitation or ti- 
midity; indeed, if any one i» 
abashed^ or appeal's diffident, hi» 
cause is weakened in proportion.* 
Judgment is always i^ompt, deci- 
sive, plausible^ and generally cor- 
lecf. 

When a Mooselmin is inclined 
to marry^ be mukes inqniry of some 
coniiilential servant respecting the 
l^rson of ber mistress ; and if be 
j^eives a satisfactory description 
of the lady, and opportunity is 
somatimes procured to see ber at a.- 
window^ or other place, this inter-- 
view geneially determines whether 
the parties are to continue their 
regai*d$ ^ if the suitor be satisfied 
with the lady, be seeks an occa- 
sion of communicating bis passion • 
tp the i^ber^: and pro^mesi to- 



marryhis da«|{bfear^ Thefathef% 
conseat being obtained, be sends 
presenta to the lady, accordiag to 
kia eircimistances, which being ac* 
cepted, the parties are supposed to 
be betrothed, and marriage follows* 
It ia not expected that the wo« 
man should iuive a fortune, or a 
settlement; but if the father be 
rich, he generally gives a dowry 
to his daughter, and a quantity of 
peai'ls, rubies, diaraonds,'i|^c. The 
dowry remains the property^f the 
female, and in case of a separa- 
tion, by consent of the husband, 
is returned to her. These separa-> 
tions proceed from various causes, 
as barrenness, the disappointment 
of expeetation, or incompatibility 
of disposition. Separation, bow^ 
ever, not originating in the above 
causes, is reprobated as immoral 
and disreputable. 



THE KITE ANI> THE WEASEL. 

S John Bunford, jun. £sq. of 
Stoneball, county Westmeatb, 
was one day in the latter part of 
last month, overseeing his men, 
bis attention was directed towards 
an adjoining 6eld By the squeaking 
of a rabbit, which was trying to 
extricate itself from the venomous 
bold of a weasel. — While looking 
at the scuffle, and desirous to see 
how it would terminate, a kite 
made a descent as a claimant for 
some of the booty, which the wea- 
sel attacked with fury. The new* 
contest lasted fur a tew minutes^ 
when the kite sought refuge by 
flight, ascending almost perpendi- 
cularly frpm the spot ; but the wea-, 
sel, attaching itself to the neck oi 
the bird, came oii^* victor, and suc^a. 
ceeded by bringing it down from an 
iinmense height to the grounJ. 



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DRAM-DRIWKING VINDI- 
^ '- GATED, 



MR. EDITOR^ 

T^HE number oF vulgar errors 
eommon iu the would^ is inor« 
tnah man is able to point out 
There bath t)een,'l believe, a vo- 
lume collected aqd published, for 
the good of the public 5 yet the 
public seems to haVe l)enefited but 
little from it, as there are, to this 
day, a long list of vulgar errors, 
false notions, misconceptions, &c. 
"very prevalent among men. In 
this last we find dram -drinking il- 
lustrated arid highly decried, as Q, 
most , pernicious, baneful, life-sap- 
ing habit, which I shall endeavour 
to shew is a vulgar error, and will 
maintain it to be not only perfect- 
ly innocent in its effects, but that 
it is very salutary, nay, in many 
cases, absolutely necessary tp the 
(>ealtb and comfort of many, both 
males and females. 

You will, probably, Mr. Editor, 
think me to be on the sophistical 
iand rhapsodical strain, whilst some 
others, who are blest with Mrs. 
Slipslop*s second-hand knowledge 
and comprehension of words and 
rhetoric, will say, that I am iron^ 
in^, but I do assure you and them, 
that I Was nevermore serious in 
my life, and trust I shall convince 
ihe woiid, in the clc*drest and most 
sieritifical manner, that dram-drink- 
ing is very salui)rious and neces- 
sary to the comfortable feelings, 
health, &c. of mankind ; and that 
the learned and ignorant have been 
in a vulgar error in supposing th6 
tontrary. 

• Three or four centuries ago, 
brandy was confined to the apotbe- 
taties*^ shops, and by them vende"! as 
>i medicament. When a doctor oi* 
apothecary was called in oa a me« 



jical account, to a poor manji 
borne down with various cares; 
hard laboui:, low vegetable diet, ^ 
scolding, bad managing, gossip-^ 
^ng wife, numerous children, &c.; 
or to a poor woman harrased near- 
ly out of life, as well as health and 
spirits, with a sottish, brutish^ 
drunken, savage husband, the doc« 
tor or apothecary, if they possessed 
a grain of common sense, did not 
take from such poor isuflerers six^ 
teen or twenty ounces of bl6o(^ 
nor give them either emetic oi^ 
cathartic; nor did they tell lihfe 
vapoured, hysterical, fidgetty w6i 
man, as the once popular Dr. Rad« 
diffe did a lady, '' your must wip6 
your a — e with a ballad." No, ha> 
they gave such sufferers a phial of 
two or three ounces of genuine 
brandy, with directions to take tw6 
drams of it twice or- thrice in a 
day, either on a lump of' sugar or 
-in a glass of rue, or somie other tea, 
that was thought to be proper t6 
ibe case. This mode of treatment 
gave the patients great relief and 
comfort, and they recovered their 
health and spirits- in a little time. 
In this manner the virtues of brandy 
or dram-drinking became public '5 
if a woman had the- vapours, was 
hysterical or ©laggotty, or a man 
had a relaxed foulstomach,'wind> 
cholic, &c. brandy was the sure 
t'ure ; the remedy was loved; every 
one recommended it • aiitl brandy 
became a general medicament. 

People, in their conjectural in- 
ferences, are apt to fall into erro** 
neou's, false notions of things and 
consequence^, and argue a matter, 
not according to the dictates Of rea^ 
son, but according to their passions, 
^ propensities, appetites, &c. as no 
dottbt they did with respect to dram- 
drinking, reasoning and debating 
the case, according to the goldea 
rule of Ihree, if <>negiveiQeso much, 

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wbat will thr^e give me^ and as I thx 

Lave received sucli relief and com^ PEDIGREE and PEBFORMAKCfift 

jport from two drams twice or thrice or 

in a day,, what relief and comfort That •nee celebrated lUuer, 

ihaii I experience from two ounces ^tJT?xr TXTi^xirt?n 

five or six times in a day? GREY DIG MED. 

By this, Mr. Editor, I trust you ^_-, , 77""*,. m rt -o 

are convinced that dram-drinking H . ^^* ^^^ ^"^ .^'r \ t"?* 

is perfectly harmless, and that at ^^^'T' ^^»'t- ^"^ ^^«^«^ ^ 

particular seasons and cases, it is ' ^' »%. . t t^- 

highly salutary and necessary to GreyDiomed, was got by Dio- 

jthehealth and comfortable feelings J"^l> ^^ ^*"> ^'[^ D^rmmi, 

of most individuals; but habitual i>y I><>"niant ; grandam, i)iz2y, by 

ounce-diinking of ardent spirits, 5.'^"^^ great grandam, also called 

Wf all are certain is pernicious in ^^f ^^ , ^^ !jl*^ ^"'^^'it'' ^T'' 
its effects, and fatal in its conse- Ga lant s bmiling Tom Oysterfoot, ' 

quences if pei-sisted in. An occa- ^^^ ^^«^^*°' ^I: p°^« Common- 
sional ounce, however, does no ?J-, out of the Duke of Somerset a 
barm, or if it do a small injury, ^"^VV^ Mare. ^, . , 
iiature recpvers again 3 the tlcuU ^^^]omed was got by Flonzel| 
ties, functions, and springs of \^^ '^'^^> (''^'' ^'l^' .1^ /tt«o) by 
existence, are not materially hurt ^1^5^^?,^ '^''' Blank, Chddei-s, ouc of 
by a glass of ardent spirits, once in ^^!? ^.*^*^^'''' ^y ^''7 Grantham, 
a month, or something oftener. , Dorimant was got by Otho ; hw 
There is another vulgar error, *^am by Babram j grandam, CAid- 
whicb springs fmm the former— ^^^ ^Y ^^l Haropton-Court Chi -. 
one habitual dram, or rather ounce- ^^> «"' ^f ^^<^ Duke of Somerset s 
drinker, out of several hundred, Bald Charlotte, by Old Royal, 
may^y great chance, die at the ^f^^we^, Dorimant, Florizel, 
age of sixty.five or seventy, which ^^?^' *"^ ™^«,' *^^ ^he other horses 
is the common age of men. At *"^ nwres m the above Pedigrees, 
3uch a rare and singular event, were the first racers of their time^ 
men cry out, dram-drinking did I'^^Jf^'^y Dwmed was the first of 
»ot shorten his life, he lived and '^^^ ^^^^'^ S^^ that star ted, 
enjoyed himself to age of man; '' 
thien they secretly comfort them- GREY DIOMED'S PERFORM- 
selves, that a similar course of liv- ANCES. 
ing will not shorten their days. At Newmarket First October 
when the dram or ounce-drinker. Meeting, 17^7, Grey Diamed, 
yvho died at sixty-five or seventy, (then two years old) Sst. 7^h, beat 
Jiad he been properly temperate, the Duke of Bedford's grey filly, 
might have arrived at ninety or by Mambrino, 8st. 3lb. the first 
more; and likevinis<i, that two ounces half of R. M. 200gs. — Seven to 4 
of ardent spirits had no more effect on Grey Dtomed. On Monday, 
on his cxtl*aordinariiy strong con- in the Houghton Meeting, be won 
stitution, than half an ounce has. a Sweepstakes of lOOgs. each, (six 
on the generality of weak and frail Subscribers) T. Y. C. beating Go- 
mortal men. liah and Ponto, 8st. each.— Even 
^ Friend to Dram, and an Enemy betting on Ponto, and 7 to 4 
4» Ounce, Drinking, against Grey Diom«d. On Friday^ 



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lie beat Miss Tomhoy^ 8st. eacb^ med was then sold, with bis en- 
the first half of R. M. 200gs. — gagements, to the Duke of Bed- 
Six to 4 on Miss Tomboy. He ford 3 and in the same Meetings 
was then sold to the' Honourable be won the Claret Stakes of 200gs. 
Mr. Fox. each, b. ft. (ten SubscribersX 8st. 

Newmarket First Spring Meet- 7'b. eaeb, B. C. beating Sir Tho-' 
ing, 17BS, Grey Dimmed, 8st. 5lb. mas, (who received back bis Stake) > 
beat Clown, Sst. lib. Ab. M. Countryman, Feenow, and Aure- 
SOOgs. — Six to 5 on Grey Dlomed. lius : — Pwo to 1 on Grey Diomed. 
In the July Meeting, he won the In the Second Spring Meeting, h» 
Town Plate of 501. the last mile beat Harpator, 5 yrs old, Sst. each, 
and a distance of B. C. beating R. M. 500gs. — Six to 4 on Giey 
Minos, Star, Amadis, Busy, &c. — Diomed. — And. at Sst. he received 
Six to 4 on Amadis, and 7 to 2' 80gs. compromise from Alexander^ 
against Grey Diomed. And re- aged, Sst. 13lb, T. Y. C. 200gs, 
eeived ]50gs. from Alarm, to whom b. ft. In the Jnly Meeting, at Sst. 
he was to have allowed 1 dlb. Ab. he won 60gs. Dltcb-in, beating 
M. — He also, at Sst. received 40gs. Gunpowder, 5 yrs old, Sst. Sib. 
tacb from Nutmeg, 6st. 13lb. and I^inos, 4 yrs old; Sst. and Alexan^ 
Goliab,7st. lOlb. Ditch Mile. In der, aged, pst. — Six to 4 against 
the First October Meeting, be won Grey Diomed. On Monday, in 
the I4(X)gs. Sst. 3lb. Ditcb-in, the Second October Meeting, at 
beating Aurelius. — Six to 4 on Sst. 5lb. be received ISOgs. from 
Aurelius. — ^And received lOOgs. Nimble, Sst. Across the Flat.— - 
each from Cardock and Turnip 5 And on Thursday, at Sst. be won 
also SOgs. compromise from Car- a Sweepstakes of 2€>0g$. each, fa. 
dock : — In the same Meeting, at ft. B. C. beating Poker, 5 yrs old, 
S8t.2lb. be won a Handicap Stakes 7^^* ^^b- — Harpator, 5 yrs old, Sst. 
of 50g8. each, 20gs. ft. Ditcb-in, 2lb. paid forfeit. — Seven to 2 on 
beating Poker, 4 yrs old, Sst. Sib. Grey Diomed. In the Hoogbton 
Hawthorn, 3 yrs old, 6st. ]2lb. Meeting, he was beat by the 
Sunflower, 4 yrs old, Sst. 41b. and Prince's Traveller, Sst. each, B. C. 
Turnip, 3 yrs old, 7st. 4lb. — Di- 500gs. 

rector and Busy, both tbree-year- On Monday, in the Newmarket 
olds, 7st. 2lb. each, paid forfeit :— Second Spring Meeting, 1790, 
Six to 4 on Grey Diomed. — He Grey Diomecf, Sst. 7^h, beat tbe 
received lOOgs. from Altamont, Prince's Bubble, 6 yrs old, 7st. two 
and 85g8. each from Amadis and middle miles of B. C, 300gs. : — 
Aurelius, in a Stakes of 200gs. Six to 5 on Grey Diomed. And 
each. Across the Flat. In the on Saturday, at 7^t, 12lb. be beat 
Houghton Meeting, he received the Prince's Traveller, Sst. 7^b. 
|20gs. from Jubilator. B. C. 500gs. : — Four to 1. on Tra- 

in tbe Craven Meeting, 1789, veller. And in the Fii-st October 
Grey Diomed received 200gs. from Meeting, at Sst. be won 501. R. C. 
Feenow ; and at 8st. 7ib. he beat beating Poker, 6 yrs old, Sst. 5lb. 
Alarm, 6st. 11 lb. Across tbe Flat, Bashful, 4 yrs old, Jst 5lb. Mag- 
JOOgs.— -Four to 1 on Grey Dio- pie, 4 yrs old, 78t. 5lb. Omen, aged, 
Biecl.-«And in the First Spring Sst. 7^*^- ^nd Schoolboy, aged, 8st, 
Meeting, be received 40gs. com- 7'^- — Seven to 4 on Grey Dio- 
f rpoiite froD» CIqwo. Greif Dio- med. 
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. At Kewniarket First , Spring 
Meeting, 1791 > Grey JDiomed, g&U 
5\h. won a Handicap Purse of 
50g&. Ditcb-in, beating Gunpow- 
cier, d yrs old, Sst. i:ilb. Harpator, 
6 yr8 old, 9st. 2lb. Burgundy, 3 
yrs old, 6st. lib. Trial, 3 yrs old, 
Qst. 8lb. and Pelican, 3 yrs old, 
fist. 9lb. — Three to \ against Grey 
PioBied, and 3 to 1 against Peli- 
can. . In tbe Second Spring Meet- 
ing, be won the Jockey-Club 
yiate, 8st.7lb, each, B. C. beating 
Bustler and Traveller. — Five to 2 
on Traveller. 

At Newmarket Second Spring 
JVieeiing, 1792, Grey Diomed, pst. 
4ib. won the l40gs. B. C. beating 
^acus, 5 yrs old, Sst. 4lb. — Five 
to 4 on Grey Dioraed. — And on 
tbe same day, he won the Jockey- 
Club Plate^ Sst. 7lb. each, B. C. 
beating Pipator, Toby, Skylark, 
and Bustler: — Two tu I against 
J^ipij^tor, 5 to 2 against Grey Bio- 
in^d, 3 to 1 against Toby, and 7 
to 1 against Skylark. And at 
tV inches ter, at gst. 6lb. he won 
50l. beating at two four -mile heats. 
Lord Belfast's Wonder, 6 yrs old, 
9st. After being beat by Men- 
doza in the Newmarket Second 
October Meeting, he was sold for 
500gs. to Mr. John Smith, of 
Market- Weigh ton, Yorkshire, who 
took him into Russia : and on tbe 
28th of June, 1793, he won the 
Cup at Moscow, beating Count 
Orloff"'s Taudem and Mr. Round- 
ing*s Honest Sadler. — He also won 
several other valua1)le Prizes, and 
>»'as the best racer, during the time 
of his rnnniog, that appeared iu 
that country. — Mr. Smith then 
ipade him a public Stallion for 
three seasons; after which, lie 
sold him to Mr. Massaloif for 
UQOO lublcsj 6t that time^ equal 



to. lOpO pounds or guineas ^p§i 
lish money.— He remained in Mr< 
Massalotii's Stud nntil the time ai 
bis death, which happened in th^ 
year 1801. — He was allowc<l to b^ 
one of the most valuable Stalliont 
ever exported into that country. 

*^* Thomas Gilbank, (at \U% 
time a boy) who wa^ engaged by 
Mr. Smith to take care of Graf 
Diomedj on his passage, and dur-* 
ing the time that he remained ii^ 
bis possession, was engaged to Mr. 
Massaloff when be purchased Grey 
Diomed, and was in that Gentle? 
man's service in December last^ 
when tbe writer hereof bad the 
pleasuie of bearing from him. — T, 
Gilbank, has been several tiine% 
since in England, and had tbe cara 
of Lord Darlington's Dancasters^ 
by Sir Peter Teazle, and othersj^ 
who were expoited into Russia^ 
tbe latter end of tbe year 1804. 

W.P^ 
Y^rk.Feh. 1813. 



CURE OF HYDROPHOBIA. 



TPHE following, case which oc- 
curred at Atcbam, near Sbrewsr 
bury, will be found interesting, as 
it fully corroborates the successful 
modeof treatmcut, whicb Lad been 
practised by Mr. Tyroon, of the 
2 2d Dragoons, at Arcott, and Dr. 
Schoolbrcd, at Calcutta ; both oi 
whicb instances were certified io 
the Bombay Government, and pub* 
lisbed by order of the Governer iu 
Council.* The present c«ise i« 
thus detai^d by Mr. Wyuoey p| 
Slbrewsbury ; 

'.' Abrabam Cooke, who reside! 
at Atcbam, four mile^ distant ixqufk 
Shrewsbury, was, upon ib^ ODA 9I 



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January 



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JanuavjlaM^i bitten in. the hand by were ctistorted, and iiullcated the 
li' poiotei* hitch, bearing- evident greatest dread and anxiety. With 
^igns of being ma^l. He almost difficulty he was detained in his 
immediately walked to Shrewsbury, bed, and he appeared to be watch- 
Om his arrival, the bitten part wa& ing, and anxious to escape some 
^xcis^d by Mr, Thomas Sutton, object which occasioned his dis- 
surgeon. The wound soon healed, tress. At this time (about oq^ 
and he continued in good health o*clock p.m.).! was passing througii 
and spirits, always nmking light the village, and was desired to visit 
9f the accident, until the 5th of him: I found him in the situatioji 
February, when he began to com- related. In a very short Jtirne af-» 
plain of an uneasiness and soreness terwaids bis bead, and also \\,h left 
in that part, of his hand where he band and arm, appeared convulsed^ 
bad received the injury. On the X waitecl to hear the histoiy of thu 
^th and 7th« it became gradually accident from his wife, and then 
worse; and on the dth, in the pressed him to drink some watery 
morning, after a restless night, he ][ could not prevail; and although 
arose with increased pain and sore* I did not observe any additional 
|^es$ in his hand, attended with .horror at the moment, stiU it .waf 
bead-ache, sickness/ and oppres- evident he was too much agit^tet} 
sion at the pit of his stomach : his to be able to drink. 1 was trulj 
breathing was diific nit. Natwith« anxious for the advjce and assists 
standing these symptoms he went ance of my much-esteemed friend 
to his work, but very soon' became Mr. Thomas Sutton 3 at the samf 
much worse. He wasr prevailed time I was aware that the delay of 
upon to drink some warmed bepr, an hour might hazard the life of 
'and was immediately seized with our patient. I therefore had re^ 
violent vomitings, ile \iUh diffi- course to the abstraction of a larg^ 
(;ulty reached bis l^ame, and on his quantity of blood, and allowed it 
>vay was much distressed, as he to flow until he fainted. He re- 
apprehended that the people then mained for near an hour with 
passing were determmed to ride scarcely a pei'ceptihle pulse; and 
over him. His wife pressed him it was evident, during the whole 
^o take some water ; he shewed time, that his disease was abating, 
great dread of it, and could not be His countenance became conir 
prevailed upon to drink any, as- posed, and much paler ; his eyes 
signing, as the reason of his objec-. were less inflamed, the convulsions 
tion, the pain and vomiting occa* ceased, and to my complete satis- 
$ioaed by swallowing the beer, faction, he enquired if he might 
She then procured some surfeit- drink some water; which, when 
water, to which he made, the same it was brought to htm, he scemer^ 
objection; she put it to his mouth, to enjoy. I now left him, desiring 
but -could not say whether any was that, if any return of his disease 
swallowed ; if any, it must have took place, I might be immediate- 
been a very small quantity. All ly acquainted. I sent him larga 
the symptoms rapidly increased : doses of Opium, with Calomel, and 
^is looks were frightful ; his eyes James's Powder, adhering, asclose-« 
ataring and inflamed; his face like- ly as possiblie, to the successful 
wise was ia4amed> and his features plan adopted by Dr. Schoolbred, 

s^n4 



90S THS SKIRTING MAGAZINE. 

nn^ communicated in the Medical sealer came.*' I was satfsfie^, 

•Dd Physical Journal for January, from appearances^ she was right ; 

1813. and T left him without any appre« 

" On the 9thy at seven o'clock hension.— -Since that time 1 have 

In the morning, 1 again visited regularly visited him, and there 

bim. He bad slept the early part has not been one untoward synip- 

•f the night, but had been dis- torn. He ts now ffp))arentfy well, 

turbed with horrtd dreams ; at the excepting that hrs mootb is sore 

aame time be told me, ^ he had not from the effect of the mercury. 

1>een half so much alarmed by his '' Immediately on my return 

dreams, as be was with the appear- from Atcham ou the ^tb, I called 

ance of the dog in his room, the upon Mr. Thomas Sutton, and re* 

day before, and which did not leave quested bim to take the earliest 

the room unHl be fainted from the opportunity of observing the case, 

bleeding/ — He seemed agitated, and F)egged that be would have tbtf 

said be was dreadfnlly ill, and kindness to suggest any thing that 

should never sleep again. There be thought likely to be of service, 

were convulsive startings in his He and Mr. Sutton, as well as 

band, wrist, and shoulders. He others of the profession, have beea 

told me be thought there was present.*' 

something alrvc in hts wrist — he 

refused la take either coffee or ■■■■™"'*^*^ • ^ ' ' ' " '" 

water. His countenance was com* #^xt mo • ixTTVTr^ 

posed and thoughtful ; he started ^^ TRAINING. 

lit the si iehteftt sound or motion; ^ "t ." 

»nd said every kind of noise dts- OnUtnu^Jhm page ax> 

tracted bis brain, and that bis — — ^ 

neighbours had been, making a fpROMthe preceding MK»)unt of 

nrnse on purpose all night. Ire- Capt. Barclay's method of tratii« 

peated the bleeding, and the result ing, it will be seen, that be coni- 

was exactly the same as before roences with the evacuating pro- 

descpilied-r-be fainted: and from cess, and that three purgative doses 

that time was perfectly composed, are deemed sufficient to clear any 

nntil about three o'clock p, m. man from the impurities which it 

when his wife thought for a mo- is requisite to throw off, prepara* 

inent she observed a twitching in tory to enteriug on the course of 

bis shoulder. regimen and exercise. And in 

** Ou the 10th, 1 saw bim com- this stage of the business, the ob- 

foKtable. — On the 1 Itb, afrter sit- jects to be attained, are the purifi- 

tini^ up for some time, he was much cation of the animal system, and 

f-ritigued and fainted. — I was sent the promotion of the digestive 

for, and upon my arrival, his wife powers. 

said, she ** was sorry I had lieen The diet or regimen is the next 

troubled to come, as the (it was point of consideration, and it it 
nothing like what I bad seen be- , very simple. As the tntentioD of 

fore, and was not more than such the trainer is to preserve the 

as he had been accustomed to, strength of the pedestrian, he mwst 

when be had beeu drinking hard, take care to keep bim in good cen- 

or was much tired, ami that it was dition by nourishing food. Ani- 

^j>ainst her consent that the mes- xnal diet is alone prescribed, and 

htaf 



THB 6P0imNa MAGAZINS. SBf 

Hettf «d4 nufton are preferretL be remarked » that salt, spiceriet. 

The lean of fat beef cooked in and all kinds of seasonings^ witb 

•teaks^ with very Kttie salt, is the the exception of vinegar^ are pro-> 

best, anditshotUd lie rather under* hibited. 

done than otherwise. Mutton be* With respect to liquors* they 

ing reckoned easy of digestion* must be always taken cold j and 

|nay be occasionally given, to vary home-brewed beer, old, but not 

the diet, and gratify the taste, bottled, is the best. A little red 

The legs of fowls are highly es- wine, however, may be given to 

leemed. It is prefei*a)>le to have those who are not fond of malt 

the meat bhqilbd, as much of its liquor ; but never more than half 

nutritive qualities is lost by roasting a pine after dinner. Too much 

<tf boiling.* Biscuit and stale liquor swells the abdomen, and of 

bread are the only preparations of course injures the breath. The 

vegetable matter which are per- quantity of beer, therefore, should 

mitted to be given ; and every not exceed three pints during th« 

thing inducing flatulency must be whole day, and it must be taken 

earefuUy avoided. Veal and Iamb with breakfast and dinner, no sup* 

•re never alloweil, nor pork, which per being allowed. Water is never 

•perates as a laxative on some given alone, and ardent spirits ar# 

people; and all fat or greasy sub* strictly prohibited, however dikiUd. 

atances are pf'ohibited, as they in- It is an established rule to av<»d 

dace bile, and consequently injure liquids as much as possible, and no 

the Moniaeh. But it has been more liquor of any kind is allowed 

proved by experience, that the lean to be taken than what is merel]f 

of meat contains more nourishment requisite to quench the thirsts 

than the fat, and in every case, the Milk is never allowed* as it cuiw 

most substantial food is preferable diet on the stomach. Soups are 

to any other kind. not used jf nor is any thing liquid 

Vegetables, such as turnips* car^ taken warm, but grudL or broth, to 

rots, or potatoes, are never given, promote the operation of the phy^ 

as they are watery, and of difficult sic ; and the sweating liquor men* 

digestion. On the same principle, tioned before. The broth must 

fish must be avoided, and besides* be cooled in order to take off tbo 

they are not sufficiently nutritious, fat, when it may be again warmed $ 

.^either butter nor cheese is allow- or beef tea may be used in tho 

^ ; the one being very indigesti- same manner, with little or no salt* 

ble, and the other apt to turn rancid In the days between the purges^ 

on the stomach, ^gs are also the pedestrian must be fied as usual, 

forbidden, excepting the yolk taken strictly adhering to the nourishing 

raw in the morning. And it must diet by which he is invigorated. 

* *' It may sei*ve as a preliminary rule, that/resA metU is the most 
yrholesome and nourishing. ^ To preserve these qualities* however, it 
ought to be drested so as to remain tender and juicy $ for it is by this 
means, it will be easily digested, and afford most nourishment/'— ^i^* 
lich on Diet and Regimen, p. 3 13. 

f " Broths and soups require little digestion ; weaken the stomach, 
and are attended by all the pernicious effects of other warm aqd relaxing 
ixink.**— m//icA on Diet, *c. ji. 304. 

«» Frofusa 



« Frohat Seating is resorted to known rqles Hre ade^atb io ^ 

SB Ml expedient for removing the purpose^ if the pedestrian strictly 

foperfluities of fiesh auii fat.—- adheres to theni> and the trainer 

Three or four sweats are generally bestows a moderate degree of at^ 

jeffuisite, and they may be con- tent ion to his ^tate* and conditioil 

iidered the severest part of the pro* during the progrtfs^sof the trainibgi 
0tS9, It is farther necessary to remark) 

Emetics are only prescribed if that the trainer, before he* proteiedl 

the stomach be disordered, which to apply his theory, should roak^ 

nay sometimes happen, when due himself acquainted with the' con^ 

«are is not taken to proportion the stitution and habits of bis patiettt; 

i|uantity of food to the digestive that he may be able to judge hbif 

powers. But in general, the quan^ far he can, with safety, carry tfed 

tity of aliment i% not limited by different parts of the process'. The 

llhetraiuery bat left entirely to the nature of hi^ disposition -shouM 

iKsci'etion of the pedestrian, whose also be known, that feVerytatise of 

appetite sliould regulate- him in hritati^n may be avoided 5 for, as 

this respectw ' it requires great patience iind per** 

" iVlthoitgh the chief parts of the severance to undergo training; 

Iraiuing system • depend upon every ekj^dient to soothe and 

SwK'ATiVG, £x&KOi8E, and Febd- encourage the mind should be 

1NG> yet? the 'object to be obtained adopted. 

Vy thepedestrian would be defeat- * It is impossible to ii5c -A prScis^ 
td, if the^e^ere not adjusted, each period for the CbmplMion of \M 
to the other, and- to his constitu- training process, as it depends tipoh 
tion. Th* skiiful trainer will; the condition of tbe pcdestVihn j 
tberefore, con^aiftly «t«idy the but from two to three months^ in 
progresB of liis art, by observing tnost cases;- Will be sufficient; es-s- 
the effect of the processed separate-^ pecially if he be-in tolerarblt (ion^ 
ly, and in combination* dition at the tommencement, and 
- If a man retains iiis health and possessed of sufficient perseverance 
•j»riis<l«fting the process, improves and courage to submit cheerfully 
fii wind, and increases in strength, to the privations and tiardship^ to 
it is certain thac the object in- which he must unavoidably be sub- 
tended will be obtained. But if jected. 

otilerwisev it is to be apprehended * Training is indispensably neces*' 

that some defect exists, through sary to those who 'are to engage id 

the uQskilfulnessf or mismanage-k torporal exertions beyond their 

mefit of the trainer, which ought ordiufery ' powers. Pedestrians, 

Ipstantly to be* remedied by such therefore, who are thatched either 

alterations as the circumst-aqces of against otliers or- against timej 

the case may demand. It is evi- and pugilists, who engage to fight j 

fient> therefo^te, that, in' many in- must -undergo the training process 
•tances, the trainer tttuSt be guided • before they contend, *as the issue 

by fais judgment, and that no fixed of the contest, if their powers b^ 

rules t3t management can, witii ab- nearly equal, will, in a great mea- 

solute certainty, be depended upon, sure^ depend upon their relative 

for producing an invariably an'd condition. But the advantages of 

jietermitiate reMilt. But,* in gene- the training system are not confined 

ral, it may be calculated, that the • to pedestrians and pugilist* alonH 
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26gi 



They extend to every man) and 
were training generally introduced, 
instead of medicines, as an expe- 
dient for the prevention and cure 
of diseases, its beneficial conse- 
quences would promote his happi- 
ness, and prolong his life. 

It is well known to physiolo- 
gists, that both the solids and fluids 
which compose the human frame 
are euccessively absorbed and de- 
posited. Hence a perpetual reno- 
vation of the parts ensues, regu- 
lated, as they are, by the nature of 
our food and general habits. — 
fPelV 8 Anatomy, vol. L p. 12J, — 
it, therefore, follows, that our 
health, vigour, and activity, must 
depend upon regimen a;id exercise, 
or, in other words, upon the ob- 
servance of those rules which con- 
stitute the theory of the training 
process. The e&ect has accord- 
ingly corresponded with the cause 
in all instances where training has 
heen adopted ; and, although not 
commonly resorte<l to as the means 
of restoring invalids to health, yet 
there is every reason to believe, 
that it would prove effectual in 
curing many obstinate diseases, 
such as the gout, rheumatism, bili- 
ous complaints. Sec. &g. 

" Training) (says Mr. Jackson), 
always appears to improve the 
state of the lung^ One of the 
most striking effects is to improve 
the wind ^ that is, it enables a man 
to draw a larger inspiration, and 
to hold his breath longer." He 
farther observes, — '^ By training, 
the mental faculties are also im- 
proved. The attention is more 
ready, and the perception more 
acute, probably owing to the clear- 
ness of the stomach, and better di- 
gestion."-— (^Code (^Health, vol, u, ' 
p. 103 J 

It has been made a question whe- 
ther training produces a kuiing, 

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or only a ten^porary effect on the 
constitution* It is undeniable, 
that if a man be brought to a bet- 
ter condition ; if corpulency, and 
the impurities of his body, disap- 
pear; and if his wind and strength 
be improved by any process what- 
ever, his good state of health will 
continue, until some derangement 
of his frame shall take place from 
accidental or natural causes. If 
he shall relapse into intemperance, 
or neglect the means of preserving 
bis health, either by omitting to 
take the necessary exercise, or by 
indulging iu debilitiiting propen<* 
sities, he must expect such en- 
croachments to be made on bis 
constitution, as must soon unhinge 
bis system. But if he shall ob- 
serve a different plan, the benefi- 
cial effects of the training process 
will remain until the gradual decay 
of his natural functions shall, in 
mature old age, intin^ate the ap- 
proach of his dissolution. 

The ancients entertained this 
opinion. — " They were," says Dr. 
Buchan, " by no means nnac- 
C|uaiuted with, or inattentive to, 
these instruments of medicine, al- 
though modern practitioners ap- 
pear to have no idea of removing 
disease, or restoring health, but by 
pouring drugs into the stomach. 
Herod icus is said to have been the 
first who applied the exercises and 
regimen of the gymnasium to the 
removal of disease, or the main- 
tenance of health. Among the 
Romans, Asclepiades carried this 
so far, that he is said by Celsus 
almost to have banished the use of 
internal remedies from his practice. 
He was the inventor of pensile 
beds, which were used to induce 
sleep, and of various other modes of 
exercise and gestation, and rose to 
great eminence as a physician in 
Home. In his own person he af« 

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forded an excellent example of the 
Trisdom of hia rules, aod the pro^ 
priety oi bis rej^imeD. Pliny tells 
us tbaty in early life, he made a 
public profession that be would 
agree to forfeit all pretensions to 
the name of a physician, should he 
ever suffer from sickness, or die but 
of old age; and, wbat is more ex- 
traordinary, he fulfilled bis pro-- 
nise, for be lived upwards of a 
century, and at last was killed by a 
fall down stairs. — (Code of Health, 
vol u.p, 123). 

It may tberefore be admitted, 
that the beneficial consequences, 
both to the body and the mind, 
arising from training, are not 
me^ly temporr.ry, but may be 
made permaaeat by proper care 
and attention. / The simplicity of 
tbe rules is a great recommenda- 
tion to those who may he desirous 
of tryiug the experiment, and tbe 
\irhole process may be resolved into 
the foilmviog principles : — 1st, 
The evacuaimg, which cleanses the 
stomach and intestines. — 2d, The 
sweating, which takes offthe super* 
iAuities of flesh ,and fat — 8d,.The 
daily course ofexerdse, which im- 
proves tbe wind, and strengthens 
the musclea; — and, lastly, Tbe 
regimen, which nourishes and invi- 
gorates tbe body. 

The criterion by which it may 
ht known whether a man be in 
^ood condition, or, what is tbe 
^ame thing, has been ])roperly 
trained, is tbe state of tbe skin, 
which becomes iv^ooth, elastic, and 
ioell^co loured, or iranspaxent.-^ 
The flesh is also^rm, and the per- 
son trained, feels himself light, and 
full of spirits. But ia the pro- 
gress of the training, his condition 
qmay beascertaiiM^d by the effect of 
the su>eat$, which cease to reduce 
Ilia weight : and by the manner in 
which be performs one mile at the 



top of his speed. K is as ^MeA% 
to run a mile at the tof of one^ 
speed, as to walk a hundred, ami 
therefore^ if he performs this short 
distance welt, it may be eoiickided> 
that bis condition ia perfect, tn 
that he has derived all the ad van- < 
tages which eanpoasibjy result from 
the training process. 

The maiimer of training jocftie* 
is different from that which ia ajK* ^ 
plicaMe to pecWstriaua and pugi- 
lists. In regard to jockiM, it ia 
generally wasting, with tbe view 
to reduce their weight. This ia 
produced by purgatives, emetics, 
sweats, and starvation. Their 
bodily strength is of no import- 
ance, as they have only to vauage 
tbe reins of the courser, whose 
deetness depends upon tbe weight 
he carries ', and the muscular 
power of the rider is of no oonse* 
qaence to the race, provided it he 
ec^ual to tbe fatigue of a three or 
four -mile heat. 

Training for pugilistn is nearly 
the same as for pede^trianism, the 
object in both being prinetpally 
to obtain additional tiiiiri and 
strength. — But it will be best ilius- 
trated by adetailof the process eb« 
served by Crib, the champion of 
England, preparatory to his^'anr) 
battle with Molim;u«^ which UhM 
place on the 29tb ^i 8eplemlier^ 
1811. 

The champion at rived Skt Ury 
on the 7th of July of that year. 
He weighed sixteen stoae» ^ and 
from bis mode of living in London, 
and the confinement of a crowded 
city, he had become corpulent, big- 
bellied, full of griiss humours, and 
short-breathed ; and it wai» with 
difficulty he could walk ten miles». 
He first went through a course of 
physic, which consisted of three . 
doses j hut for two weeks he 
walked about as he* pleased^ and ' 

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f^nelildly traveled tbc woods and* 
plantations wiHi a foVling-piece 
in bis hand. The reports oi his 
iBusquet resounded every where 
throngh the grove* and the hol- 
lows ot* that delightful place, to the 
great terror of the magpies and 
•Wood -pigeons. 

Aher amusing himself in this 
way for ahout a fortnight, he then 
commenced his regular walking 
fesrerelse, which at tii-st was about 
len or twelve miles a day. It was 
aooB after increased to eighteen or 
twenty'-- and he ran regularly, 
mornifig and evening, a quarter of 
a mffe at the top of his speed. In 
consequence of his pnysic and ex- 
ercise, iiis weight was reduced, in 
the course of five weeks, from six- 
teen stones to fourteen and nine 
pounds. At this period, he com- 
mencecl h\9 sweats, and took ihteb 
during the month he remained at 
Ury afterwards; and his weight 
was gradually reduced to thirteen 
stones and five ponnds, which was 
ascertained to be his pitch of con- 
dition, as he wouhr not reduce far- 
ther without weakening. 

During the course of his train- 
ing, the champion went twice to 
the Highlands, and took strong 
exercise. He walked to Mar 
liodge, which is about sixty miles 
distant from Ury, where he arrived 
to dinner on the second day, being 
now able to go thirty miles a day 
with ease, and probably he could 
have walked twice as far if it had 
been necessary. He remained in 
the Highlands about a week each 
time, -and amused himself with 
shooting. The principal advan- 
tage which he derived from these 
expeditions' was the severe exer- 
cise he was obliged to undergo ia 
following Captain Barclay. He 
improved more in strength and 
wind by bis jourmes to the High^ 



lands than by any other partof thts 
training process. 

His diet and drink were the 
same as used 'in the pedestrian re- 
gimen, and in other respects, the 
rules previously laid down were ge- 
nerally applied to him. That he 
was brought to his ultimate pitch 
of condition, was evident from the 
high state ofhealth and strength iti 
which he appeared when he mount- 
ed the stage to contend with Moli- 
neux, who has since confessed, 
that when he saw his fine condi* 
tion, he totally despaired of gain* 
ing the battle. 

Crib was altogether about ele- 
ven weeks under training, but he 
remained only nine weeks at Ury. 
Besides bis regular exercise, he 
was occasionally employed in spar- 
ring at Stonehaven, where he gave 
lessons in the pugilistic art. He 
was not allowed much rest, but 
was constantly occupied ia some 
active employment. He enjoyed 
good spirits, being all the tiqie 
fully convinced that he would bea(f 
his antagonist. He was managed^ 
however, with great address, and 
the result corresponded with the 
wishes of his friends. 

It would be perhaps improperi 
while speaking of Cril), to omit 
mentioning, that, during his resi- 
dence in the north of Scotland^ hei 
' conducted himself in all respects 
with much Jiropriety. He shewed 
traits of a feeling, humane^ and 
charitable disposition, on various 
occasions. — %Vhile walking along 
Union-street in Aberdeen, he was 
accosted by a woman sipparently 
in great distress. Her story af- 
fected him, and the emotions of his 
heart became evident in the mus- 
cles of his face. He gave her all 
the silver he had in his pocket.— « 
*' God bless your honour,** she 
sftid, " ye are surely not an ordinary 

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taan /"—-This circumstance is men- hanging her, because she coold n# 
\ioned with the more pleasure, as it longer << take the lead and keep it'* 
affords one instance at least, in oppo- She arrived there on a Sunday, and 
sition to the misuken opinion, that remained apparently satisfied with 
professional pugilists are ferocious, her new quarters, until Tuesday 
and -totally destitute of the better afternoon, when she absconded, and 
propensities of mankind. The illus- on the following Friday after, made 
trious Mr. Windham entertained her appearance at homey so com* 
juster sentiments of the pugilistic art, pletely exhausted, that she had not 
igs evinced by the print he presented strength left to lap a little milk* 
to Mr. Jackson as a mark of his The distance is not Tery great* 
esteem. In one compartment, an (about forty-two miles), but I cer- 
Italian darting his stiletto at his vie- tainly think it very extraordinary 
tim is repiiesented ; and in the other, her coming through such a place as 
the combat of two Englishmen in a London, and of course over one of 
ring. Tor this celebrated genius the three bridges, usually ao crowds- 
was always of opinion, that nothing ed, excepting for thr^ or four hours 
tended more to preserve among the in the middle of the night, par- 
English peasantry those sentiments ticularly as she had never been even 
of good faith and honour which used to a country town, but first 
have ever distinguished them from saw light, and passed the whole of 
the natives of Italy and Spain, than her life, at a lone insulated house, 
the frei^uent practice of fair and open She was a white bitch, excepting 
Boxing. her ears, which were yellow, and 

^ remarkably fond of being noticed, 

" ■ ' " so that I cannot think how she 

SAGACITY OF A OREY- ^^n, had she come through in the 

HOUND. day time ; I am therefore disposed to 

believe she passed through in the 

To the Editor of the Sporting Mq" night. 

gazme. Poor Trenck had better have 

SIR, remained in Kent, as about a month 

THE following fact, if you think after her return, she was bitten by 

it worth insertion, is very much a mad dog, with fiyt or six of her 

at your service ; and I hope it will companions, and was, in company 

be a sufficient excuse for my trou- with them, immediately shot. 

Uing you, that, both ancient and I remain. Sir, your humble ser- 

modem writers have thought it vant, T. C. 

worth while to record the faithful- Hitchin, Herts, Feb. a6, 1813. 

ness of the dog and his attachment -— 

to home. NEW WORK ON ANIMALS ; 

About two years ago, I gave a SPORTING PICTURE, 

greyhound bitch, named Trenck, to — - 

a brother of mine, residing at Black- A Description of more than Thres 

heath, who received her as a pension- Hundred Animals, including. 

er, by way of reward for her past Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, 5er-. 

services (which had been eminent), pents,' and Insects, ^c. 4c. Ssc^ 

that she might pass the remainder with elegant Wood Cuts, price 

b£ her days in ease^ m preference u^ in l2mo. 5«. 6d. boards, at oa 



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film demff octaw^aper, lOf* 6d. 
Cro$by and Co, 

^HIS publication, we make so 
doubt, will prove equally iote- 
resting, to tbe Fomler, who salutes 
the earliest rays of tbe morn, in tbe 
field; to tbe rapid Hunter, wbo 
pursues the deer in the forests j to 
tbe patient Angler, on tbe flowing 
banH of tbe brook ; and in general 
to every Sportsmafh whose plea* 
sure, calls bim abroad^ and who 
feels inclined to study nator e tbere. 
It is for this peculiai* reason that 
we intend to give our opinion upon 
this work, and to present our rea- 
ders with quotations relative to the 
different objects of their pursuits. 
The style, free front affectation and 
pomposity, is elegant, and adapted 
to the subjects successively treated ; 
well-selected passages from cele- 
brated authors ; short views of ori- 
ginal poetry; personal and well-au- 
thenticated observations, accompa- 
nied by anecdotes 5 contribute to 
render the book truly instructive 
and amusing, and to convey more 
cfiectually to tbe mind, tbe charac- 
teristics of the animals described 
therein. 

The delineation of tbe Fox is 
particularly pleasing. 

" The Fox is produced in most 
countries, and varies much in size 
and colour. In Muscovy some are 
white, some red, and others black. 
His abode is generally on the skirt 
of a wood, in a hole which some 
other animal has either voluntarily 
left or been driven from. Nature, 
wbo endowed him with sagacity, 
craft, and cunning, has not, how- 
ever, allotted bim a long life ; be- 
ing classed by her among the dog. 
kind, the duration of his existeace 
does not exceed twelve or fifteen < 
years. His bite is tenacious and 
dangerous, as tbe 86V«rest blows 



.cannot make bim quit bit bold ; . 
hh eye is most significant, and ex- 
pressive of every passion, as love, 
fear, hatred, &c. Tbe Fox is tli« 
greatest enemy to tbe poultry-yard* 
which be depopulates often in tbe 
course of one night. But wbeiii 
his choice food, the chicken flesh, 
is not accessible, then be devours 
animal food of all kinds, even ser- 
pents, lizards, frogs, toads; and 
if his habitation is near tbe water, 
be even Contents himself with shell- 
fish. In France and Italy he does 
a great deal of damage in vine- 
yards, being very fond of grapes^ 
and spoiling many for the choice 
of one bunch: bis stratagems are 
well known, and need not to. be r^ 
corded here." 

Tbe noble inhabitant of tbe fo- 
rest, tbe Stag, is well described im 
the following article : . 

" The Stag is generally famed 
for long life, bqt upon no cer'taiA. 
.authority. Tbe naturalists agree, 
bowever, upon this point, that biar 
life may exceed forty years, but 
that his existence, as it has been 
asserted, reaches to three centuries, 
is not sufficiently proved to claim 
our belief; be comes to bis full 
growth at five, soon after which 
his horns, which are yearly she4 
and renewed, grow from a n«r<^' 
rower basis, and are less branch- 
ing. He is the tallest of the deer 
kind. Tbe Stag is called Ha|^ 
after be has completed bis fifth 
year. This creature is known in' 
many countries; tbe female, called 
the Hind, is without boms« Every 
year, in tbe month of April, the 
male loses bis antlers, and con- 
scious oH his temporary weakness, 
hides himself till his new ones are- 
hardened. Little need be said o£ 
tbe pleasure taken in bunting tbe, 
Stag, tbe Hart, and tbe Roe-huck^ 
it being a Diatter well known ia 

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.thtfl country, and in all parts of £ki«* 
rope. His flesb is- aecocmted an 
wexcelient food> anO even his borns, 
«o- useful to cutlers^ when induced 
4o ppw<ler^ are much esteemed fa 
physic umler the common name of 
kdrkshorn. The swiftness of the 
^Btag is become proverbial, and the 
diversion of hunting tiiis creature 
bas, for ages, been iooked upon as 
ft royal amusement* When fati- 
(gued in the chase, he often throws 
bimseif in a pond of water, or 
crosses a river^ and, when caught, 
lie sheds tears like a child. Our. 
great Bard, Shakespeare, gives us 
% beautiful description of this cir- 
tnmstanoe in " Ai You hik% It^* 
iwt II. scene I. 

•« To the ^hich place a poor sequestcr*d 
Stag, 

That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a 
hurt, 

|>id come lo languish ; and indeed, my 
lord. 

The wretched animal heavM forth such. 
' groans 

That tat\x discharge did stretch his lea- 
thern coat 

Almost to bursting i and the big rcnnd 
. tears 

Cours'd one another down his innocent 
nose 

l» piteous ebase. 

i The Horsey and the various 
Ikiards of this most useful animal, 
are faithfully delineated ; and the 
•rticle of the Hare, does great cre- 
iik to the feelings of the author. 

I The Partridge merited, and haa 
Stained a canspicuous place in the. 
|0gia8 of this publication. 

. .*' The partridge is in welglit about 
fiuut^n ounces. The shape of 
tiuabind is peculiar to himself and 
t)ie <|ttail, having both u very abort 
tail y hia phimage, although it can** 
wit boast of gaudiness, is very 
plaasudg to the eye, being altoge- 
t|i^ m, mixture of brown and fawn 
Oilour itttersperscd with gr^y and 



ash colour tints. The bead is small 
and pretty, the beak strong, yel 
not long, and resembling that of 
aH other granivorous birds. Th* 
femUle lays fifteen or eighteen eggs, 
and leads her brood in the com 
fields with the utmost care. It is 
even told, that when sbe finds that 
the pointer is at hand, she turns 
out, afi'ecting lameness, to decoy 
the dog, and thereby gives her 
brood time to escape the enemy's 
search. Partridges fly in com- 
paniesi the young never leaving the 
old ones till after February, when 
they pair together and fly by two 
and two. 

♦• The shooting of Partridges, 
Quails, anVi other innocent inhabi- 
tants of the fields, where they live 
at no body's ex pence, upon what 
the last gleaners have left behind, 
is well described in the following 
lines: 



« -. 



Now mark' 



The fowler, as he stands and meditates 
The cruel deed t See how, with steady 

grasp, - • 
He holds the thundering messenger of 

death; 
His eye fix'd, — levellM on the fatal tiibc| 
His forward le^, — Amidst the bristling 

corn 
His do^ as if by skllfnl Ftaxman cat 
In Parian stone, or cast in lasting brenstf 
By far-fam'd Westmacott, stands forth 

unmov'd, 
Ready to give the deadly signal.—— 

Hark4 
'Tis done— shot through the heart, sbe 

reels, she falls. 
Far from her nest; whilst th' unsuspect* 

ing mate 
Still leads the fluttering covey through 

the field." 

Z. 

The descriptions of the Pike and 
the Carp, deserve also the attention' 
of the reader. 

" Thb Pike— The regions of 
fresh water have their sharks s« 
well as the empire of the seas. 
This ish lives in rivers^ lakes^ and 

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pDnds : &ndj in a confiaed piece of 
water^ he will soou destroy all 
otber fish, as be jgeuerally does not 
feed upon any thing ebe^ and often 
swallows one nearly as big as him- 
self; for through his greediness in 
eating, he takes the head foremost, 
and so draws it in l)y a little and 
little at a time, till he has absorbed 
the whole. } remember to have 
seen in the stomach of a large Pike 
a gudgeon of good size, the head 
of which had already received clear 
marks of the power of digestion, 
whilst the rest of the ^sh \yas ^till 
fresh and unimpaired. 

** It is a veiy long-lived fish. In 
the year }4gy, a Pike was caught 
at Hailbrun in Swabia, to which 
was affixed a brazen ring with the' 
following words engraved on it ir^ 
Greek characters, " J am the fish 
which was first of all put into this 
lake by the bands of the governor 
of the antverse, Frederick the Se- 
cond, the fifth of October, 1 230.'* 
The Pike has a flat head and sharp 
teeth in his jaws, the under one of 
-which is much more prominent 
tban the superior- one. This fish 
is of a white^ firm, dry fleshy and 
wholesome. The larger and older, 
the more esteemed. The bones 
are long and pliant, and easily ex- 
tracted in eating. The following 
lines are poetically expressive of 
the danger in which smaller fishes 
are at the approach of the Pike : 

* Bewaie, ye barmlcM tiibes ; tbetyiant 

CDfDCS,' 

Exdaims the stlver'manded Naiad of 

the pond, 
'* Bewaiey ye fiiiting giu^eoiis, bodiels 

fiiii-. 
And ye, qafck-swimmiog miiisiows, 

glidios eels. 
And all who brcaibe the lucid crystal of 

the lake. 
Or lively spoft betwixt die dsibing 



Grim death awaits yau In h1s'gapift|^ 

jaws 
And lurks behind his hungry Ikogt** 

beware !" 

2. 



Of liver milb, beware; the tjmu 



'* The best manner of cooking the ♦ 
Pike is to boil it in wine and water* 
or, in the absence of wine, with' 
vinegar, accompanied with par«. 
sley, carrots, and other roots of 
agreeable flavour. It is served 
cold, upon a napkin, and eaten 
with oil and vinegar^ with anchovy 
or cavice sauce.'* 

•* The Carp has a great fame for 
the. sweetness of its flesh, and ap- ' 
pears often with great repute on 
our tables, when measuring twelve 
inches between the eye and the be* 
ginning of the tail. The scales 
are large with a golden gloss upon 
a dark green ground. They grovr 
sometimes to a great size, being 
then three or four feet in length* 
and contain a great quantity or fat* 
The soft roe of the Carp is esteem* 
ed a great delicacy amon)( the 
epicures on our board. In th« 
canals of Chantilly^ formerly the 
seat of the Prince of Conde^ Carps 
have been kept for above one hun« 
dred years, most of them appear* 
ing hoary through old age, and so 
tame that they answered to their 
names when the keeper called them 
to be fed. This fish has very small 
teeth and a broad tongue ', the tail 
is widely spread as well as the fins^ 
which are inclined to a reddish tint# 
Those that live in rivers and run* 
ning streams are most approved, 
as those which inhabit the pocils, 
and pond^ have generally a intuUy 
disagreeable taste. It is saiil that 
they were brought first to England 
by Leonard MascbaU ab<>at two 
bandret 1 ami fifty yea r9 a g o . T hey 
arc very tenacious of life, and when 
eat in quarters, the bead bein^ 
divided ill t«ro^ the pieces bate 

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often been seen to jump off the dicated by permission to General 

dresser table^ and even out of the Manners^ and will most probably 

Jhfvng'pan into the fire, which cir- be much patronised, paiticdarly 

cumstauce has given birth to the by those Sporting Gentlemen wbo 

proverb. have partaken of the pleasure which 

-., _ '. I . «*!.*». «. • f the pack afforded in the best d^ys 

• In genial sprinr^ beneath the quiv r- - T . mi tr j 

ing shade ®* **^ prosperity.— The Hounds 

Where cooling vapours breathe along are to be disposed of early io April 

the mead, 

The patient fisher takes bis silent stand ^ 
Intent, his angle trembling in his haiid ; 
"With k)oks unraov*d, he hopes the scalr »,,,^^ ^^,,^«, . 

breed, / HYDROPHOBIA. 

And ejes the dancing cork and bending ' 

reed. 

Our plenteous streams a various race ^HAT dreadful disease, the hy» 

supply, A drophobia> has been for some 

The bright;ey'dpearch with fins of Tyw ^.^^ r ^^^^^^^^ .^ ^^^ ^^^^ 

nan aye ; i c •»« t 

The silver eel in shining volumes roU'd. f" the Sussex coast. . Messrs. Lee, 

The yellow Carp in scales be-drop'd with in their Lewes Journal, oi the 22d 
go^d; of March, give the following in- 
Swift trouts, divcfsify'd with crimson teresting particulars on this sub- 

stains, * ». 

And pikes, the tyrants of the wai'ry J^^** • ' - 

plains.* " A numW of dogs having 

^ Popes ffindsor Forest, lately run mad at Rose-Hill, and 

in the neighbourhood of that place^ 
We must conclude^by observing, producing mischief to an extent 
that every animal is most accu- that cannot be ascertained, John 
lately delineated in a wood-cut. Fuller, Es(j. reflecting on the hor- 
•xetuted virith truth and elegance, ^4 effects of hydrophobia, and as 
and that the whole has been so g,, example to others whom it may 
carefully attended to, that it may concern, on Monday, the 15tl in- 
he placed in the hands of youth of sUnt, highly to his honour, gave 
either sex, with confidence and directions for the destruction of all 
•afety. Persons of a more ad- fajs valuable dogs, and they were 
▼anced age, will find in the work accordingly, killed, consisting of 
entertainment and instruction, and f^^ur brace of high-bred spaniels, 
in order to render the study of na- (whose excellence was the labour 
tare more easy, and to facilitate of many years), and a very supe- 
references to larger works upon ^ior pack of barriers. The spa- 
aatural history ; the author has niels bad, a long time, been the 
added a full and correct index of admiration and envy of the sport- 
all the names in English, Latin, jng world, as few, if any, could be 

and French. fowQd to equal them in the field for 

■ beauty and action. Two of them 

Mr. R. B. Davis proj>oses pub- have constantly accompanied Mr. 

lishing by subscription, a Print, of Fuller's gamekeeper for leu sacces- 

his Majesty's Harriers, containing sive years, in the pursuit of wood- 

the Huntsman and Whipper-in, cocks, with unprecedented success^ 

with their Horses, and about thir- having had shot to them, within 

teen couples of Hounds : it is de- the above-men tidued time, three 

humlrcH 



TflS SVORTIKG UAOAZtSOL Tff 

fcptiUM Mi Ibpr lir«ce of t]i«t de<- occatioDs, imrtienhiiy At (oftrnvr, : 

UcifMis bird. who stated hif hamg tmtimd * 

''. A printed paper, cootaiaing ehalkngefr^m lAe dfcmmd, wMdk 

<be following caation, has been he did not tkuk j>np9r iff moftpk 

ckeiilated through the parish of It also appaaM in ««idiBCe> Ihafe 

Brigh tling :— ^ Cautio v. — ^la cob» the deceased bad poshed Lkntepaot 

sequence of the number of dogs , Stuart out of his lodgitiga '' like a 

that have been, and now are. id^ dog,*" and that he refused to apo- 

fected with that dreadful disease logise; that the parties fired by . 

Che hydrophobia^ in this neigh* word; that on. the first fire JUeii* 

bonrhood, the Magistrates request tenant Stnart^s ptaiol SQapfied^ 

that all dogs may l)e closely con* wbiUt the ball from tbatof lutop* 

fined, until every danger is. sup* ponent nearly shot him. The aia* 

posed to be over; and recommend tol of the deceased itsb nr h»Ad, 

to the owners immediately to de- wJien they fired togiethcr» aiill ftiiw- 

iStroy such of them as can, by any tenant Stuart's j6^ sAol tooh ete^ 

possibility, be supposed to have Surgeon Madden proved that irtttt* 

been bitten.* tenant 9tnaK cs^aie to Uia ta-the 

'* Qd Monday, the 13th* a Jai^ gteatesiagita^oo* aad-seat Wmto 

mastiff dog, belonging- to Mr. T. the aaii^tanpe of thedeeeaaeds he» 

^hatfield, of Lewes* betragrsd Stifart; also sent peofda from; a 

strong symptoms of madness;, he neigbboiuring. cottage* |twaidis<« 

"was IB conseqaence chained up* tij^pdy proved^ tiiaS Ijaulenaat 

and ciied of the dreadful makdy, Staaix eviaoed oa this aielsnaholy 

ia loss than fiirtyrdght hoais af- afi^ir. the grelitesi haiaanity Mui 

terwaxds,'* . feeUa^ iWiaas Io;ei|lfriagoa 

^ his defeaoe* tha psiaaaar addiamrt 

■ ■■ ■ ■ '" ' ■ " ^ ■ ' . ' == tbe.Coqrt as falloirs ^-** 

TRIAL FOR DUELLING. a,^ J^^^^dSSSZ 

tunste. situation kk wllich: I 



XJAVING ia a. former Magaxiae* nlacefl^ haiiiqg tUs day faaidtap ai 

giv«i the particulars of the hand which' ne«er4iclbm was iiiiat<l; 

fatal duel between Lieateinaots except in^ the deleace of < ny |ftOD^ 

Stuart and Bagnell, of the Royal or my. country, it-ia a dui^ "Lvm^ 

Marines, at Portsmouth, when the to myself*, to addresa a ia«r> words . 

latter gentleman was ua^ortaoalely to you relative to itv Qeotteinenp. 

killed, we think it necessity to no^ no one can moite deeply -deiylore the 

tice that Iiienteoant Stuart was ar^ death of Lieutenant Bagtiell than 

raigned at^be late Winchester As* 1 do, and, 1 trust,^ the sorrow, 

sises, together with Lieutenant evinced by me oa tba< occasioii*. 

O'Hanlou, second to the deceased, will operata as- a proof of what L 

oothecbargeof Wilful Murder, as say, and have its dua weight oa 

seturned by the Coroner's Inquest, your minds. It is with the greatese 

The only additional evideoca reluctaace that 1 am obliged to caUl 

which af^>earsd on the trial, was the eraors of the deceased froa^ 

that of Major*General Winter, the tomb; but without partieu* 

aad^other Officers* who folly proved larly dwelling on the infirnutiea 

^intemperate and overbiearing of bis temper, I solemnly de<i 

eonduet of the deceased oaseveriS dare, thai the provocation^ ori^ 

Vou XLl^No. 20. O ginall| 



iyr 



XH£ SPORTING MAHIAZQfe. 



^ ginmtty ' prdcoediog from him, 
iMis ccmtitlued and repeated until 
tl»'6lUl boor of bis death. Un- 
ilcr aii'irritarion of mind so excit- 
ed, the dreadRd eatastropbe took 
plb(if>; Itirieh is the cause of my 
bMiig'phieed in this ai«ful and 
dreadfol sitnatidn.—- G^tlemen, I 
appeal to you as men of sense and 
feeling, is not the law of boiioor as ' 
imperutite as the law of the land ? 
He who has the temerity to violate 
n "Single ai'ticle of its sacred code, 
meets wsovse'tban death, eternal irt^ 
fem^, 'He is like the ontcast In- 
dian of the Bast 9 it is contamina- 
tkm A) touch ; it is disgrace to 
spcRfk't(» biui. If, then, Gentle- 

^ men;* it presses so severely on the 
citfken, how - tytanhically does it 
dictate to 'tl|e military man ? In 
fact, be Who refuses to resent an 
iaaultr loseil h i^ commission. Gen- 
tlemn^n, it is^ for you to' wei^h the 
evidtei^^, to correct if, and to de- 
cide im my fattf j -hiK I have a firm 
retlatv0eoii your wlsdotu, I trust to^ 
yourjustice,*hiit, abov^'allvl hope 
Ar:^M^iMrcy> that wisdom, the' 
nc^dfLfaillmg attendteiC 'on liberal 
attd Enlightened ladmts, for that 
iBeifey 'which at' ail times has so' 
pre(yd1y atrd f^re-eminentty distin- 
gakbe^ Jury of Bnglishmen/* 
' Sev^rdlOfficers spc^e to the cha- 
m^tew of the prisoners, 'and aftdr a 
-vnery Cibte charge from Baron Sir 
Ge#rge Wood, in which he dwelt 
at sotote* length on the deceased's 
bavitig fired two shots for the pri- 
soner's one, and on the latter's hu- 
manity inexposing himself to send 
the oAly assistance which the de- 
<;eased received, on the gross insult 
whkb a military man caftnot .re- 
ceive without resenting, advierting 
to the attention and friendship dis- 
-played by Lieutenant 0*Haa)oB to 
bis deeemed friend-— The Jury, 
ykhoQt j^tiring from the box^ tc4 



tamed a 'verdict ot NH - Gitiify,' 4ar' 
the evident satisfaction of a crowd- 
ed Court, 



I " r n 1' '. f 



:±=jc: 



T. r ' I 



3Xt 



CHARACTERrSTIC ANECDOTfe 
OF A FRENCHMAN. 

JOHNSON sarcastically said of. 
a French 6[i an— 

*^ AU «deiice» a fasdne Monsieur knows, 
And, bid him go to hell — ^to heU he goes.** 

The following anecdote, from 
Cbateau-Briand, proves at least 
the truth of the first line of the 
preceding couplet ;-*- 

'* The national cbaractet*,*' says 
be, *' cannot be extinguished; Oar 
seamen have a sayings that in 
founding new colonies, the Spa- 
niards begin with building a 
cborch, the English a taven>, and 
the French a fort, an<l I woald 
add, a ball-room. . When I- wa» in 
America, on the frontiers of the 
country of the Savages, I was in- 
formed, that in the next day*s 
journey I should meet with a coun- 
tryman of mine among t^e In- 
dians. On my ' arrival among the 
Cayotigas^ a tribe belonging to tba 
Troquois nation, my gttitie con- 
ducted me into a forest. In the 
midst bf this forest stood a kind of 
barn, ifi which I found about a 
score olf^^ages, of both sexes, be- 
daubed like conjurors, with their 
bodies half naked, their ears cut 
into figures, raven's feathers on 
their heads, and rings passed 
through their nostrils. A liftle 
Frenchman, pow<Iered ancr frizzed 
in. the old fashion, in a pea-green 
coat, a drugget waistcoat, muslin 
frill and ruffles, was scraping away 
on his kit, and making these Tro- 
quois dance to the tune of Made" 
Ion Friquet. M. Violet, for that 
was bis name^. foUowed the.pso- 



THE SPORTING HAGAZINS. S^gr 

Ai^ioti of liaBcing-master amoiig meiqbrtnce the IniUr /^is la hm^ 
tile savages, by whom he was paid aioo^g the Jews at ibis. ttiMDi^- 
fefr his lessons in beaver s^ios and though.attliesame time bacoo vviit 
bears^ hams. He had hee;i a scid- always part of tlie . Ra^fir ibi)ej> t# 
lioQ in the service of General Ro*> denote . % contcu^pt. of . JudaiinBU 
chaqibeau> '• during the American The Jews, however^ theniselwi^ 
war» hilt remaining at New York, long since contrived to , diminish 
after the return of th^ French the bitter flavour of the tansy, by 
9Tvnf, he resolved to give the Ame« making it a pickle for their pasehu 
rtcans instvuction in the $ne. aits, lamb, from whence we borrowed 
Hji> viewsr hf^ving enlarged with his the custom of taking mint and 
^cftsss, the new Orpbeus resolved sugar as a general sauce for that 
to intfodnce. civilization even a-* description of food. 
Qioiig.the roving hordes of the New The festivities of the May-pole, 
World V In speaking to me of the coihing probably by legitimate. de« 
Indians, he. always styled them : scent from the Roman game, calleU 
'' Cef Jffessieurs Sauvi^ges,** and Floralia, in honour of the goddess 
*f Qts Dapi£s Bauvciges" He be- Flora, were once general in this 
stowed great ivaise on the agility cotintty. Even the priests, joining 
of his scholars, and in truth never with the people, used to go in pro« 
did I witness such gambols in my cession to some adjoining wood on 
life* , M. Violet, boldii^ his fiddle the May morning, and return ia 
Uejtjwe^n bis chin igodhis breast^ triumph with the much-prized pole, 
tuned the fatal instrufpent : l^ adorned with boughs and other 
then, cried out in Troquois, " Tb. toke«s of the spring seasdn. And 
your places r and the whole tropp our monarchs themselves, bending, 
fell a.captering lik^ a band of de* to the usages of the times, used to 
icons/. Such is the genius of na- make, parties of pleasure oaUtd 
tioqs ]*' . . Mayings, even to so late a period- 

- v-..>.,/ ■:,:.■ .,.,,,. ■ .■> , of our- history as that of Henry 

the Eighth, who assembled hit 

ANCliBNt Ct^STOMS. Mrhole court upon one of thdse fea- 

■■ • tive occasious .at Shooter*s Hiil». 

A MQJ^GST the customs which; These Mayings are ^tiU practised 

f6rn\^dy.prevjiiled;in,tbisooun- in the West and North, of £ng* 

try during the season of Lent, was land. The May-pole, once fixed^ 

th^ following : — ^An ofijcer, deuo- remai/ied until the etid of the year« 

ininated the King's Cock Grower, and was resorted to at ail other 

crowed the hour each night, within seasons of festivity as well as dur* 

thej>recin<^ of the palace, instead ing.M^y. Some made of a mora 

of proclaiming it in the ordinary durable nature^ even iiemaiiied .for 

manner of watchmen. Tbis ab- years } being merely fresh orpa^ 

surd ceremony did npt fall into. meQted> instead of being removed, 

disuse till the reign of George I. as was the common practice. The 

. Tbe . custom of . eating Tansy last May-pole in London was taken 

Puddings and Cakes at iKaster, was down in 17 Vf, and conveyed ta 

cpnfined to some few places dis-. Wanst^, in Essex, where it wet 

tant from the metropolis, and was fixed in the perk for the sUfxpoft of 

introduced by the Monks ; wlwre- an immensely large telescope. Itt 

kf, symbolically, tp kee]^ i^ ce- original height wet upwerdt o£ 

o o 2 oee 



no THE SPORTING HAGAZIMfK. 

one btmdred feet above the smface circtmsUuitiatiif true, t «bdt flit 

9i tlie gruuad, and tts ttatioa oo scrm|ileto pass my hearty condeiiH 

litte oaat aide of Somerset^Ueuse, Daticm upoti it, not only as apiece 

wbara thenevr cbarch now stands, of unnecessary and haiiMMrout se* 

Pope Hius perpetuates it reinenl* verity, but of ghiss injustiee, in 

brance:— tbe af»pUcatton of a ptinishmetit 

. * .J ,- ^. . ^ . ,. . due only to crime, or at etoy rtlte 

"^"^it^d, *«* y^ ^ ^k thdr ^^^J^^^ ^^ ^ ^^ JiiH of 

WhcM C^e tdl May-pole oveilookt tbe prudence, or an error in tlie •■!<»'> 
«5^w»<*-" sure of respect 5 ai*l that. In all 

„ . • • probabili'ty, committed wider elr- 

' " enmstances, wbidi rather ciitStled 

ihi the presumed CoKSBauENCES ^ .deWnc|uent to yity. IKsteis* 
' to Society, of BauAL Ramk in »^n. »^fe[«^. n<«tcide, ^^Wwje* 
• Marriages, toUA Illustrative ^ ^T* ^'^^^ pnnisbmentt IWly 
j^^^ commensurtte with tbe ofience, 

_ and they would s(f»o have been 

^ , ^ , ^ , ^ ., «*<wt eAectaat. Surely also, there 

Tq the EdUor of the Spwrtii^Ma^ ^i^y^^ baVe been some vestigc df 
gazine. feik>wfH?*ling, derived from a con- 

9 IS, sideration e? the low, not Indeed 

A LiXDWiNG the fall force of accoixilng to vulgar notions, de<- 
. all that o*n be ttr|i;<ed by arts* based origin of one sidb 'of the 
toeraeic pride and worldly prudence, family, wbidi will doubtless sup- 
in this case, aoniething wiH yet re- pose itself mortally offended, in the 
ipaia in favour of the natumi event of such a change, as their 
aqnahtyof tbehutoanvace, of tfie being treated coolly, and rejteted 
#armest feelings of the tieart, and for their defelct of blood*, b^ the 
of goodness and r^speetabiliTy €>i full-bred and high-flown arisb>« 
eharacter. A bifie well-known oc- craey. This fastidioiia and absurd 
eurrence. Involving tbe fate, pro- conduct, is even actually recoup 
haUy the utter ruin and misery of mended to the great, by a certain 
a meritorious and res|iectabl« fb- periodical and MEtyrical Mis^l- 
r^igneii, who, durii^ a twenty- iauy, f>ritending to philosophy aai 
yeau sojoam in ffait ^oontry, morab. As if the whole merits of 
provdl himself a useful meml^er of the (jiiestlon, did not rsttionally;, 
society. In the honourable line of a^d According to the rules of com* 
edncation, gave immediate rise to mon sen4e, reiide in th^ meritori** 
the abovfs reftection. The recordt dns conduct of the individuals, 
of daily occurrences stated^ ^at whose fault It certainly w^ not 
Bamkuani, an Italian teaicher of that they w«re bbm tV>wards tbe 
husgvages in a family of royal kft hand instead of tht tight, and 
slips, gvowing upon tbe bank^ of wtid bad no more hand i^ their 
the Jordwi^ in eonsequenee of an ciwn' iHejgitilnacy tlVan in the qo- 
impradent advance ia the wii^ vf l(toV ot* their shin. In cotirte, they 
honohirable profession of iove to oilght not tohe scourged, hwthe 
ootof the females, wa« vindictive- int^rejits in IIAf, of tbe Fitxcia* 
1^ pdniiched, by being banished th« rentes, ieit hll |mstponed on such 
aoimtry imder the o|ierationofthe arcoiiht. 
«lita tu^i'ii^axtmg thk H U ftisfMher'l^ntraUy nfpdse^ 

that 



tint^K)Etm<» uAGKziTfm. 



fitt 



hM tlw Afieri act ^s been; on too^^ 
DMitoy occasions, converted into 
the efigine of private Vengeances 
1 riiould b^ very glad of authentic 
coti^adrcttoas of the miany suspi^ 
^orift and stories of this kind, and 
]^rtte«rlariy of that just related. 

The poor naasician, vrho wai 
ntioed at Bath some fifty odd or 
inatt years ago, tor bis pesump-* 
tiou 4n this way of cobrtship, 
marred his<iwn pl^aof pity and for-* 
Keai-ance in setting an example of 
r^V^oge, by which 4Ke in $<^me sort, 
merited the pttai^ttie^n^ of being 
driven ()y general neglect from the 
city, the theatre of bis livelihood. 
The readers of the SpcfriiHg Maga- 
xinCf pai'ticularly such as are weH 
i^ricken in years, will immediately 
recollect the lovely Mrs. Draper, 
thiis iauBortalized by her 'despised 
liad discarded lover-^ 

> ^3 tlie charming 'Mr«i2)raper I 

' SBe— — wii^a khiBet o^broWn papen 

« 

The too ingenious* musician, en- 
raged at the rebuff of 1 believe 
being ttvued neck and heels out of 
floors by the servants, for his in- 
aolent pretensions, wrote a copy 
^i verses, of each of Which the 
above line was the termination and 
chorns; and setting them to a 
most ludicrous and appropriate 
tune, sung them with a. band be- 
fore the lady^s door, The bong 
and tune of Mrs. I>raper^ aUbough 
at present nearly forgotten, were 
extremely popular in jovial com* 
fianies during many years, and 
were often sung to the accompani-- 
mentof jarring and uncouth sounds, 
such as scratching upon ^ tablej, 
Or a knife board*, and for execur 
tion in this kind of melody, a cer- 
tain tyler in Lambeth Marsh, was 
famous about thirty years ago, 
often performing at . the White 
.Worse, or Halfpei^nj flatch^ tbtn 



th^ cQiistant rendetvoim of Pai^ons^ 

the coniediiin— ' ' /* * 



* •(. 



PfiT I've a Oramry 



.AIL0S.8. 



Captain Pbwlett, and 'others of 
that society. After all, it would 
have been something in the naturf 
of bays in the immortal legend of 
Mrs. Draper, had hergenerobs for* 
giveness of the tiinefufl and wlU^^ 
but impudent Lothario, been re^ 
corded. The poor scraper, .fixi|[^r 
Iris liiittd ^npon the natnral equiill^ 
of a two-legg«d raee, feally could 
not brook the dishonour of beinff 
shewn out of doors In an iaif^imf 
way, atid actually preferred his re« 
venge to his hread. I -^onld' ib# 
glad of the informflftiou, Mr. 'Edt<«» 
tor, from some of yotir liumerona 
correspondents, where I Urn t6 
look for the originafl Account of 
the transaction between Mi^. Dra- 
per and her mustc-master, ano( 
whether the lady were of the iPa-« 
rtily of rank so named. ' " ' . 
Our next anecdote Will evlrtdb a 
generoas feeling ^nd regard for 
natural rights, in one sense, lif tt 
lady of high property and cfon^^ 
nexions, although by no means' an 
advodate for the rights of man.' I 
speak of the accomplished and li« 
terary widow of the great BreW^er, 
Ifvho figtired handsomely into the 
state of holymatrinioov with her 
family dancing-master, and nfh^ 
seems, in her own case, to bare 
judeed far more philosophically, as. 
wettas feelingly, than her friend 
and adviser, ^ne aristdcfatic phiio<*' 
sopher. Dr. Johnson. Of the pru« 
dence of her choice, she has nbver 
seen any reason to doubt. Thus 
e(|ua)ity of attachment, of pru- 
dence, and of moral character, ar^ 
of far greater consieqneAce in A 
matrinoniat contract^ than equa- 
lity 



m 



THE 9PORTIN0 MAGAZlSfA 



lity 9f .ivipk or fortnoe. Listen 
to the whole of this, ye pprentSi 
and do DOt overlook the first niera^ 

^ren ! I have the honour to be. 
Sir, Sec. &c. 

^ An OsjssavBR or Fa$9xng 

... JBiVEMTS. 



, ' " SENSES. 
. mediati, ,Sfc, 



' . I 



NJ 



[pX only tbe^ross partiality of 
relations and friepds, ,Wut die 
atilL more gross daubing ysed to 
prowiute the trading juterests of 
BtecatMre, contribute, too ;. fre- 
quently, to render honest an-d me- 
litorious characters perhaps^ abso- 
lutely ridiculous in the graves of 
their proprietors. The easy cuUi- 
bility of the public, ; and the- glo« 
Yious uDcertaiuty of detection, 
^v^^ver,; operate to a perpetual 
coeotirageifent in this case, as 
^e glorious uncertaiiUy of convic- 
tiOflL and of the gallows^ does in 
8i|otber 'f but io both, unhappily, 
BOWS and thcns. as the Scotch say, 
zuurder Will out. 

I was stiroutatecl to the pi;je&ent 
ixpp&e, some few years ago, byth^ 
appearance of Posthumous Bio-^ 
g;i:a|)hica]t Memoirs, m Ileroici, of 
the two personages above maroed^ 
but have never found leisure to dis-- 
burden my opi^essed mind imtil' 
tile present time. I shall do so. 
laow^ pf effacing what I have Xo say 
of my heroes, with the assurance to, 
the reader, that I s|>eakjfi:om .my. 
own,fiersoual knowledge* 

Without auy attention to cbro- 
^<>gy* i will begin with the. re*. 
Bowtfed Captaiix Fowlett, on wilomr 



oDe of the Magti:(iDe8 |JTono^iice| 
a most pomjious eloge^ for his sea*^ 
Qianship, bis generosity, courage^ 
patriot isin«— what not) Indeed^ 
the nnioforiped reader must have 
been led away with the notion 
that the deceased was not only aJl 
iJkat, but farther, that be baJ 
move<l 10 a respectalde rank and 
habits of life. Who^ imleed, coukl 
divine the precise truths through 
the thick shaile of letter- press ho« 
nours? but whi4;h is, that tbisi 
wretched victim of misplaced en« 
logy, was an .«a^y, good-tempered^ 
half-witted, apd thirsty blarU 
guard, whose oonnexioos an<i hs* 
bits of Jife were in very nearly. it» 
k>west walks, and whose intelli- 
gence afforded, to the fleet, was 
of that fortuitous kind, which any 
otiier seafaring ifincompoop, simi-* 
larly circumstanced, might hai*^ 
afforded also. 

Captain Powlett, wTtb idiat 
truth 1 could never ascertain, 
claimed cousin with the Duc^}, or 
Bolton family. He was a n^ste^ 
of some coasting vessel, eithef 
fishing or trading, andw.s fortu- 
nate and acute enough » in the ac- 
cident which involved his future 
fortune, to postpone the object of 
his voyage, and come about ship, 
in order to give Admiral Hawk^ 
as I recollect, intelligence of tlie 
sailing of the French fleet^ aud 
which proved the successful mean 
of our Aihnirars overtaking and 
destroying them. For. this vigi-. 
lamce and attention, he was very 
properly rewarded by ^the Admi- 
ralty with .a pension of, I know 
not how many, score pbupds per 
auburn, Wixether x)r not he re- 
tired instantly from the seafaring 
profession* I ftm uniufovmed, since. 
I knew nothing of liim, until I 
first saw .him spioking his pipe at 
the Haifpeony HaUh^ or Wbity 
"^ ' ' ' fiorse# 



rfHE SPORTING MAGAZINE 2*S- 

Jione^Lambetb Marib, about the lescjue, than to affonl an aecnrato'' 

y^tLt 1779/ almost adjoining to portraifture-of the*' character of the ' 

which was his woo<len dwelling, d(^rted ci^aiedUin: Indeed^- I 

approached by a bridge of similar couM see nothing in tbe 'real th^ ^ 

materials, across a duck puddle, ing' nian^ of a 'Squire Parsons^ * 

Here he spent his pension^ auden-<> adorned with literary attainments^ " 

joyed the otium cumdigniiaie with or any remarkable di^pkty of the 

bis wife, and the aid and solace of liberal sentiments and tnaimerd of 

tobacco^ ale, and jackey, and be- a gentleman. He poK^essed a fund 

ing occasionally not drunk, toge« of natural good common sense^ and 

tbor^theoue was able to assist the much sagacity, and the whole of 

ocher, in case of a fall into the this fund he appeared to expend in 

ditch, which was by no means a his improvement in that peculiar 

Very rare occurrence. Biographi- walk of his profession, in wb-icti 

cal fidelity, however, reijuires of his forte lay, and in which consist^ 

Hie to state the acknowledged fact,' ed his chief reputation. With this 

that the noble Captain*s wife above view* as well probably as from na- 

quoted, was the wife-con!»ort, or tural impulse, he spent his life 

jresident merely, for she was, in re- among coiti pan ions of a very hum« 

a|ity, the lawful wife of a black hie order, and his time seems ta 

man, then said to be living at one have been pi^etty equally dividecf 

of the out-ports ; and the Captain l>etween the theatre and , bit 

bad also a lawful wife then living, country-house at Lambeth Marshy 

andfiirmgtbe station of a huckster* in very near neighboufbood to the 

of .poultry in Wfaitechapel, with a Halfpenny Hatch, where Parsons 

l^itiniate daughter* This lady might often be seen, whiffing bis 

used occasionally to make the )>tpe, and ((Haffing bis ale, in com- ' 

White Horse a scene of confusion, }mny with Captain Powlett and bis 

by the burricadv^ which she raised wife. Tommy Allen, and the rest 

in the ears of tha Captain, and of of the inmates of poor old Judy* 

her rival. But it js time to say. Glover's rendezvous. * Here the 

God rsst their souls ; and it is use- glass of Lambetb Marsh ale went 

fttl, occasionally, to rake into the merrily round, to the oki tune of 
ashes of biography, in order to de- '^.^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ 

tect those impositions wbicb feed D^e think the town will dandle;, 

an unprofitable vanity, and to cau« Or who will hold a candle ? 

tion the living of. the necessity of ^ ^^e Bot a ^^^"|.^^*^^j^ ^ , 

real and unimpeachable desert, to 7 / • 

the attainment of lasting fame. In all probability, be was then a 

^ I wish only to say a few words laudable economist, notwithstand* 

lespeeting Parsons, and that by no ing the suspicion that be must 

means with the view Co detract have been previously otherwise^ 

from the real. Intrinsic merits of since it was said that his wile, with 

kift character, which were consi- whom he did not then cohabit, 

derable in bis profession, as a re* brought him a dowry of five thou* 

nremtative of the oddities and sand pounds. Parsons, neverthe-i 

aisarreries of middling and lower less, did hot regard the wife so 

life. My objections only lie a- much as the poition, andinccmser- 

jg;aJiist a piece of bigb-fiown bio- quence, substituted, in bis old dayc»' 

iprapby, r^itber.^alci|)tt(e4- ta bus*, a. young woman, €*id to have been 
t . bit 



SI4 THB KP0RTIN6 lUOAZm& 

bUMmntf mnd by wh<im I bdieve tiaee i\f min^ ot tlie wiphMlftI 
Be ha4 chil^lren? by hU lawful Oftder of the 2001 Marckt \M, 
wife, DODei The ktler probably and by maaw tbeoeaf, ' 



drew from hut a suficiaDt maiote^ permitted the Mid Wm. Weir, tli^ 

panqi^siqceber visits at the White refimenUl Quarter-Master, to 

Horse, not uofrequenty were never make exorbkaol charges on the 

attended with any nnpltaiant oon^ tereral arlielee of regimeBtal ne* 

aacyieneee. retsariesanU ccpiipmeiU foroisbed 

■ ■ . by him to the dragoons of the le* 

gimtnt, and knowingly allowed 

■ > ■■ ■ ^ = ^ii^ j^JjI \y„j^ iireir to derive tn 

unwarrantable and illegal profit, 

COURT.MARi;iAL owt of tbe prices at which the said 

^ jA^tencMl'Cidoml ^alfov^b, articles, or many of them, were by 

qf the Secoml Dra^oont. him furnished lo the regiment, or 

■ . conniving at bis so doing, in dinrat 

Bbnr Gumrdi, tytk Feb. 1813. violation of the above Rcguktions 

Sir, and Orders, and particniariy of 

XIAVING laid before the Frii.ice those issued on the 1st November,. 

Regent, tb.e proceedings of a > 1804^ and such oondoci being 

^•eral Court Martial, held at highly detriroental ami injnrioos. 

Wakefield on tbe 7.tk of January, to bis Majesty*a service, m vioW*' 

1^13, and continued by adjourn* tion of the trust reuoved in him as 

laent to. tba^ I8tth of the same the Commanding Ofiicer of the 2d^. 

i^ontb, for the trial of Colonel orR.N. R. regiment of. dragooDS^ 

!B,oiiert Qalfour, l«ieittenaiU-Colo- and to tbe preiiidicc of good, order 

nel oi. the 2d, or R. N. B. Regi* and military (nscipUne.** 

Vfent pf pragooncu who was ar-. Upon which charges thci Goofi' 

Vaigiied vpon thjB i^er-mentipne4 came to. the IbllowfBg decision! :-^ 

charges, viz. im^ The Court haviog most aariouBly 

** 1st. For issi^nig a^d publisher and attentively, and with- gveaft 

mgin tbeonlerly bpokfiof tbe lil,^ delibei^tion, weig^hed and coasi*? 

or R.^. R, Regiment of Dragoonv dered ihe whole and evcfy part of 

a regimen^tal ordei:, bearing date on tha evidence that has beea brougM 

4>r about the 20th March, 1811, forwacii in supfiort'of the proaeea* 

wherein^ be aii^hori^d and directed tion against the prisoner Colonel 

IVilliiiin Weir, wben regimental Robf^it BaUbur, Lieutenant-Colo* 

Quarter-Blaster, Xp supply the nel gf the 2d> or R. Kw B4. regi«* 

firagoona of tbe Kesfieetive troops men.t of dragooiia, togetter with, 

ctf the regiment with regimental his. defence, and the evidence in 

necessaries, there))y interfering with support thereof^ is. of opinion^ 

the duty and ret»|>onsibility impos- that he, Colonel Roliert Balfisuc, 

ed upon tbe Captains and OIKcers Lieutenant-Colonel of the 2di or« 

commanding troops, by tbe various R-. N. B. regimentof dragoons, in 

Regulations and- Orders issued by Guilty of tbe (kat chaige. 

liis Majesty and tbe Commander in The Court is. also. ai> opiamn*: 

Chief, and particularly by the ge- that he. Colonel Balfcmr, is QaUdtft 

naral Regulations and Onkss^ i&- of the. secomi charge, which beiag- 

sued on the 1st November, 1804. breaches of tbe Articles of Wsr,. 

V 2<Jf For having, continually, the Court, iiMmDan|uiAi3iE,3^te|K% 



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liim, the said Colonel Robert Bal« 
|V}ur. Lieijt^nant-Cplouel of the 
2d, or R. N. B. regiment of dra- 
gcHMis^ to be Cashiened, 

. I am to ac<|uaiut you, that the 
Prince Regent is , pleased, in the 
n^anae anvl on the heltalf of. his Ma* 
jesty, to approve ^wl confirm the 
Hmliiig aivl sentence of the Court ; 
hut his Royal Highness was at 
l!»e same time pleaseii to command 
me to explain^ that upon neither 
^f the -charges does thei^ appear 
wpon the. face of the proceedings 
any thing to imjiute dishonourable 
or unirorthv motives to Colonel 
Dalfour, and that in. exonerating 
fhe prisoner from any unworthy 
in) put at ion, connected with the 
Jleginiencal Order, specified in the 
«;b»rge«, such a favourable view of 
•the. case has its origin in the fol- 
iowiing considerations, vtz. 

Thar although upon minute in- 
vestigation, tbe orcler he issued has 
been found inconsistent with the 
declared Regulations, adduced on 
.the face of the proceedings, that 
•Colonel Balfour was misled by mi«- 
/construction of tlie real meaning 
4>f these Regulations. That bis 
lahsence on leave, in consequence of 
•ill health for many months, ]vre^ 
-eluded his exerting the same watch- 
fulnese over tbe execution of his 
Orders, as he otherwise might have 
done. That jno representations 
having been made to him from the 
other Officers of the regiment, 
(some of whom ^ercised the com- 
-fiiand) duiing his absence, seems to 
have induced him to believe^ that 
the regimental arrangement which 
hehad^nrhorised for the provision 
of necessaries, had in fact been 
Jjieneficial in its effects ; and that 
in conseq4ience of his illness, and 
4ilsoof not having been apprised of 
4iny complaints during his absences, 
tpolonel Balfour was ignorant oi 
: Vot. XU.— No. 246. 



tbe. different articles having been 
over>charged by Quarter- Mastic 
Weir, to the detriment of the men. 

Under all these circumstaacet 
bis Royal Highness was pleased to 
cousider, that a full . distioctioa 
exists to the honour and advantA||t 
of Colonel Balfour, betwoen th# 
abuse of the authority vested in 
the Quarter Master, who has been 
convicted of undue profits upon th* 
sale of necessaries, and the motives 
by which the Cokmel appears irpoa 
the face of the proceed ings« to hnvft 
been actuated in granting /hat au- 
thority. 

Upon the wfaoleofthtse grounds 
therefore, and taking into canai^ 
deration the length of Colonel Bal- 
four's services, and the respectable, 
iity of his character, the Frincft 
Regent was graciously pleased to 
cousider him a fit object tor Royal 
clemency, and to command that be 
should be restored io the functions 
of his Commission. 

His Royal Highness was fur« 
ther pleased to command, that iu. 
•explaining tbe grounds of remit- 
ting the sentence passed upon tbe 
prisoner, he Colonel Balfourshould 
he severely reprimanded in his 
Royal Highnesses name^ and ad- 
monished to he more attentively 
observant in future of tbe rules 
and regulations of the service.^— I 
am. Sir, your*s, &c. 

{Signed) Fjbkoerick, 

Commander in Chief. 



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iSENDING ENGLISH CART 
HORSES TO MOROCCO, 

« 

nPHE Emperor of Morocco has, 
through his Ambassador in tbi« 
country^ requested that a few cart 
horses of the English breeds might 
be Miint to b|m for bis sjLud» atMe^ 

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KAXURAL HISTORY OF THE gtartW. it wtiuW erect clfese like 

ORKNEY ISLANDS. j^,all inmn, and falj a bissiog Hke 

a cat } bill tbe bums were scarer 

ConHnued from pagt %ie. cliscemabie wliert it aird, uulesi 

. to a nice in8L>ection, iti wImcU it 

THB SHORT-BARED OWL. ^^^.^^^ ^^ ^^,, ^^.^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^j 

npHJS bird 1 sbot in the bills of veiora: ot'tbeir neighbours tban they 

Hoy, where it is very fre(|ueuty ought. The ears were surinising- 

and builds its nest arooDg the lieath. ]y Tar^f, opening troni tbe neck to 

-—It is inipudent in breeding- tbe throat, surrounded with a set 

timeysotuetimes catching up chick- of Muall partt^coloured feathers. 

CDS from the doors. 1 have like- The back of the head wus covered 

wise seen it io cha^e of pigeons with brownish feathers, edged with 

in day-light y which is not ordinary grayish yellow ; the back ^nd 

with tbe owl kind. In a nest I coverts are brownish, edged with 

found in Hoy were the remains of a dull yeUow. The legs, to the 

t moor Jowly two plovers, besides nails, are covered wilb whitish 

the feet of several others, and the yellow feathers ; the t^ilU are 

birds, two in nnqiber, ready to fly > dusky, barred with Fed, the second 

the nest was in a large beath-budi, feather serrated ; the tail brown 

made without any art ; intolerably and spotted > the breast and bellj 

letid, by reason of the heat of the a dirty yellow. 

weather, which had putrified some - - 

j^rt of the provisions ; and which 

was »till Increased by the dung, ^^^ raven. 
Sec. of tbe bkds, which the parents In the winter and spring vast 
did not seem so attentive to remove flocks of corbies are seen here, hot 
as I have observed the smaller birds are very wild ; when breed ing*ti me 
vpon such occasions. Thedescrip- draws i>ear they grow much thiu- 
tion of this bird is as follows : ner, many of them, I suppose, go- 
Tbe length of this bird was iog ofl to other count riesr to breed, 
thirteen inches, the breadth three U<»wever, many continue here the 
fleet; the weight, ten ounces and whole year, as. the comury people, 
a half : the bill strong, and much who live in the n>ore hilly parts, 
booked, of a blackish hoirn-vcoloui:, daily experience to their loss ; for 
abnosc buried aniongst a set of in the time of hutching, and when 
whit« bristly feathers; tbe eyes the young flighx are out, tbe pa- 
large and full; the i rides a most rents become very impudent and 
beautifulcoiour, commonly yellow; voracious; then lambs, pigs, and 
the ptupil large, with a nictitating chickens, aiedestroyedinnnml>ers; 
iuemhrane ; the eyelids cov4>re(l and though the corby has not 
>vich black bristles, ronnd them a strength to carry away a lamb or 
4iirf]eof while, mixed with tawny; pi^, yet^t tears out their eyes, en- 
tb« crown of the liead brown, va- trails, .him! what it can manage. 
T^l^ted with lighter colours.-— . The bill and claws of this bird 
Above eao]i eye stood a single fea- are very strong, the. latter much 
tber, taller than the rest, the half b<K>.ked. The colour Is bUck, with 
At' which, |(or one web) whs black a fine gloss ; tlie legs .black, as are 
iHid t4^ other white. While the all the larger feathers ; the l>elly 
bird lived, and was suddeuiy dusky. 

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: Tbe quill-fcfithers make excel- 
If Qt writing-pensy are very strong 
m4 elastic, Viiul last long. 

lo bard winters tbe raven comes 
nearer tbe towns tban usual for 
such a shy bird ; then be is fre* 
t|iiently seep by tbe shores^ and 
even within a stQue*s-tbrow of the 
l^ouses of Stromne^s^ picking up 
M'bat garbage^ &c. be can find, 
but retires fruni us at tbe return of 
Sf^riug, and iietakes himself to tbe 
}iirectpices of tbe hills and rocks, 
aiid sometimes to tbe steeples of 
tlie churches, or any ruit^d build- 
ifig, and there be makes bis sum ' 
mer*s retreat, levying contributions 
on all around ; far froui so gener- 
ous in this respect as our couu try- 
folks say of the eagle, who, (they 
tell us) takes but a hen from every 
house of tbe parish, and none from 
those in the neighbourhood of bid 
iQval nest. 

Ravens have been sometimes 
seen white, and though this is but 
seldom the case, I have heard of 
two or three examples, both in 
these and rooks, though not all in 
CJrkney : of tbe latter it was im- 
possible, as they are seldom, if ever^ 
9«en here. 



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THE STARE. 

. This is a harmless, prattling, 
piimic bird, found in thousands in 
the Orkneys j breeds in old houses, 
churches, tbe sea-rocks, &c. 5 
$eems to be a favourite in Orkney, 
as few houses are built but they 
leave several holes in the wall for 
its convenience, of which it always, 
as if sensible of tbe favour, avails 
itself, and repays it with a song, 
und a deal of its antic mimicry. 

I have often been much diverted 
to bear a con pie of cock stares, 
perched upon two opposite cbim« 
neys, tryiag to e&cel one another 



in imitating all the noises below, 
tbe crowing pf cocks, cackle of 
l>ens, barking of dogs, mewing of 
cats, particular notes of different : 
wild birds; all this intermixed 
with its own natural harsh discor^ 
dant squeak} insomuch, that » 
macaroni from every nation in Eiii- 
rope, placed together to dispute 
concerning some inipoi*tant altera- 
tion to be made on a button -hoiev' 
or the best method of scenting & 
bouijuet, could not make a more 
dissonant jangle than these birds^ 
when in tbe humour of mimicry.' 

Tbe stare feeds on worms and in- 
sects, and in wiuter, when theeartb^ 
is locked up with frost, comet 
down to the sea side, where it live* 
on the sea-louse, (as it is here 
calleii)^ insinuating the point of 
its bill under thestones, and hastily 
opening it, jerks the stone over, 
immediately seizing what may be 
underneath. 

The flesh of the stare is very 
bitter, but this may in some mea* 
sure be remedied, by wringing off 
the head of tbe bird immediately* 
as caught, that the bloody in which 
the bad taste is, may run from it. 
Young stares are tolerable eating. 

This bird is well known, and «t 
well described in Mr. Pennant'f 
British Zoology, a book in so many 
hands, as to render a particular 
description here unnecessary, only^ 
I shall observe, that tbe youn^ 
birds do not acquire their perfect 
colours for tbe first year, but arc 
of an uniform dusky brown, with 
a yellowish stripe running from the 
lower jaw down to tbe breast; 
and, besides, may be known by 
their particular note. I have 
heard of one example of a stare, 
in the nest of which there were 
four young, two of which were 
black, the others grey, and grevr 
whiter as they grew older. 

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I imtgiiie stares breed twice a- 
yptir, as the first brOQc) has left the 
liest W0W io June, aud I have oh"* 
Sfrveri them very busy in repairing 
their Rest8> ami rearing another in 
August. ^ 



TnS SEA-FIB. 

. T01S b>r<i is found on our rocky 
cOMt9, where it lives ou Ihe lini*. 
]ietj and otbei' shell- fish. It con- 
tinues with us the whole year^ and 
l;ui)d» here. 

The bill is most excellently con- 
trstofi to proems its living ; it is 
1^1^ strong* and compressed side- 
y^}»8^ so that it it finds a limpet 
but f& Uttie way from the rock^ it 
easily ifisinuates .its bill between 
tbe iheil and the rock» aiwi brings 
it oS in a moment. If the limpet 
iStOD it9 guaid> and more firmly 
lusten^dy it knocks it ofi as dexr 
trously as any fisherman when he 
wau(s;i,t to bait his line. 
. It is sometimes eaten, hut the 
fesb 19 very mild, has much the 
ifKite of liiopets, its food, which 
ipakea it not much sought aftej*. 

The colours of this bird, though 
few, ar^ good, and their mixture 
producers a good effect. The head, 
ym^k, haik, and part of the coverts 
are a^n<^ full blacki in soma birds 
(eockef I siif)pose), with a cast of 
gf een ; the edges of the eyelids, aud 
tlifl irides, are a tine red ; part uf 
the breast, the belly, and the rump, 
are white; the lower part of tiie 
tiiil is white, and ihe up|*er black. 
The quilUteathers are curiously 
niHvked with white fn»m the thiee 
outurinoat, where it prevails least, 
hut gradually encroaching, seiztss 
the whole of the inuemK).>t ; the 
legs and feet are fteih-cohnu'ed, 
Kather clnmsily made; the toee 
broad, and Ihe outermost of these 
connected by ameoabraae^ whicb 



is of exceUest use to hinder tb'sse 
birds from sinking into the sandi* 
the claws are dusky, short, and 
seemingly much worn by continuiU 
ly scrambling about the rocks in* 
search of its linipet food. 

The sea* pie is at very little pains - 
about its oest^ a hollow of the 
next rock, or between two sloaes, 
with an artificial hollow scraped 
by itself, lined with a few bitt of 
grmss, or sometimes with ber own 
dung, serves the purpose. On this,, 
or often on the bare rock, she lays 
four eggs, of .as olive colotu;, spat- 
ted with dai:ker blotches of the 
same. 



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RISIKG AT A LEAP. 



nrO face this page, we present to 
our readers another J&tchiug of 
Mr. Howitt's, on the subject of 
Hunting, and trust €Mir friends 
will not consider it inferior to the 
former productions of this artist, 
given in the course of our Maga- 
zine. 

LAW CA&E.--4IUOOTINO POiNT« 

ERS. 

AT the late Northamptoti Assizes, 
an action was tried, James Ro- 
binsoQ, £sq. plaituiff, 1?. Lord LiU 
foni, defendant, whieh bad created 
considerable anxiety in tke sport- 
ing world, it WU6 br^uglit bytbe 
plaintift, who is a qualified nlen, 
against the Nohieliord, for sh€M>t« 
ing a brace of. pointers^ the proper- 
ty of the j)lHiBtiff, as they were re- 
turning from -chasing a hare;whtch 
had run into the defend«in4'8 estate/ 
The Noble Lord ^uftered judgment 
to go by detiAult, conaequently it 
was decided l)efore the Sbe<itf and 
his Jury, when a veixlict wtis giwn 
Hw the plaiutift af 801. «»d <^sts. 

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FE^ST OF WIT. 



npHE celebrated Foote, in the 
early part of his dramatic life, 
being in the West, his native coun- 
try, was invited to dinner, at the 
ho«ise of an opulent and most hos- 



At the late delivery of the Con* 
stables* Lists for the Militia, thd 
following curious and extraordi- 
nary return was made in the parish 
ofSedgley, in Staffordshire: — Jo^ 



pitable fwmer. In the discourse seph Fellows, aged 70: number o£ 

over the bottle. Master Jacky, a children by the first wife, ten — bf 

pert, forward, spoilt child, parti- second, tJiirteen — by the third, 

cularly noticed tlie words literary four — by the fourth, four— aud 

men, used by Foote, and desired. Jack in the hox'^ 
with much importunity, to know ^ 

ivhat literary men were. '« My , ^ ». ^ 

dear boy," replied Foote, « thej . I/scmiFTiON- on a tomb-rtoi* 

are so called/ because they have '° ^Z'f°^' Kentucky, over Aq,. 

ES " "''"^ cue to li/ upon ^f XXtTJ^ '"^ 

. Tho' lowly here beneath a sod I lie, 

T ^ 1. « . ^. . Know, reader, once I march'd above the 

^ Jenkins, a tall Sank Clerk, sky-- 

near seven feet high, who died a Sky bom, Sky->tBught, Sky-iinrtvii'd, la^. 
i^w years ago, happening to be in Sky-bred, 

a crowd at a fire, trod upon the P" ^^^ ^ trampled, and on Sky I fed. 

^^. ^r i.^.i 1.* Ixion, as the poets Sing aloud, 

tots of a little man standing near v^ alk'd through the sky and kfesM a fe- 
him, who writhing with the pain, male cloud; 

did not scruple to abuse him in 'i^hey lie! Were 1 alive^ I'd make it 

pretty loud terras, for his weight ^, ^, Soodr-- 

and clumsiness. Jenkins, how- The Sky Wd^^^^^^ 

ever, instead of making an excuse oh ! were we now beneath the reign ^ 
for what he had done, contented Jove, 

liimself with merely replying, Juno or Pallas, or the Ctueen of Love, 

" WhaVi that nme 1 /tear be- Some pow'r who from the Sky deriv'4 

nis birth, 
Would raise his brother fiom this Yankee 
. earth! 



LOW r 



Thb following is a literal copy 
of a note sent to the Clerk of a 
parish church in Gloucester:'— 
** Mister ray wief is ded, and wants 
to be berrid, dig a griefe for her, 
and she shall cum and be berrid to 
morrer at wonner clock. You 
knows where to dig it, close Ly my 
.other wife; but let it be dip." 



St. David's Day.— The follow- 
ing hoax is given in an early work, 
as entitled to credit :— 7A wit of 
Bath^ named Tom G. had a neiglv 
hour, who possessed a small bit of 
garden ground, and was very fond 
of amusing himself in it. On go* 
ingone afternoon Into bis garden, 

and 



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and seeing bis neighhour hastily 
employed in cultivating a patch 
with onion seed — ** What,'* said 
6. '* i tboiight thou Imdst known 
lietter than to sow onions on this 
(lay;— -tbou fool of a fellow j — 
dost recollect it*s the first of March, 
St. David*6 day, and that all onion^ 
peed sown on that day will produce 
leeks r ' Oh! Master G. that's 
only a hit of your fun.* ** My 
fun! why I thought every child 
knew it J and Til bet thee a le^; of 
mutton and trimmings that thou 
fias*n*ta single owuwi there — theyMl 
be all turned into Ueks /" — ^The bet 
■was mutually agreed to. G. being 
a much earlier riser than his neigh- 
bour, bad, before thfe latter made 
ftfis appearance the next mommg, 
temored every particle of mould, 
iRrbere the onions had been sown, 
Into his own garden ; a quantity 
€f leek-sieed being substituted, and 
.the ground nicely raked and dressed 
again, the man had not the slight- 
^t idea of deception ; but, in dne 
time, to bis astonishment, leeks 
made their appearance ! G. now 
jreminded bim of bis wager, to the 
payment of which the other assent- 
ed ; and they, with a few friemis, 
Jiappily partook of the produce of 
it at the old Cross Keys j the man 
ffttnly believing that this transmu- 
iation was entirely owing to the 
cause which G. had assigned, and 
swearing that in future he should 
jremeoiber the 1st of March and 
that cunning magician, St. David, 
who bad thus turned a bed of 
onions into a bed of leeks. 



room with tWo beds in it, bnt la^ 
one of them lay a woman, and if 
be (the traveller), would promise 
upon his honour not to speak to 
the lady, he might sleep in the un- 
occupied beil -y a solemn proinis* 
was given, and ibe traveller re- 
paired to bed. But in tbe course 
of the night, be couH not refrain 
from thinking of tbe woman and 
speaking — first it was " Madam," 
in a low tone of voice — next, 
" Madam," a little londer — and 
^t last, " Madam," still louder.— 
At length receiving no answer, 
he concluded, that *' silence gave 
consent j" and he went to the lady's 
bed, where, to his great mortifica- 
tion, he found therein a dead wo* 
man. Coming down in the raoru- 
ing, he began to upbraid his best 
for putting bim in a room with a 
dead woman. " Had you kept 
your ^vord with me," replied the 
latHilord, *' you would not have 
known whether tlie woman bad 
been dead or alive ; if you feel 
yourself aggrieved, you have to 
thank yourself, and deserve tbe 
usage you liave met with, by tbe 
violatioB of your promise." 



A TBAyELLER conuug late to an 
Inn, and tlie beds all full, suppli- 
cated the landlord to find him some 
place of rest. After much hesita- 
tion, the latter to]d bim be had pi 



A RESPECTABT.F. auctioneer, who 
had for a few weeks been engaged 
in selling linen-drapery goods, on 
a Saturday evening, lately ran 
from the rostrum to make bis mar- 
ket. His mind being still jno^ 
fessionaVy engaged, he enquire<l 
of a butcher, (whose meat hap- 
j)ened to be very thin), " what 
do yon ask a yard for your beef?" 
Cleaver Answered, ** that he al- 
ways sold the meat by the pound." 
** I ask pardon," replied the 
Knight of tlie Hammer, " but 
I really took your beef for mus' 

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SPORTIJVG IJVTME.EilGMJ^'CE. 



XJIS Majesty's Harriers have 
• been porch assd by R. W. Wal- 
k&, fis<i. o£ I^uuUmliii, in^ar Worth* 
ing, Sussex. 

PrxcHirKY Hunt R4QS8.*«-A 
Cup value 50gs. for hunt#r«> the 
beit of three heat8> twice round 
the 'Coarse^ I38t. eacb> rode by 
far ciders. 

Mr. W. Manning's br. mare^ 
aged 2 1 1 

Mr. S. PelPs br. g 1 2 2 

Mr. Sharman's ch. g. Aspa- 
ragus> aged S 4 3 

Mr. R: BarFs br. g 4 3 4 

Mr. T. Stanton's b. g. Tally- 
ho !. dist. 

Mr* J. AspinaVs ch. g dist. 

Mr: Odeirs b. g. Hapba- 
afard . / dfet. 

BartoN'Cpon-Httmbsk Racs^, 
— Tuesday, March 23.— The Ma- 
caroni Stakes of lOgs. each, for 
hunters. — Two-mile heats. 

Mr. T. Sykes's ch. m. by 
* Stamford (owner) .... 1 1 

Mr. J. Grant's ch. g. Bene- 
dict, '4 yrs old 2 2 

Mr. T. Grant's ch. g. Merry- 
Lad 3 dis 

Mr. G. Pelham's h. h. Little 
John 4 dis 

Sweepstakes of dgs. each, for 
horses not thorough bred.— « 
^entlecnen riders. — ^Two-mile 
heats. 

Mr. Hamew*sb. m. Spinning 
Jenny * . .- 1 I 

Mr. J. Grant's ch. g. Bene- 

• diet, 4 yrs old 4 H 

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Mr. T. Grant*s ch. g. Merry- 
Lad 2 a 

Mr. G. Fclham's ch. g. 3 4 

Mr. £. Holgate's b. m. . . . • 6 dr. 

A N£w race-course has been 
j^nned out and nearly .finished* 
at Nottingham, under the iuspec* 
tioo of many noblemen and gen* 
tlemen in that neighbourhood. 

A SFRBAD-£A6L]iE.— On S{ttur« 
day, the 20th instant, was decided 
a sporting wager, between aix gen* 
tlemen, (three being chosen oa 
each side) who should be nearest 
to Sir M. M. Sykes's fox-hounds. 
A great deal of money was betted 
on the occasion, and a very great 
interest natundiy excited. The 
Hon. Mr. Hawke, Mr. Treacher* 
and Captain SmiUi, of the 10th 
Hussars, were on the one parly ^ 
and Mr. Lloyd, of York, Mk 
Stanley, ' brother of Sir Thomai 
Stanley, and Mr« Bliindell, of Lan* 
cashire, on the other. The laitter 
tnLo considerably the favourites at 
starting. The bounds found ill 
iSuet Carr, and went away in their 
usual most excellent and rapid nwn« 
ner, running a burst as severe iand 
as^kHllng for the pace, (and over 
the deepest and strongestinclosed 
country in Yorkshire), as was ever 
known by the oldest huntsman—* 
passing an extent of five miles of 
country in a twenty minutes buni, 
and after that going a steady rat* 
ing pace for another half boun 
The gentlemen named above came 
in as follows :-— Mr. Treacher* on 
Old Nick, first; Hon. Mr. Hawkcw 

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•n Lord of the Valley, second ; turned oat that she was twutig of 

Captain Smith, on Jerry Sneak, strained in the back, and the plea 

third } Mr. Stanley, on Neck-or- which her owner set up in defence 

Nothing, fourth ; Mr* BlundelU when challenged for bis imposiiiou 

on Rolla, fifth; and Mr. Lloyd, was, that the 6aei(( was not a ii}n6 / 

on the York Dandy, sixth, it is The mare was returned, but the 

needless to add, that the wager plaintiff having refused to receive 

was won by the three first^named her, she was impounded and sold 

gentlemen. What is remarkable, for 161. l6s.— The Jury gave a 

Captain • SoHth met with a severe verdict for plaintiff^ subject to 

faH act his -second fence, and Mr, award. 

Hawke rode after and caught his ■ 

borse, brought him back, and then A vatal accident hAppened last 

made up his ground in tb.e burst, month to Ferdinand Bullock, £sq« 

though he rides above 14st. — Sir of Wantage, Berks :<-^He had been 

M. M. Sykes's hounds have had out fox-hunting, and dined with a 

uncommon sport throughout the party, but on bis return home, he 

season, and go at such a pace, that by some means got from off his 

nothing but very fast horses can horse into a ditch, and was found 

live with them 3 indeed we need in the morning dead^ standing up* 

not be surprised at their excellence, right in the water. This is the 

when we recollect that they are sanie gentleman who some time 

hunted by that most excellent since broke his thigh at Stock* 

sportsman and beautiful Ivorsemnn, bridge Races. 

WiUiam Carter — ^and long may be 

live to enjoy their *^xceiience, ex- A few nights ago, as Thomas 

claims every one who bnnts with Johnson, a labouring man, of 

^m. North Chapel, Sussex, was out 

■■ ■ ■ ■ shooting pheasants^ in Michel 

- At the late Lonth Course Park, behinginf to the Barl of 

^eting^ Mr. Adam Bve made a Egremont, bis gun burst, and shat- 

bet of 50gs. p. p. that bis grey tered his hand so dreadfully, that 

mare should go thirty- foitr miles in he died shortly after from the loss 

two successive hours $ and we un* of blood. Let this be a warning 

derstand it is to be determined ovet to poaobers* 

Doncaster race course in April ■ 

'^ ^ CocKmd. — The main of cocks 

At th^ Lincoln Assizes, an ac- fought at the Close Pit, in Su 

tion was brought (Bond plaintiff*, John-street, Chester, between the 

Orice defendant) to recover the geutlemen of Cheshire and Slirop- 

price of a horse originally belong* shire, was won hy the former, six 

Ing to the plaintiff. The patties mains out of ten — the byes even. 

«re farmers at Hohon le Clay, A cock-fight took pkce thit 

mbo, on their way to Louth, on month, at Heufieki, between Sus- 

the 18th of last April, after some sex and Kent, which lasted four 

chaffering and jockeyship, bar- days, and terminated in favour of 

gained to swap horses, each war- the latter. 

ranting his beast as sound. The ' ■ , 

ptuintiff warranted his mare as A Pioxoir-MATCH took place, on 

a»cukd in vrind and Umb, hut it Monday, the 1st instant, oa Hel- 

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$toi) Common^ between Mr, King* 
a good shot, and Smarts a keeper, 
for 25 guineas a-side, at 21 )^irdft« 
Mr. King kiiied IB, and hisadver** 
fary 17, 

A suBSCBiPTiosr pigeon match 
cook place on Midgbam Common, 
Bucks, on the 1 5th Inst, ten guineas 
each, half forfeit. Ten gentle- 
men shot at eleven birds each. The 
three best shots were Messrs. 
Keene, Gilbert, and Croft, who 
killing all their birds, they shot off 
their tieb, and Mr. Keene won. 



Thursday, the 18th instant, a 
trotting match took place at £c« 
vies, between Mr. Mapes's noted 
mare Brown Bags, and Mr. Ma« 
plestone*s bay mare Frisky, which 
was won by the former. They 
trotted ten miles on the Lowestoft 
road, and performed it with ease 
in foity-four minutes, Mr. Mapes*s 
mare carrying 13 stone. 

On Friday morning, the 26tl) 
ult. a long-pending trotting match 
between a black mare belonging to 
Mr. Crisp, of Stow, near Down* 
ham Market, Suftblk, and a bay 
mare, the property of Mr. Brett, of 
Fordbam, near Hilgay, took place 
on the turnpike-road from the 
Chequer Inn, Downbara, to the 
Toll-bar at Fincham. This match 
was for twenty pounds a-side, and 
was won by the former, distancing 
the bay mare upwards of a fur- 
long, the latter having broke ele- 
ven times during the performance 
pf her jouiTfiey* The black mare 
(which on the day of tbe match 
was rode by Mr. Abraham Spinks, 
of Magdalen) trotted over the 
ground, on the Wednesday pro- 
ceeding, in seventeen mn^utes. 



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an Oxfordshire farmer,, started on 
Monday, the 1st instant, to per* 
form sixty, miles a day, for si^ 
successive days, or rather three 
hundred and sixty miles in the six 
days. On . the first day he per* 
formed sixty-four miles, with six 
hours res^; second day, sixty- 
five miles, with six hours rest j 
third day, sixtVTseven miles, with 
five hours rest. Of the fourth an4 
fifth days we have no particulars $ 
but be completed his task at eleven 
o'clock on the Saturday night, six 
miles from* Basingstoke, Hants. 
He rose each day about four iii 
the morning, and travelled at tlie 
rate of something more than fouir 
miles an hour. His legs inclined 
to swell on the third Jay. At the 
finishing of the undertaking be 
was reduced two stone, his legs 
much swollen, and ahogetlier in « 
.deplorable state. Nothing. l)ut der 
■tcji'mined resolution could have en- 
abled him to win the. match. He 
.was not expected to proceed after 
the Friday,, and was sixteen hours 
doing forty-seven miles the last day* 

On Thursday > the 4th instant, 
Mr. Jameson performed a task of 
one mile and a. half in seven mi- 
nutes, on ^Iie. Kilburn road. The 
match vyjis for twepty guineaa. At 
starting! bets were; two to one a^ 
gainst the.peifo^mapce. 

SatMrd.ay, tt^e 13tb instant, at 
twelve o'clock in the mornipg^ 
Henry Hammp.nd, of Lilley-lane« 
near Huddersfield, Yprkshire,start- 
ed fbr a wager of twenty guineas, 
to go eighty miles in eighteen 
hours. He performed the distance 
in seventeen hours and a quarter, 
with apparent ease-t— so much that 
be challenged any man on the 
ground to go twenty miles more 
for twenty guineas immediately, 
hut no one ventured to accept the 
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Alice die more remarkftbie is, that tb6 Igtb instaot, in the Fountaft 
it was undertaken witliout any pre- Jnn yard, Chichester, for what h 
yious training or preparation what- technically termed Love and a 
ever, ^r J. L. Kaye, near whose -BM^-fiUl.' The competitors were 
•eat the road lies, paid every atten- Wheeler, of Sidlesbani, and Mo- 
tion to the pedestrian daring his lington, a/ioi the MuflF, of Lava nt. 
arduous performance. The Muff won. This match has 
A coachman, of the name of created a subscription for a hat 
Young, undertook on Tuesday, the and purse at Groodwood, which, as 
23d instant, for a wager of forty the play has declined at Botley, 
guineas, to go from Westminster will probably induce the players of 
to Teddington, Middlesex, and re- the Western Counties to try their 
turn, the whole being twenty-two skill in this quarter. The sub- 
miles, in three hours. He per- scriptions will, apparently, be 
formed eight miles in the first hour, worth travelling for. 
ftnd fourteen within the next two ' ■ 
bours, and won the match with Pugilism. — Molinenx the black, 
great ease. and Carter, who was beat by Fow- 
On Thursday, the 25th instant, er, at Rickmans worth, were- 
the celebrated Lancashire pedes- matched to fight on the 2d of 
trian, Abraham Wood, ran the April, within twenty miles of Ox- 
distance of nine miles and a half, ford, in a twenty-feet ring, for 
over Knayesmire, York, in fifty- 100 guineas ; but the match is off, 
four minutes forty-five seconds, to the no small disappointment of 
which was five minutes fifteen se- thousands, the Black having been 
conds within the time he under- arrestedby Richmond, for 1501. 
took for a wager of thirty guineas, . A battle between Jay and Ful- 
tu run the distance. The follow- ler will take place Tuesday, the 
ing is a correct statement of the 6th of April, within 20 miles of 
time he was running each mile : — ' LomloUc* Jay won the last battle. 

Mm. See. ' and is the favourite. 

1st mile 5 7 A boxing match, for twenty- 

2d dftto 5 21 five guineas and a purse often 

3d ditto 5 80 pounds, took place on Monday the 

4th ditto 5...4..30 Ist instant, on Hatfield Common, 

5th ditto 5 32 Hants, between George Cranstone, 

6(h ditto ..,.,. 5 44 a descendant of Slack, and Roger 

'7th ditto 6 35 Whitfield, a sort of teacher of 

8th ditto 5. ...... 16 science, and a formidable boxer, 

9th ditto 6 O who was backed by Captain Hans- 

^ ditto 4 9 The latter gave a stone, but was 

still the favourite. Whitfield 

54 45 shewed off aboirt the head of his 

At starting, betting was six to antagonist in the first round, by 

four in favour of Wood, and when hitting and breaking with great 

be had run six miles it was six to skill, and he at length knocked bis 

one on him. formidable adversary down, after 

■ four minuses fighting. The sujw- 

A HATCH of back-sword, or sin- riority was maintained by Whit- 

gl&*stick, was played on IVklay,/ field's scienc^e about half an hour, 

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iHit he bad received some loangiDg 
' hies too forcible to be parried. He 
at length fell i>i\ from fatigue, 
aiKl the time arrived^ when weight 
more than overbalanced science, 
and some desperate rallying took 
place. Cranstone now gained an 
ascendancy, which Whitfield could 
not arrest. The former bored in, 
and used both hands with gi*eat ef- 
fect, and after fifty minntes bard 
fighting, victory was declared in 
his favour, by planting a blow, on 
the side of Whitfield's bead, wbich 
stunned him for several minutes, 
and thus/e^Z the glory of one who 
had subdued — not the continetU — 
but the county in wbich he lived. 

Power had a benefit at the Fives 
Court, St. Martin's-lane, Wednes- 
day^ the 17th instant, in comme- 
moration of his victory at Rick- 
inans worth, which was attended 
by most of the amateurs in lion* 
don, and migbt be termed a bum- 
per. There was some very good 
setting-to betwixt Crib, the cham- 
pion, and Carter, the former of 
whom exbibited on this occasion 
to make up for the Ipss of Power, 
who was too ill to ^par. There 
was also a good match betwixt 
Hichman and Carter, and in both 
much science was displayed. Ford 
also gave strong specimens of im- 
provement in a seMo with Har- 
mer, and amongst others de^rv- 
iog notice, was the match betwixt 
i>am and Cropley. Fuller and Jay 
also exhibited. 

A very hard battle of sixty-five 
rounds, wbich lasted one hour and 
a qharter, took place on Monday, 
the 8th instant, in Crendon Mea- 
dow, Oxon, between Thomas 
Jones, of Thame, and Thomas 
•£lms, of Shabington, f<sr a pound 
note (a sum of importance to both 
parties), and both being good bot- 
tom, neither would. yield till the 



spectators insisted on their being 
separated, as bets were even front 
the beginning to the end. — Jones 
was nmch smaller, but displayed 
science adequate to his adversary's 
hard blows. 

A pitched battle took place om 
Wednesday morning, the 3d in- 
stant, in Harper's-fields, betweeu 
Bo I) Redhead, of bruising cele*" 
brity, and — — Hall, a waggonei^ 
of Feversham. They set to at se- 
ven o'clock, with determined, reso- 
lution, and fought for forty m^i- 
nutes. Both combatants were 
shockingly lacerated about tlw 
face, and the latter was nearlf 
blinded of bis right eye, besidi^ 
sufiering very considerably from 
body blows. The former came off 
victor. 

A severe pitchetl battle .was 
fought on Malton Range, Hert- 
fordshire, on Tuesdajr, the 2d in- 
stant, for a stake of twenty gui- 
neas, betwixt Thomas Hanco,rk^ 
a navigator, and Benjamin Barnes, 
a young farmer, and a sort 0/ ter- 
ror in the neighbourhood. The 
navigator was a descendant of the 
Kingswood breed, which has pro- 
duced so many British champions, 
and was a natural good fighter of 
twelve stone, and possessed much 
courage and hardihood. Barnes, 
by practice, bad acquired a portion 
of science sufficient to stop and 
return upon many heavy hits, and 
this superiority gave him the lead 
in the former part of the battle. — 
Much injuiy was sustained by both 
in the second round, and at the end 
of the eighth the four eyes were 
closed. In this situation they con- 
tinued the battle with increased 
obstinacy, if possible; the lanoe 
haviug been applie<l, and together 
with being cut by the fist, they 
obtained temporary sight. The 

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liour^ snd both went down tog^ it migbt please. Mr. l)awe hm 

tber from fatigue in tbe latter publicly and privately expi^ssed 

part of tbe combat. At the saf^* bis wtsb to accomaiodate any 

gestion of the backers tbe battle sporting gentleman {for be consi* 

was drawn, to be decided on a fu- ders every man a sportsman) with 

ture day^ as tbe men were alike the propagation of this eanine 

heat, and being so much exhaust- wonder ! Malevolence, ever on the 

ed, itwasaneventhingat tbe^fratr. watch! lurking in the breast of 

Thirty ponods was divided betwixt tbe niggard, to whom a few peace 

the combatants 5 and the battle ts of more value than sterling wit, 

will be renewed for a great stake, or bone»t ambition, shrinks At tbe 

m ■ sound of POSTAGE I L#et such be- 

TifEEB is DOW living in the pa- think bin» of his sordid pelf,, and 

yish of Tresham, near Chudleigh, scoul at Cesar*s Uurels ^ for C«- 

ai lamb, about three weeks old, sar has some laurels ( but Cesar 

Mtckled from tbe day of its birth nor cares for him, nor sncb as are 

by a sheep-dog bitch. Tbe ewe belike bim. — Whoever this cap fits, 

having died, tbe owner brought may wear it ! — ^Let. the galled jade 

home the lamb, with an intention wince, our withers are unwrung ! t 

tm have it reared by hand ; this — Sherborne Journal, 

trouble was saved through tbe ■■ ' ■ ■ ■ 

spontaneous off^r of the bitch, AsMr. Good, a resfiectable far*, 

whose litter had that morning been mer, was looking ki hia fields for i^ 

ikstroyed. It is a firm, thriving hare, at Berwick St. Janies^ near- 

^oib, and follows its nurse as its Sarum, he saw an. owl flying very 

Mother, ' low, at a distaiKe. The grey* 

-■ hounds seeing it, followed, and af- 

7*9 the Sparing Wwld ! — Mr. ter running a great way, ami often 

Dawe, of Dorchester^ in the conn- jumping at tbe bird, poor Peter 

ty of Dorset, has for nearly five was caught by (be taloas^. aad 

years pa»t been in possession of a pulled to the earth. « 

real Newfomullander, tvhose ^s- * 

toni^hing powers in the watery ele^ A curious trial took place oa 

isent are alUnved by connoisseurs Friday, tbe 26tb ult. in the Court 

to aluTost surpass belief, and beg- oi King's Bench, Dublin, respect- 

g»^^r alt de^eriptiott. During a late ing a pointer dog, in which tbe 

wit at Exeter, an elegant couplet Rev. Mr. Baker was pkintift', and 

fd verses, composed by no con^ Mr. Eustace, poy deck of the 

temptible hand (on seeing the won- works at Howth, defendant. The 

derful dexterity and resolution of witnesses on the part of tbe plaiu- 

ihe dog Caesar in tbe caijal), bji- tiff, were Captain Shanley, the 

peared in print : Mr. Dawe has Rev. Thomas Baker, hrother-iin- 

bcen induced 4 from a motive as law of the plaint iff, and Pat. Do- 

mueh W. gratify the curiosity of Ian, formerly servant of the plain- 

his s^iorti»g friends as to pay a tiff, all of whom proved tbe iden- 

fwrtrrbuteto the abilities of his tity of the dog, who, as fAirther 

dog, conceiving that this TVi^e is evidence, was produced on the ta* 

wot les9 trve because poetical, to ble, to tbe great merriment of the 

get them printed and generally cir^ Court, who were convulsed with 

calated> under an ifflpressioa that laughter at this unusual witness.'! 

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tcstivoii^. On tbe part of th« de- 
ijgndant, Mr. John Grace, of the* 
Queeu's County, Mr. Benjamin 
I>ariey, and Mr. Macphersou, of 
ijlbbey-street^ were produced.-*-The 
Jury, without retiring from the 
Vqx, gave a verdict for the plain- 
tiff-'— Damages 30l. and 6d. costs. 

• DtrBENO tbe tail of snow at 
Martinmas last, many persons, on 
Cbe heights of Middlehie and Tun- 
dergartli> ^Rd along the upper 
heights of Langholm and Wester- 
klrk, observed the tracks of two 
ftniipais, supposed to be foxes, 
which. the good people of Middle- 
Lie charged with the loss of their 
poultry, as few nights passed with- 
out- sltme of them disappearing. 
Some; days ago, however, a person 
pasjjva^ betwixt Westw^ter and 
CruJve, came upon the tracks, dif- 
ieritig only in size^ the largest of 
which he followed, Mntil ht came 
to the snouth of a hole, jvhich be 
supposed to be th^ rolxber.'s retreat. 
Contented with his discovery^ be 
returned home, and next morning 
himself and another person pro- 
€eeded to tbe spot, and having got 
the asaissance of several others. 
With fowling pieces and dogs, they 
commenced digging up a drain, 
where the object of their pursuit 
bad concealed himself. Here the 
gentleman showed them his ugly 
face, and was fired upon, but with- 
out, efiect. A shepherd present 
put. in his dog, wbjch caused tbe 
animal immediately to spring from 
hds hole, when,. to the great asto- 
Bisfament of the beholders, be prov- 
ed to be a wild cat, of a most ex* 
traordinary . size. . The following 
are the dimensions : — from the tail 
to the tip of the nose> three feet 
sine inches ; tail, twelve inches ; 
circumference at the shoulders, 
twelve Inches; circumference at 



the head, fourteen Inchet ; and o^ 

the tally four inches and a quarter^ 
colour a dark grey, with black 
stripes. — (Greenock Advertiser.) 

Travelling on the frontiers of 
Gallicia and Hungary has this 
winter been very dangerous, in 
consequence of the numerous 
bands of wolves with which they 
were intested. From th« great 
increase of these ravenous aaimak» 
in tbe above coiintries, they ar^ 
su|) posed to have come from Po^* 
laud and Russia, where the war 
and the report of cannon had made 
them take flight. To destroy them^ 
general huntix^ matches have beeov 
appointed. 

About three months Bgo» • 
horse, rising three years old, the 
property of Mr. Alexander Gutb« 
rie, in Fiudowrie, near Brechin^ 
Scotland, received a hurt whicii 
ultimately shut up tbe urinary pas<* 
sage. C. Black, farrier in Brechiii|| 
being called in, made several gt« 
tempts, in the ordinary way, ta 
get the stoppage removed^ all of 
which proved ineffectual. From 
the certainty that the horse coiiUI 
not survive long, unless immedi* 
ate relief was procured, he resolved 
to make an incision into the ure« 
tha; this was accordingly done« 
externally about three inches long« 
commencing immediately beloiv 
the funilaroent, and cut into the 
urethra close to the neck of the 
bladder. The operation had not. 
been performed above two mi^ 
nutes, when the animal discharged 
an immense quantity of urine by 
the artificial passage, and begaa 
to eat, neither of which it hac^ 
done for several days. The pas« 
sage is perfectly open, and now 
whole on both sides ; the animal 
continues to discharge its urine re- 

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gulftrly, 18 jwrfectly well in ereiy printed on tbcir minds by tbeir 

tespeet, and tbriving at well a9 great Creator, it is witb no small 

any in the country. degree of mortification we reicct,- 

■ tbat after all our pains and enqui-* 

MiGRATioif OP Swallows.-— ries, we are not yet quite certaiR 

Swallows have been seen so late as to what regions they do migrate,- 

the:* latter end of October 5 and and are still further embaiTasae<^ to 

indeed some assert that they' have find that some actually da not mi-- 

been seen till n^ar Christmas. Mr. grate at all.'* 

White, in his Natural History of " Amurfve birds! tay where your hid re* 

Selbome, mentions bjiving seen a « whe^Sifrort rages, and the tempest 

aouse martin nytng about in No* beat; 

tember, long after the general mi- ** Whence your return, by such nkeiii- 

gration had taken place. Many ^ wh^^X', 'weet season, lifts her 

more instances might be given of bloomy head .' 

web late appearances, which, ad- " Such baffled searches mock man's pry-^ 

ded tt) the weil-authenlicated ac- .. The*°Jo^D"1,V Nature U your secret 

•ounts ef swallows having been guide" 

actually found in a torpid state, ■ 

leaves us no room to doubt, that Lord Mcntfort and Cohmel .De* 

inch yoUng birds as were hatched lap, — ^The intended duel between 

late, and consequently not strong these two gentlemen, we noticed 

enough to undertake a long yoy-< in our last Number, and likewise 

^;e to tbe coast of Africa, are left a letter from Captain Spicer, Co- 

behind, and remain concealed in lonel Delap^s second, stating 8om« 

biding plajces till the return ef of the drecnnstances which at- 

afring: on tbe other hand, tbat tended the affieiir. Several letters 

actual migrations of the swallow have since pasted between Sir 

tribe do take place, has been fully George Jackson, the other second, 

proved .from a variety of well-at-' and Captain Spicer, with the view 

Hsttd facts, most oi which are of ascertaining by wbose inter* 

taken from the observations of lia- ference the meeting was prevent^ 

▼igato!*s who were eye-witnesses of ed j both parties on that bead de- 

tbe fiights, and whose ships have dare themiselves perfectly igno- 

aometinies aftbrded a resting place rant. The original misunderstands 

lo the weary travellers. But, after ing between Loixl Moatfort and 

all our inquiries into this branch of Colonel Delap arose from an ex- 

Batural economy, much yet remains pression used by tbe Noble Lord, 

to be known, and we may conclude in a letter to Captain Lyster, oiF 

in the words of the ingenious Mr. the 1st Surrey, and whiob charged 

White, *' that whilst we observe Colonel Delap with having jock" 

with delight witb bow much ar- ted his Lordship's nephew, Cap<* 

-dour and punctuality thote little tain Ch alienor, by contriving tbat 

birih obey the strong impulse to- Lysfer should have n seniority ia 

wards migration or hiding, im* bis commissioB over Cballenon 

TO CORRESPONDENTS # 

Wk must dedine the' insertion of the Poetic Favour of W. at befog unfit for our 
SfiKeUany. 

£laRATUM,— By an error of the Press, in the first pa^ of our last Number, Mat-> 
o'tU'-Mint was stated to be " sister** to Miss Coiner j the word " sister** i&oiildtukvfe 
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TEARS OP FITZ-ARTHUR. 
A Ballad. 

'T^HE sporting traia with joy 
•* begin 

To hail the rising mom. 
And foxwuld echoes to the din* 

Of httntsnian» hQund, end boro» 

With voice of fire, in eager haste 
Fitz-Arthur cheer'd his pack. 

Bow swift, how gallantly he past« 
Sublime on Nimiod's heck. 

Long, long, had Nimrod borne his lord. 

The foremost in the chase ; 
And many a sigh of anguish pour'd, 
. While others shar'd bis place. 

And now with more than usual speedy 

With more than usual fire, 
Heskimm'd each hill, each dale, and 

mead, 
* He clear'd each diomy briar. 

Still forward, still as reynard fled, 

Fitz-Arthur foremost came. 
While many a panting hunter bled. 

Along the field of fame. 

And hark ! the huntsman's louder peal 

Proclaims the sport is o'er ; 
Oh ! luckless sport ! oh ! fatal seal I 

For Nimrod lives no more. 

The breeze that heard the peal of death. 
That heard the game expire, 

Tliat breeze receiv'd the last, last breathy 
Of Nimrod's dying fire. 



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O say," (he cried) *< ere yet thy horse 
The debt of Nature pays, 
9ay, have I ran a duteous course. 
To gain Fitz-Arthui's ptaise ?" 
: VaJk, XLI.— No. 246. 



*' Oh ! thou hast done a hunter's part, 

Far, far, beyond thy race ; 
The pride, the glory of my heart. 

My honour in ^echase. 

" Long, Ntmxod, long thy sorrowing 
lord. 

Shall rue the lucliess day ; 
That cost a life so much ador'd, ] 

That cost my gallant grey. 

■* No other horse shall serve thy plaoe^ 

No other joys be sought ; 
Henceforth adieu to every chase. 

Adieu to every spon." 

N. L. TORRE. 

fTinchester Colligef 
March 5, 18)3. 



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POETICAL DESCRIPTION 

Qfa neu^andv^ amusing Oam^iffCtrdtt 
caUed " Thb Jaw." 

JnaLetUrfrom a GtiUUwan ^ Oaffhr^ 
to kiiSister in th§ Cknmtry, 

^ND now, my dear Mary, I beg to oon« 

elude. 
Oil no^I'd forgot, I'll one moment in* 

trude; 
For 1 know eoantry females €ui ncvct 

be tired 
Of things that are new, and in Osfbid 

admired. 
Hefe, of Loo many people were led to 

complain 
i;hat it wu to their podcels an absoltttr 

drain, 
Ao4 iQiny who cany their beads high as 

locketsy 

Hr Am 



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Are known, mj dear girl, to have vcty They must all pay alike teven fish to iki 

low pockets. Jew. 

I oontalted a friend, in this caie what 

to do, 
When he gravely said, Sir, the best |;am9 

is the Jew j 
I said it 'twas cards, theie were much 

better names. 
That I had an aversion to all Jewish 

garnet $ 
For Jews, my d^ Mary, Are odd kind 

of folks. 
And in money concerns very often play 

jokes, » 

He the game then explained, which he 

said was quite new, 
And as novelty's pleasing, I send it to 

you i 

You will doubtless conclude th^ it bor- 
ders on vice. 
For the game v dfiCidfiA by tbroiHnjS of 

dice. 
To prei^re for this g%me, yoifr attention's 
* directed 

To ten difiereiit cards for the purpose 

selected : 
These cards so selected, if rigl^t, i^ill 

be seen. 
To begin with the Tbree^ and ascend to 

the Queen ; 
From th^e ten you*!! obsetye, thou|;h 

\be number b^ few. 
You mu St take out the Seven and call it 

the Jew 9 
And in placing the carjl^ on the tabk you 

venture ' 

A circle to form with the Jew m the 

centre. 
Of ivory fishes you get a supply, 
Which at sixpence a dozen you s^U or 

you buy :' * 
You sit mend tUe table as quiet as mice. 
And little is heard but the rattle of dice. 
I wish to instruct you, and first you must 

learn 
That th^^ Ladies and Gemleraen throw 

in their turn : 

^9yL wpj^f ^ rtvrow. w» « »% «*iy to 

see 

to three. 
Jvftt the aapf wiOi the rest, tof as.rotmi} 

the dice go, " 
Ypa gmi, itt^ Ofi a c^^ tq the n^^)ber. ypu 

throw ; 

^ow tb^ wtQ^d i\v9fi round* *ti» "9: wish 

to explain, 

'^MS te. 9mj? nmnhcr.t^rown, hfiugi 
the nsh back aga^ : 

M^ W^,?fi throfifs MYsn, if nauy or 
few, 



TIs an odd observation, and not at aU 

new. 
To be rfeh in extreme is as rich as a Jew ) 
And we frequently throw for an hour or 

more. 
Therefore no one will say that our Jew 

can be poor ; 
And who shall be winner 'tis fortune to 

fix. 
All belongs to the peieoa who throws 

double six. 
Of the Jew, my dear girl, yoe have now 

a slight view, 
Which as we but just know it to you 

most be new ; 
And ID play it I really wiOi pkM01« ^^ 

vite yoo» 
As I have not a doubt but *twiU highly 

delight you. 
Then to forward liiy wishes and.y9Q tA 

entice, 
I send yott a box with a couple of dice. 
And allow me dear Maiy a wish to ex- 
press 
That your eflbris in life mny be crown'd 

with success. 
And as fortune has favourites though 

they are few 
While on numbers she frowns, may she 

smile upon you. 
Make ypu pfrf«ac% happy a^ad rkh ss ^ 

Jew. 



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SPRIGHTLY. 



\yHlLST other Bfrds attune (bpf 
lays 

To some okl ftvqur'd crony;, 
A dog, or cat, may I not praise. 

The,ilirt|ii» of my Poniqr i 

For sure, if merit claims a song. 
He ought to shine in mietre. 

And would the Muse inspire my tnogtf^ 
No ditty should be sweeter. 

If frifip<}ship1}c to share one's ifoe, 
Or mirth, that. «its ibore lightly, 
No map can boast a friend morctrvfe 
' Than I possess in <S^pEf^A(^. 

Ah ! mwny a time, both aooa arid tste^ 
Through foc\l and pleasant weather. 

We, such the urgent willof Atte, 
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And was I e*er to grieving prone, 
VHa^dtk wise men deem a ffoliy. 

He'd answer me with groan for groan» 
And seem <iiihe Aielancholy. 

A, if i happened to be gay, ^ 

His sympathy was ready^ 
And, as he pranc*d along the if^ff 

No curb could keep him steady. 

No malice harbours in his heart* 

Which is indeed a treasure, 
' More worth than gold, and, on my port, 
£steem'd beyond all measure. 

His beauty we'll pass lightly o'er. 

As what of little force is ; 
Or else you'd think him* to be sure* 

A Paragon of Horses ! 

Bat then for speed to none he'll yield>— 

Such bottom, he ne'er flinches ; 
dIUid, any odds, against the fidd 
. Vl\ match him— weight for inches : 

One fault he has, to speak the truth* 
' Tho* jockies thrive by cheating — 
One cursed fault !-~it is a naouth — 
A mouth* Sir !-»that loves eating ! 

Yet taking bimfor'allmaU. 

While this good frontlet's yellow* 
Or broken knees rise from a ikll* 

We ne'er shall see his fellow ! 



A WINTER'S DAY. 



ffriUen in a Slate of MeUmehofy, 

]|^OW* gloomy seal !-*-look otir— hk>w 

comes thy mm ; 
With thee heboid all nvag'd natufe 

mourn; 
Hail tlir 4im empire of thy darling 

night* 
That spreads slow-shading o'er the van- 

^uiah^d light. 
Look out with joy } the mler of the day 
J^aint* as thy hopes* emits a glimm'ring 

ray; 
Already exil'd to the utmost sky. 
Hither* oblique* be tom'd his douded 

eye. 
lo ! from the limits of the wintry pole* 
Mountainous clouds in rode oonfusioa 

roll ; 
fo dismal pomp* now hov'iiog oa dictr 

way. 



To a sick twilight they reduce the day. 
A^d hark! imprison'd winds* broke 

loose, arise. 
And roar their haughty triumph thro* tlMi 

skies, 
While the driv'n dpuds, o'eicharged 

with floods of rain. 
And mii>g)ed lightning* burst upon th* 

plain. 
Now see* sad torth— like thine her aher'd 

state, 
Z^tke thee she mourns her sad reverse of 

fate ! 
Hersroilc, her wanton loolca— wheie are < 

Ihcy now? 
Faded her 6ice, and wrapt in clouds her 

brow ! 

Ko niore th^ ungrateful verdure of the 

plain* ^ 
No more the wealth-crown'd labours of 

the swain ; 
These scenes of bliss no more upbMld 

my fate. 
Torture my pining thought, and rouse 

my bate ; 
The leaf-clad forest and the tufted gmvc^ 
Erewhile the safe retreats of happy love, 
Stripp'd of their honeuis* naked now 

appear; 
This IS— my soul! the winter of their 

year: 
The little noisy songsters of the wing. 
All shiv*r1ng on the bougti* forg^ to 

sing. 
Hall* rev'r^d Sil^Dce ; vKth' thy a#/bl 

. brow, 
Bb Musk's voicif for ever mute— as no#; 
Let nointrosive joy my dead repose 
Dbturb— 06 pleasure disconcdrt t6f 

woes. 

In this moss-cover'd cavern* hopeless 

laid* 
On the cold cliff lH lean my aching 

bead. 
And* pleai'd wfth HTmter's watiite* uft* 

pitying see 
All natnre in an agony with me. 
Roogh rugged rocki* wet marshes, rasn'd 

tow'rs* 
Bare trees* brown brakes, bleak heaths^ 

and rifihy moors* 
Dead floods^ hnge cataracts* to toy pkas'd 



(Now 1 can sia'de) — m wild disordcf 

rise ; 
And now the vummis drcadfnincw c o i 

bio*d* 
Bladt Bielancholy ooocs to dose aty 



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See ! Night's withM shades rise spread- 
ing through the air, 

j)ind the lone hollow gloom for me pit- 
pare! 

Hall, solicarf rtiler of the grave ! 

Parent of terrors ! from thy dreary cave 

Let thy dumb silence midnight all the 
groandy 

And spread a weleome honor wide 
around.— 

Bat, hark ! — a sudden howl Invades my 
ear! 

The phantoms of the dreadful hour are 
nrar; 

Shadows from each dark civem now 
combine. 

And stalk around, and mix their yells 
with mine. 

Stop, flying Time ! repose thy restless 

wing; 
Tix. here — nor hasten to restore the 

Spring ; 
Tlx'd my ill fate, so fiz'd let Winter 

be— 
I^tnevei wanton season laugh at me. 



STANZAS. 

Sung ly BeUamy, at the FarewtU Dinner, 
given to Earl Moira, by his Brother 
Mmonty enhis Departure far In via. 

fHOU soft-breathing lyre, for a while 
be suspended. 
The social delight which thy numbers 
impart; 
While sighs of regret with our raptures 
are blended, 
. And strains of affection flow warm 
from the heart. 
Hail! Hail! Hail! to ev'ry bosom 
dear, 
Hail ! thou, to whose honour*d 
name, 
We consecrate the parting tear. 

Ye ijealms where the day-star first springs 
from the ocean ; 
How welcome the dawn of phiUn- 
thropy's lay ; 
Ye nations that tremble in abject devo- 
tion, 
By Ganges or Indus~-rejolce in her 
sway. 
Hail !, Hail ! Hail ! &c. &c. 

Go on, noble spirit ! still guerdon*d with 

Pursue the bright track which thy fate 
has assign'^i ; 



EPITAPH, 

In StanweU Church Yard, on Margaret 
Grissel, voffe of Roger Grissd^ Crkr oj 
the Pcuritfi. 



For thus shall thy name live ennobled 
in story. 
Of Britain the pride, and the fricml of 
mankind. 
Hail! Huiil Hail! &c.&c. 

Oh ! deem not our hearts can c'ef 
cease to revere ihee. 
Or still on thy virtues with raptuie to 
dwell. 
Re-calling those scenes to our souls that ' 

endear thee. 
And the pain of that hour when we bade 
thee ferewell ! 
Hail! Hail! Hail I &c. &c. 

E*en then, while between us wide oceans 
are rolling, 
^Whene'er we assemble these rites to 
renew. 
With magic illusion, our senses contiol- 
ling. 

Shall fancy restore thee again to our 
view 
Hail! Hsiil! HaU! &c.&c. 

And when on that breast where briglit 
honour still beaming, 
Sheds lustre, excelling what Ling 
can bestow, 
The pledge of Fraternal affection is gleam- 
ing. 
With kindred emotions thy bosom shall 
glow. 
Hail ! Hail ! Hail ! &c. ftc. 

Oh! think, while glad millions their< 
gratitude breathing. 
For freedom and justice, thy name 
shall adore. 
Fond friendship and joy, rosy chaplets 
are wreathing. 
To greet thy return to thy lovM native 
shore. 
Hail! Hail! Hail! to ev'iy bosom 
dear. 
Hail! thoii, to whose bonour'd 
name. 
We consecrate the parting tear. 



^ERE to this spot roy wife is layd 

At rest from all her crthly laburs,, 
Glorie to God, peece to the d d, 
And to the years, i. e. ears, of all her 
nay burs. 



INBEX^ 



A. 

A LDH AMy Jonathan, some par- 
ticulars of the life of, 217. 

Anecdotes, of the celebrated Rabe- 
lais, 49. of Lord North and 
Major Barry, 185, of Dick 
Knight, the huntsman, 199. 
characteristic one of a French- 
man, 278. 

Animals, new work on sporting, 272. 

B, 

Baldock, Wm. Esq. some account 

of the life of, 255. 
Barclay, Captain, particulars of his 

life, &c. 226. 
Barton-upon-Humber, races at, 293. 
Berkeley Hunt, actions for trespass 

against the, 57. fox-chase by the, 

99- 
Bettings at Tattersall's, 151, 248, 

354- 
. Bland, Mr. Joseph, his appeal to the 

sporting world, 2. 
Blunderisms, curious, on the Turf, 

172. 
Bon-mot of Miss Wilberforce, 80. 
Boxer, death of that horse, 96. 
Breton, the, a fragment, 17. 
Bunbury, memoirs of the late Wm. 

Henry, Esq. 93. Some notice 

of his works, 254. 
Burgoyne, Sir Montague, great 

sport with his hariers, i6o. 

C. 

Card-playing, cpisure on^ 32. 
Canterbury races^ error relative to, 

corrected, i. 
Chatlesge, judgment for sending a, 

the King v. Aikin, 125. 
Childers, prevalent errors respecting 

the colour of, 2, 45, 254. 



Coach-offices, depredations commit- 
ted at, in conveyance of game, 9. 

Critics, anecdote applicable to, 25. 

Cocking, at Norwich, 96, 197* at 
Chester, 294. between Sussex 
and Kent, 294. 

Coursing-meetings, at Swaffham^ 
73, 2p6. Louth, 97, 222. Ilsley, 
103. Mai ton, 104. Newmar- 
ket, 105, 153. Beacon Hill, 
Berks, 188. Rockley, 201. 
Malton, 216. < 

Courts-martial, on Captain John 
Ford, of the First Surrey Militia^ 
^^. on Captain Frizell, of the 
same Corps, ^6, on Officers of 
the 85th regiment, 219. on Col. 
Balfour, 254^ 

D. 

Dispute, a sportiiig, in Northamp- 
tonshire, 77. 

Diomed, Grey, his pe4igree and 
performances, 262. 

Drop-leap, etching of a, 78. 

Dog, account of a singular, 176. 
sagacity of, 223. 

Dram -drinking, the practice vindi- 
cated, 260. 

Diury-Lane Theatre, account of 
the opening of the new, 13. 

Drunkards, instance of friendship- 
between two, 82. 

Duel, fatal, between Lieutenants 
Stewart and Bagnell, of the 
Marines, 20. trial of Lieute- 
nant Stewart, 277. 

E. 
East-India jockeyship, or how to 

buy a horse for money, 226. 
Egham races, the lady at, 128. 
Election, scene at an, in a country 
borough, 27. 

Englatidy 



INDEX. 



England, Dick, more particulars of 

the life of» 58. 
Ethiop, the, account of tbe« new 

drama of, 11. 
Epsom meeting, enquiry mpectnig 

the late, answered, 96. 

F. 

Fox-hound, instance of the courage 

of the, 245. 
Fox-hunting in Yorkshire, &c. 1 75. 
Fracas, RK)rting, 169. 
Fuller, John^ Esq. shooting his 

pack on account of madness^ 

276. 

0. 

Game Laws, hard^ps- arising front 
the, 1^ conrictioBa for bi'eaches 

Gamester, the revengeful, 170. 
Godolphin Arabian, on the true 

shape of the, 9. reply to, 68« 
Gohanna, pedigree and perform* 

ances of, 145. 
Gi:eyhound» sagacity of a^ ^t* 

H. 

Hippolytus, death of, frontispiece 

no the Volume, 253. 
Hoax, sporting, 244. 
Holyhock, his match with Crispin, 

24S. 
Horse, instance of cruelty to a, 8. 

on certain common errors in the 

treatment of the, 21. 
Korses in a storm, descriptive plate 

Horses, swindling in, 66, account 

of two celebrated, 97. 
Hunt, the royal, remarks on the 

state of, 55. 
Hydrophobia, successful treatment 

of case* •f, 62» 264* 



Incident, qurious, in sporting, 189^ 
Irishmen, singular mode of discd- 
veriDg,.i29. 



K. 

Kite and weaael, battle bc t we e a 9, 
260. 



Law Cases, respecting nx>aey lost 
at Hazard, , George v. Stanley^ 
J6* — ^To recover a bet from a 
stakeholder, Jacobs v. Abrahams^ 
loi. — NegRgent driving, BcD r. 
Bryant, 102. — -Warranty of. a 
bo^se, Dawson t% Sir Alexander 
Grant, Bart. 106. — Identity of a 
horse,' Liberty t. Taylor, 109. 
— To recover damages for shoot* 
ing a dog, Mocklbw r. Kelnian» 
110. — Action for libel, Benja- 
field V. Wheble, 160.— To re- 
cover a gaming debtjThistfewood 
». Cracroft and Hilf Ifarley, 204. 
— Breach of the game laws,. 
Clarke, Es(|, tr. Bi^ghton, 205. . 
—On promissory notes for monc]^ 
lost at play, assignees of Martha- 
dale V. Price, 250.— *-Tc> recover 
damages for shooting two ]X)iiit-. 
ers, 296. 

Love, Law, and Phpic, aqcpunt of. 
a new farce so called^ 76L 

Lounging, on, 177. 

Leapi rising at a,- 290^ 

Af. 

MatJO^-the-Mint, pecfigree and per^ 

formantes of, 197. 
Manners, Lord Robert, accident 

which befel hiiii in Leicester- 
shire, 243. 
Monkwesrniouth sod meeting, an- 

nounced^ 149. 
Montford, Lord, affair of honour 

between him ahd Col. Delap, 199.^ 
Moois, national manners of the,' 

258. 
Morocco, sending Unglish- cart* 

horses to, at the reqpeat of the 

Emperor, 285* 

.N. . 
Newmarket, Second and Third Oc- 
tober 



T^WS^, 



' at the, 34. ' 

Orkaey Islands, naluii'al history of 
' - the, 155, 210, !%%• 

P. 

PaintiQgs oq fpoiting subjects, igB*, 

pKDESTRiANisM.-^-Carter against 
time, on Sunbury Common, 39. 
East ag^in9t Un^ei S^. j^artholo^ 
mew ahd Wilfaot, ^5^ Beal ^nd 
Huns\yorth^ . ;qo, Ahx^hsLSf 
Wood and Carter, 138. between. 
Carter and thrf^ commoners^ 190^ 

^ the Margate butcher against tiiiie, 
191. the Brighton shepherd and 
Huns worth, 246. Mr« Yeoman 
against tifUQ^ z^S' Hammoni^ 
' against time« 295. Abraham 
Wood against time, 296. 

Pedestrianism, new worl^ under that 
title annpunced, j {o, account of» 
and extracts from it, 208. 

Pigeon (notches, between Howlett 
and Bunce, 84. «n Stoke Com- 
mon, Herts, 1 96. between King 
' and Smart, 295. on Midgham 
Common, Bucks, 295. 

Poachers, affray with some despe- 
rate, 207. ConTlctiens of two, 286. 

Poetry.— Glory at home, by N, 
L. Toire, 41. the pleasures of 
coursing, 41. 'address' spoken by 

, Mr. jBliistQpy oil opepiog New 
Drury-lane Theatre, 42. sailor 
Tom,' 43. hunting song, 43. the 

- WottBded croir^ 44. a decJaration. 
' of lovfif 44^ the Jaaisor and the^ 

blackbird, 89. past pl^asur^Sj, yg^ . 
on the flight of a tame hawk, 90. 
air sutig in "Love, Law, and 
Physicy'^* 91.* invocation to man 

- in &yanr o£.. animals, 91. im- 
promptu address by a |>oet to his 
writing desk, 92. on the death of 
P. (y.-<^ooke, comedian, 92. 
the Lrish ghoAt^ 92. -to Clonoda» ' 

.99* t}i?. ^nm^'B laneatovcr 
hjs dead pointer, i^u^ to Heoiy 



Bunbary, Esq. 141. bellman's 
r^fKi bj w^y of prologoet 141* 
the o}d paint^f's fpliloquy, I43« 
on hobby horses, 143. Lovely 

. .^^bify» 143. the s^andon^ 144. 
sonnet, 144. imprompiu ttinaia- 
tioo of anodetp Atiacreon* 144- 
on skaiting,- 144. the Caraican 
fox, 193. prologue to the come- 
dy of ^ the Studenttof Salaroan- 
ca," 193- , AlWp-a-Daie, f^ 
female friendshipi 194* tl^ gifN 
sey gang, 195, ^e vicwig© 9«t 
questered, 195. .^oogt ^ Lprd 
Thuriow, 196). lines ob the mu^ 
ta^ility of human j^fairsb <9& 

, the gaioes of Gk^ec^ 196.— 
Waltzing, 249. ^]i;-huntiogfOiag» 
dedicated to Lieut.-Col. CooJce^ 
250. Home and Herefordshire^ 
250. song in ** the ^bs^nt Apo- 
thecary," 351. the <rxpostular 
tion, 252. the life of an qH wo- 
man, 252. impromptiit 252* 
tears of Fitz- Arthur, 301 • poeti* 
cal description of die game of 
the Jew, 301. Sprightly, 302. a 
winter's day, 303. stanzas sung 
at the Freemason's Tavern, oa 
OQcasiop of Lord MfiU'^'s depar* 
ture for India, 304. 

Pointers, damages recovered of Lord 
Lilford (or shooting, 290. 

Portraits, a desideratum in rsLcingf^ 
noticed, 173. 

Pugilism — between Fprd aod Hol«. 
loway, the Battersea gardener^ 
33* Pounce and Carter, 46. Chip 
and Bryant, 6&. Lancaster and' 

. Coopec, 99* Fordham and Joaa**- 
than, 139. Cfab aiut NewM^Qt 
152. between the son of a reve* 
rend prelate and a Tootmao, at 
Sottthamptoo, 203. betweeit' 
Humphrey an<lHailhijEton»2C4^ ' 
Cranstone and Whitfeld, 2^ 
' Jones and Elms, .29$. Ha^cocj^ 
and Barnes, 297. 

Pytdblej-Hun^ i^ee hrihe jogt. 
cup, .given by ibe, 293* 

Rjemoncy 



INDEX. 

^ , R. ter, for shodtmg Lieut Bagoelf lA 

Retnerge, account of Mr. Cole- a duel, 277. 

fidge'i new tragedy «o called. Students of Salaidancay account of 

171. • that, comedy* 181. » 

•Rolla^ Lord Rivera's, death of that Suwarrow, some particulars of the 

• dog, 0. life of the celebrated field mar- 

•Kobber, the illiterate, but ingenious, shal, 145. 

217. ' ' - Swallows, on the migration of, 300. 

S- T. 

Sdndbeck Hunt, chase by the, 205. "ngers, method of destroying in 

iSchoolibaster, the Irish, 186. India, 239. 

Stage-coachmen and pugilisu, battle Training, a dissertation on, 209* 

Ixtween, 171. • * 268. 

Stag, head of, an engraving, i. Turks, manners and customs of thei 

Stag-hunt on Epping Forest, as in- 67. 

trochiced in the pantomime of 

Harlequin and the Red Dwarf, W. 

177. Wales, Princess of, letter from her 

Stallidos, to cover in 18 13, list of, to the Prince, 2.32. 

123. 149. 202. Warwick, account of the November 

St. Leger stakes, winners of them, races at, 78. 

from thtir commencement, 26. West Hyde harriers, remarkable 

Steeple race, account of one, at Der- course with the, 238. 

*' ^^ 135* Winning horses in 18 12, a complete 

Stfu^rt, Lieut, his trial at Winches- list oi the, 69. 117. 



DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER, 
For placing the Engramngs, Sfc, 



FkoNTispiBCE...........*.....,........... ,JoJace the Vignette Title^agem 

Stag's Heab — ....^.••...•.•................•••.••..•••* i 

PAYING Leap •*•••.•••.••.••• ••••••. ••••— ••••••.•••m««« 34 

I^QZiSEs IN A Storm........*.. r.................................................... 4C 

- A Drop Lbap •••.••.........•..•••.•••...••... 78 

BORTRAIT Olf W. H. BUNBURT, Esq. •....••..........•....«...•««.......•.•...... 93 

The Lady AT Egham Races •..•..•..^••••...•••.•.•.•^•.••.••••..•^••^.••m.128 

^^.Th^.S^aq-Humt at Epping ,....;....... 177 

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PONTEFRACT MEETING, 1812. 

hrUESDAY, September 8. ^The Produce Stakes of 5bgd. each, for 

, three-year-olds.^— Two miles.— -Five subscribers. 
Mr. Uppleby's br. c. Orion, by Sancho, out of a Sister to Hyaointhus, 

. 8st. (J. Garbutt) 1 

Mr. Harrison's ch. f. PataUni, by Dick Andrews, out of Violante's 

dam, 7st. 1 lib , 2 

Mr. E. L. Hodgson's br. f. by Shuttle, out of Miss Mnston, 8st 3 

Two to 1 on Orion. -^A good race. 

Sweepstakes of lOgs. each, with 20l. added, for all ages.— Four miles. 

Four subscribers. 
Mr. E. L. Hodgson's gr. c. Pomfret-Cake, by Hambleto- 

nian, 4 yrs old walked oven 

The Produce Stakes of 50gs. each, h. ft. for four-year-olds. — ^Four miles* 

Six subscribers. 
Duke of Hamilton's b. f. Bashful, by Beningbrough, out of Young 

Miss Pratt, 8st 4lb. (B. Smith) 1 

Lord Fitzwilliam's b. f. by Beningbrough, out of Minstrel, 8st. lib. 

(bolted) 2 

Even betting.— Won very easy. 

Sweepstakes of 30gs. each, 20gs. ft. for three->years-old colts, 8st. Sib. 

fiUies, Sst.— The last mile and three quarters. — ^Fourteen subscribers. 
Mr. N. B. Hodgson's ch. c. Skip, by Stride, out of Lady Mary's dam 

(J. Shepherd) ] 1 

Sir W. Gerard's b. c. Don Rodrigo, by Windle, out of Lady Sarah, 

by Fidget i 

Lord Milton's b. c. Euryaliis, by Trafalgar, out of Orville's Sister . . 3 

Mr. Kay's b. c. by Hambletonian, dam by Jupiter 4 

Mr, Watt's ch. g. Tosiloss, by Dick Andrews 5 

Lord Scarbrough's br. c. by Sir Solomon, dat of Fantail 6 

Five to 4 agst Sir W. Gerard's colt, and 5 to 1 agst Skip. 

Fifty Pounds for horses, &c. of all ages.-*Heat8, two miles and a half. 
Mr. Theakston's b. c. Ashton-Lad, by Shuttle, 3 yrs old, 6st. 5lb. 

(C.Marson) .' 7 I 1 

Mr. Cliftop's b. f. Boadicea, by Warrior, 3 yrs old, &t. 4lb 2 2 2 

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Mr. Shepherd's b. f. Spider, by Sir Soiomon, 4 yrs, /st, gib 6 5 Z 

Mr. Frauk*s hr. g. by Paynator, dam by DragoD^ 4 yrs old, 

7st. gib 1 3 df, 

Mr. Watt*8 ch. c. Tosiloss, 3 yrs old, ^t. 41b 5 4 dr. 

Mr. Uppleby's b. f. Harriet, 4 yrs ofd, 78t. gib 3 dr. 

Mr. Acred's b. f. by StamfonI, 3 yrs old, Gst. 4lb 4 dr. 

Five to 4 agst Boadicea. 

WEDNESDAY, Septetef»erg.— Sweepstakes of 20gs. eat^b, for two- 
years-old colts, 8st. 3lb. fillies, 8st. — ^Last mile. — Five subscribers. 
Mr. J. Scaife*s b. c. by Sancho, out of Eliza, by Highflyer (B. Smith) I 
Mr. Smaliwood's b. c. by St. George, dam by Mr. Richardson'^s Marsk 2 

Lord Fitzwilliam*s b. f. by Sir Paul, out of Evelina 3 

Even betting oo Mr. Scaife's c6lt. — Won easy. 

The Gold Cup, value lOOgs. by fourteen subscribers of lOgSw each, with 

20g8. added.-— Fovr miles. 
Mr. Wilson's gr. c. Brother to Bttvofo, by Stamford, 3 yrs, 6st. 6lb. . . 1 
Mr. Moiikman^s b. c. Don Jfilnn, by Stamford, 3 yrs old, 6st. 61b. . . 2 
Sir B. R, Grabam^s br. c. Biscuit, by Brown-Brea<l, 3 yrs, 6st. 61b« . . 3 
Mr. Scs(risbrick*s b. f. rio-6ixre-he-sha*n*t, by Coriolanut, 3 yrs oid> 

^staih. : 4 

Lord FitlwilKamli b. e. Buryatusf, 3 yrs okl, 6st. &h. (feti) . . ^ . . . . • 5 
Five to 2 agst Don Jatiafi, and 3 to I agst the Brother to Baron, who 

took tbe lead and was never beaded. 

Sweepstakes of 7gs. each, for horses not thorough bred.-^Heats, two 

ftiiks and a half.— Ten stdjscribers. 
Mr. Nalton^i b. f. Woodbiiie> by Hyacinthus, 4 yrs old, list. lib. 

<llr. Osbsldestott). 1 1 

Mr. Symk*8 di. g. Woodcock, by Timothy, 5 yrs old, 1 1st. 7lb. • . 2 2 

Mr. J. ThonpBon*8 b. m. Mtnukip-Lass, by Jupiter, aged, 1 2st. 4lb. 3 3 

Mr. Ferguson's ch. g. Grenadier, by St. (reorge, 5 yrs, 1 1st. 12lb. 5 4 

Mr. Feiit«]iii*t gr. nu Helen, by Sliortlegs, 5 yrs old, 1 1st. 7lb 4 dr. 

Two to 1 on Woodbine.— Won easy. 

The Macaroni Stakes^ of lOgs. each, for hones, &c. — Gentlemen riders. 

Three miles.— Five subscribers. 
Mr. N^tM't h. f. Woodbine, by Hyacinthus, 4 yrs old, 

lOsl. 13ftt) : walked over. 

THURSDAY, September 10.— Sweepstakes of 20gs. each, with 20gs. 
added, for three-years-old filKes. — Last mile and three quarters.— 'Five 
subscribers. 
Mr. Hewett*s bay, Cwra, by Dick Andrews, out of Miss EKza Teazle, 

8st. 3H>. (W. Peirse) 1 

liord Fitzwilliam's chesnut, by Stamfoni, out of Wryneck, 8st 2 

Mr. E. L. Hodgson's brown, by Shuttle, out of Miss Musfou, Sst. . . 3 
Mr. Clark's chesnut, Blwina, by Sorcerer, Out of Patience, 8st. 3lb.. • 4 

Three to 1 on Cwm. — Won easy. 

The lOOl. for all ages. — ^Three-mile beats. 
Sir 6. Armytage's h. c. Speculator, by Chance, 4 yrs old, 7«t. 5lb. 

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Mr. Monkman^s b. c. Don Juliiini by Stamford, 3 yrs^ 6st. t3lb. 13 4 
Mr. Key's b. c. by HamblftoDian, clam by JiipUer^ 3 yi*? o\A, 

6st. 9lb. 222 

Mr. E. L. Hodgson's gr. c. Pomfret-CaHe^ 4yrs pldL 8^t. 2lb. . . 4^3 
Lord Scarbrougb's br. c. by Sir Solomon, dam by PotSo's, 3 yiss 

old, 6st. 9lb ^ 4 « 

Mr. Harrison's b. tg. by Hanibletoaiaiij d^m by JPha^meoony 4 

yrs old, Jst 5lb * . . . , kV* 

Five to 2 agst Don Julian; after tbe first b^at, jevfcn bfttipg on Specu- 
lator, and 5 to 2 agst Don Julian ; after tbe second heat, 3 to 1 on 
Specttlator.— A very fine race. 

Mr. Hewett's b. f. Mannella, by Dick Andrevs, 8tt. 3lb. agst Mr. E. L, 
Uodgson^s br. f. by Sbuttle^ out of Miss Muston^ Sst. two miles^ 10Q|fi;«« 
h.ft, — Off by consent. 



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BODMIN M£E;TJNG, CORNWALL. 

T^UESDAY, August 25. Fifty Poumls for all ages.^Two-miU 

beats. 
Lord Faln)oatb*8 cb. m. Jannette, by King Bladnd, 5 yrs old^ 

Sst. lOlb. ....!..... 1 • 1 

Mr. Cox's br. c. Coker, 3 yrs oM, 6st. 3lb. 2 2 

Four and 5 to 1 on Jannette. 

Sweepstakes of 5g8. eacb, for horses, &c..not tbproug)^ bred.-r-Twp-mil« 

l^e^ts.— Seven subscribtTS. 
Mr. Peach's b. g. Robin Hood, by Dotterel, a^ed. ....... ^alki^d over. 

The Ladies' Purse of 5(fl. for all ages. — ^Two-(nilp heats. 
Mr. Radclyffe*s b. h. Smallhop^^ by Hambletc^ian, 6 yrs o\4^ 

Qst. 7lb .....-•. 1 1 

Mr. Farquharson's ch. g. Picaroon, aged, pst. 7lb. ............ 4 ^ 

Mr. Digby's b. c. Cardenio, 4 yrs old, 8st. 8lb. ..!..... ,3 3 

Mr. Lendon's b. g. bvBenipgbrough, 3 yrs old, &r. 121b 5 4 

Lord De Dunstanville*S:^. b. Bu8tler,5 yts old, 8st. 13U> 2 dr. 

Smallhopies the favourite ; after the beat, 2 and 3 to 1 iie .wan. 

WEDNJSSDAy.— The Gold Cup, vaUve ipogs. for all ^ges.— Four 
n^iles. , ^ 

Lord Falniouth^s ch. m. Jannutte, 5 yrs old, gst. 3lb.. \ I 

Lord De Dunstanvillc's gr. .b. Bustler, ^ yrs old, ^t. ICHb ^ 2 

Mr. RadclyffeVb.b. Smallhopes/^ yrs old, ^t. gib. ..' . ....... ^ 

Mr. Cox's b. g. by Beningbrough^ 3 yrs old, 6st. gib.. '. 4 

Sixt94agstJAnnttte,7 to4 8gst Smallhopes, and 3 to 1 agst Bustler. 

lilatcb fqr 25gs,-<-Oue wii(e. 

Mr. Peach's b. g. Rpbin Hood, by Dottei-eU, a^ed, 8st 1 

Mr. Plgby'sb. c, Carden>o^.4 yrs old, 8st. 2 

Aft€r wbicjj^ jB-Qbii? IJood, Sst. 8lb. beat C^rdepiio, 8st. one ipile, 
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Handicap Purse of 50l. for the beaten horses, &c. — Two-mile heat^^ 
Xiord De Dunstanvilie's gr. h. Bustler^ by Delpini^ 5 yrs old, 

8st. 8lb 2 1 2 ; 

Mr. Farqubarson's ch. g. Picaroon, by King Fergus, aged, 

gst. 7ib 3 3 1 2 

Mr. Cox*8 br. c. Coker^ by Totteridge, 3 yrs old, 6st. 7lb. . . 12 3 3 
Bustler the favourite 3 after the first beat, 6 to 4 on the field ; after tbe 
second heat, 6 and 7 to 4 on Bustler ; after the third heat, eveu 
betting on Picaroon. — ^A very fine race. 



BURDERQP MEETING, WILTS. 

TWONDAY, September 7. ^The Gold Cup, value lOQgs. with 5(^5. 

in specie, for all ages. — Four miles. 
Lord C. Somerset*s br. h. Scorpion, by Gohanna, aged, pst. 2lb. (T. 

Goodisson) I 

Sir H. Lippincott's b. c. Beverley, 4 yrs old, 8st 2 

Even betting and ^ to 4 on Scorpion.^-- A very fine race, and won bj 

half a neck. 

Sixty Guineas for all ages.r—Three-mile heats. 

Mr. Dnndas's ch. g. Romeo, by Vernator, aged, 9st. 13lb 1 1 

Mr. Day's b. m. Morgiana, 5 yrs old, pst. 3lb 2 2 

Mr. A. Goddard's br. h. Windsor, 6 yrs old, g$t, 61b 3 dr. 

Sir H. Lippincott's b. c. Kangaroo, 4 yrs old, Sst. /lb 4 dr. 

Romeo the favourite,— The first heat Was a very severe one, but the 

second was won somewhat easy. 

The Silver Cup for horses, &c. the property of non-commissioned Offi- 
cers and privates of the Wiltshire Yeomanry Cavalry.— Yeomanry 
riders, 13st. each. — ^Two-mile heats, was won at four heats by 

Mr. S. ByrchalFs ch. g. Young PeneO, by Pencil, beating Salamanca 
and Tramezzani, who won the first two heats. — Excellent riding. 

THURSDAY.— Match for lOOgs.— Two miles. 

Mr. Galley's b. h. Mountaineer, by Magic, aged, Sst. 13lb 1 

Mr. Dundas's ch. g. Romeo, aged, Qst. 7lb 2 

Five and 6 to 4 on Mountaineer.-— Won cleverly. 

Handicap Purse of 50gs. for horses, &c. — ^Tw^o-mile heats. 

Mr. Calley*s b. h. Mountaineer, by Magic, aged, pst. 2ib 1 1 

Mr. Day's b. m. Morgiana, 5 yrs old, 8st. 7lb 2 2 

Mr. A. Goddard's br. b. Windsor, 6 yrs old, 8st. 4lb 3 3 

Mr. Roger's Glancer Capet, 6 yrs old, 7st. 13lb. 4 dr. 

Mr. Miles's b. c. by King Bladud, 3 yrs old, 6st. 13 lb 5 dr. 

£ven betting on Mountaineer ; after the heat, 2 to 1 and 5 to 2 on 

Mountaineer.— Won easy. 

The Silver Punch Bowl and Ladle for horses, &c. not thorough bred. 
Two-mile beats, was won by Mr. R. Church's bay mare. Crazy Jane. 

*4t* For a more particular actount, see our last Sporting Magazine^ 
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KELSO MEETING, SCOTLAND, 

nPUESDAY, September 8 Sweepstakes of 20gs. each, for three* 

years-old colts, 8st. 3lh. fillies, 8st. — ^Two miles. — Four subscribers, 

3VIr. Efon's oh. f. Agnes Sorrel, by Stamford, out of Remnant, by Trum- 
pator I 

Mr. Brandling's b. c. Geranium, by Hyacinthus, dam by AbbaThulle H 

3VIr. Baillie's b. f. Salamanca, by Stamford, dam by Overton, out of 

Streamer's dam 31 

Agnes Sorrel the favourite. — Won easy. 

Fifty PouncU for three and four-year-olds — Two-mile heats. 
Mr. Don's ch. f. Agnes Sorrel, by Stamford, 3 yrs old, 7st. 4lb. . . 1 I 

Mr. Baillie's b. f. Keepsake, 4 yrs old, Sst. 4lb 3 U 

Mr. Brandling's b. c. Geranium, 3 yrs old, 7st. /lb 2 dr. 

Two and 3 to 1 on Agnes Sorrel. — Won easy. 

WEDNESDAY.— Fifty Founds for all ages.— Four-mile heats. 

Mr. Boswell's b. m. Pccunia, by Pensioner, 6 yrtoW. 1 l 

Mr. Baillie's b. f. Keepsake, 4 yrs old 2 "2 

Two to 1, and after the heat, 5 to 1 on Pecunia. — Won easy. 



NORTHAMPTON MEETING. 

Tl^EDNESDAY, September 9. Sweepstakes of 20g8. eacb, for 

tbree-yearsrold colts, Sst. 4lb. fillies, Sst. 2lb. — The last mile.— Fi«- 

subscribers. 

Mr. Tibbit's br. c. Pericles, by Evander, dam by Precipitate, 

out of Firetail, by Highflyer walked over. 

The Gold Cup, value lOOgs. with 60gs. in specie, for all ages. — ^Threc 

miles and a quarter. 
Pul^e of Grafton's b. h. Whalebone, by Waxy, 5 yrs old, Sst. 8lb. (T. 

Goodisson) 1 

Mr. Astley's b. c. Magic, by Sorcerer, 4 yrs old, 7st. 12lb 2 

Mr. Andrew's b. h. Discount, by Teddy, aged, Qst. 2lb 3 

The two following also started, but were not placed : 

Mr. Tibbit's br. c. Pericles, 3 yrs old, 6st. ()lb O 

Duke of Rutland's bl. f. Thalestris, 3 yrs old, 6st. 4lb .-. O 

£}ven betting on Whalebone, 7 to 4 against Magic, and 3 to 1 agst Dis- 
count. 

Seventy Guineas for all ages. — Heats, about a mile and three quarters. 
Gen. Grosvenor's ch. f. Defiance, by Gs^intlet, 3 yrs, 6st. lllb. . . 1 I 

Mr. Astley's br. m. Elve, 5 yrs old, 8st. 4lb 2 2 

Mr. Harrison's b. f. Grace, 3 yrs old, 6st. 1 lib. (fell) .3 dis 

Mr. Bruen's cb. h. Mr. Gundy, aged, Qst. 5lb 4 dr- 

Mr. Jones's br. h. Orange-Squeezer, 5 yrs old, Sst. Qlb 5 dn 

Even betting, and after the heat, 3 to 1 on Defiance. — Won easy. 

THURSDAY. — Sweepstakes of lOgs. each, for all ages.— Heats* 
about a mile and three quarters. — Six subscribers. 

|IIr. Tibbit's br. c, Pericles, by Evander, 3 yrs old, Sst. 12lb I 

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Dfike of Rutland's bi. t Tbalestris, 3 yrs old^ 6$t. lOlb 3 

Five and 6 to 4 on Thalestris. 

Seventy Guineas for all ages. — Ueats^ about three miles and tbrtc 

quarters. 

Gen. Gro8venor*8 ch. f. Defiance^ by Gauntlet, 3 yrs old, 6st. 7lb. , 1 1 

Mr. Sisson's ch.f. Folly, 4 yrsold, 78t. lllb 3 2 

Sir T. Stanley's b. c. Clan-Alinne, 4 yrs old, 78t. lOlb 2 Z 

Mr. Bruen's cb. b. Mr. Gundy, aged, 9«t. gib 4 4 

Mr. Tibbit's br. c. Pericles, 3 yrs old, 6st. plb 5 dr. 

Five to 4> and after the heat, 5 to 1 on Defiance.-— Won easy.. 



LICHFIELD MEETING, STAFFORDSBIRE. 

'XnJESDAY, September 10. ^The King's Purse of lOOgs. for fo«r- 

•*• year-olds and upwards. — Four-mile heats. 

Mr. Painter's gr. g. Fulminator, by Walton, 4 yrs old, lOst 41b.. . 1 1 

Mr. Tomes's b. c. Watchman, 4 yrs old, lOst. 4lb. ,..••• ..3 2 

Mr. Lockley's ch. c. Crib, 4 yrs old, lOst. 4lb.. 4 3 

Mr. Canning's b. f. Slang, 4 yrs old, lOst. 4lb 3 dr. 

Fttlminator the favourite, and 3 to 1 agst Watchman ; after the 'heat, 2 

to 1 on Fulminator. 

The County Stakes of lOgs. each, for hunters. — Four imles. — ^Ten sub- 

scnbers. 
Mr. Dyott's b. m. by Gayman, dam by Hardwick,6 yrs, list. 1 lib. . t 

Mr. Glover's br. h. Bruno, by Symmetry, 6 yrs old, 12st 2 

Bruno the favourite. 

WEDNESDAY. Seventy Guineas for three and four-year-olds. 

Two-mile beats. 

Mr. Glover's b. c. Lignum- Vit9, 3 yrs old, 7st ••.! t 

Mr. Powell's b. c. Banker, 4 yrs old, 88t. 4lb 3 2 

Sir T. Mostyn's b. c. No-Body, 4 vrs old, Sst. 4lb 2 3 

Five to 4 on Banker, 6 to 4 agst Mr, Glover's colt, and 5 to 1 agst Nor 
Body; after the beat, 3 tO 1 on Mr. Glover's colt. 

The Ladies' Purse of 50g8. — ^No race for want of horses* 

THURSDAY.— Fifty Guineas for aU ages.— Fonr-mile heats. 

Mr. Canning s b. f. Slang, by Vermin, 4 yrs old, 7st. g\h 1 1 

Mr. S;iunders's br. c. Black-Boy, by Diamond, 4 vrs^ Jst. g)h 3 2 

Mr. Bettison^s b. m. by Alonzo, 5 yrs old, 8st. 4lb 4 3 

Mr. Bratle's b. m. Georgiana, 5 yrs old, Sst. 4lb 5 4 

Mr. Lockley's ch. c. Crib, 4 yrs old, 7st. 7lb 2 dr. 

Five to 4 on Georgiana, 3 and 4 to 1 agst Slangy after the heat, 6 to i 

on Slang. 

Sweepstakes of IQgs. aacb, wHh 20gs. added, for all ages, — ^Two<miIe 

heats. 

Lord Wilton's br. m. Berenice, by Alexander, aged, pst. lib 2 11 

>ir.Dyott'sbr.f, Betsys 4 yrs old, Sst. lib , ,. !«* 

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Mr. Baifibrigge*s hn c. Sir Roger, 3 yrs old, 6st. 12lb. (bolted). . 3 dis. 
Six to 4 on Bef enice ; after the first heat, 5 to 4 on Betsy 5 after the ^ 

second heat^ 2 to 1 on Berenice. 



BURTON-UPON-TRENT MEETING. 

Tt/rONDAY, September 14.*-: Sweepstakes of 5gs. each, with SQfL 

added, for horses, &c. — ^Two-mile heats. 

Mr. Fletcher's gr. f. Juno, by Delpini, 4 yrs old, 8st. lib 1 1 

Mi. Astley's b. f. I/aura, by Beningbrougb, 3 yrs old, 6st. 6tb. ... 2 dr. 

Mr. Bainbrigge*8 br. c. Sir Roger, 3 yrs old, dst. 1 lib. 3 dr. 

Six and 7 to 4 on Jana. 

Mr. C. HiU*8 bf^ m. Cleopatra, beat Capt. FeeFs gr. g. Salamanca, two 
miles, 501. 

Mr. Hoskins*s b. g. Ruler, l28t. beat Ca|it. Fed's gr. g. SalanvaacSy 
two miles, 501. 

TUESDAY.— The Ladies' Purse of 50l. for all ages.— Three-mik 
lieats.. ^ 

Mr. Painter's gr. g, Falminator, by Walton, 4 yrs, 8st. 7lb. ..23 1 1 

Mr. Athertuu's b. m. Cbickey-Pokey, 5 yrs old, 8st. 3 lb 4 1 2 2 

Mr. Astley's b. f. Laura, 3 yrs old, 7st. . . . . , 1 2 4 dr. 

Mr. Fidler's b, f. Tarporley-Lass, 4 yrs old, Sst 5 5 3 

Mr. Wieeler's b.g. Sion-Hill, 4 yrs old, 8st. 3lb 6 4 dr. 

Mr. Browne's ch. h. Lord Wellington, 5 yrs old, Sst. l(Ab. 

(bolted) ^ 3 dif. 

Fulminator the favourite; after the third heat, 5 to I he won. 

Sweepstakes of 5gs. each, with 25gs. added, for horses. Sec. not thofougli 

bred. — ^Two-mile heats. — Eleven subscribers. 
Mr. Smith's b. m. Ne Plus Ultra, by Coriander, 5 yrs, 1 Ist. 7lb.. .13 1 

Mr. Wilkins's b. h. Bandy, aged, 12st 7 1 3 

Mr. Lathhury's ch. m. Crazy Jane, by Channter, 4 yrs old, 

- lOst. 121b 324 

Mr. Hill's br. m. Victoria, aged, 12st 5 4 d» 

Mr. Bake well's br. h. by Barometer, 4 yrs old, lOst. 12lb 2 dis. 

Mr. Hoskins's b. g. Thereabouts, by Orbmdo, 4 yrs, lOst. 12lb. 6 dif. 

Mr. Gregoiys cb. h. Smallhopes, aged, 12st 8 dis. 

Mr. Hoskins's ch. g. He's-There, aged, 12st. (bolted) 9 dis. 



KINGSCOTE MEETING, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 

'TUESDAY, September 15. ^Match for One Hundred Guineas.-- 

^ The Old Mile. 
Sir H. Lippincott'sb. c. Cross-Bow, by Cheshire-Cheese, Sst. lOlb.. . 1 

Mr. A. Goddard's b. f. Brightonia, Sst 2 

Even betting. 

Match for lOOgs. — ^Fonr mites. 

Mr. Calley's. ch. m, Barbara^ by Teddy, 5 yrt old| Sst. 5lb. i 

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Mr. B!ggs*6 b. f. Dorina, by Gohanna,4 yrs okl; 8st. lib. . . . :\ • . r«« 3 

Five to 1 on Barbara. 

The First Class of tbe Kingscote Stakes of 25gs. estcb^ 15 ft. witb 50^i 

added by tbe Club. — Three miles. — Eight subscribers. 
Sir H. Lipi>incott's b. c. Cross-Bow, by Cheshire -Cheese, 4 yrs old, 

Qst. 7ib i * 1 

Mr. Rawlin8on*s br. g. Topsy-Turvy, aged, lOst. 8lb. . ; 2 

Mr. Fryse's b. c. Caliban, by Sorcerer, 3 yrs old, 8st. 2lb 3 

liord C, Somerset's b. c. Angelo, 4 yrs old, lOst. 2lb 4 

Mr. XVliitmore's Peregrine, 4 yrs old, gst. g\b 5 

The Second Class of the Kingscote Stakes of 25g8. each, 15 ft. with 
50gs. added by the Club.-— Three miles. — Seven subscribers. 

Mr. Callcy's b, b. Mountaineer, by Magic, aged, 1 1st. 2lb 1 

Sir H. Lippincott's b. c. Beverley, 4 yrs old, lOst. 7lb ^ 

Mr. Whitmore'a b. c. Rail, 4 yrs old, 9st. 1 lib i 3 

*^* Eight other Subscribers paid 5gs. each, which was divided be^ 
tween tbe owners of the winners in the two Classes. 

Eighty Founds for three-year-olds and upwards. — Two-mile heats. 
liOrd C. Somerset's b. b. Oi]'a*s Dyke, by Faynator^ 5 yrs old, 

list. 8lb. 11 

Jlr. Worrall's br. f. Jesse, by Totteridge, 3 yrs old, pst. 61b 2 2 

Mr. Figott's b. h. York, aged, 12st. 2lh 3 3 

Six and 7 to 4 on Offa's Dyke. 

WEDNESDAY.— Sweepstakes of lOgs. each, witb 50gs. added by 
the Club. — Three miles. — Eight subscribers. 

Mr. Biggs*s ch. c. Camertou, by Hamblctonian, 4 yrs, lOst. ?lb 1 

Sir H. Lippincott's b. c. Beverley, 4 yrs old, lOst. 3lb ^ 

Mr. Jones's b. b. Foulton, aged, 1 1 st. 8lb 3 

Five to 4 on Foulton, 7 to 4 agst Camerton, and 2 to 1 agst Beverley. 

Sweepstakes of 5gs. each, with 50gs. added by the Club. — Four miles. 

Seventeen subscribers. 
Mr. Hallett's br. c. Calebs, by Sir Feter or Beningbrougb, 4 yrs old, 

lOst. 2lb 1 

Mr. Figott's b. h. Mantidamun, 5 yrs old, 1 1st 2 

Lord C. Somerset's b. c. Angelo, 4 yrs old, lOst. 2lb 3 

Five to 4 on Coelehs, 6 to 4 agst Mantidamun, and 2 to 1 agst Angelo* 

Handicap Furse of 50l. — Heats, the last mile. 
Mr. Rawlinson's br. g. Topsy-Turvy, by St. George, aged, 

lOst. 9lb 4 1 I 

Mr. Whitmore's b. c. Rail, 4 yrs old, pst. gib 1 22 

Mr. Bayzand*s ch. c. Coniac, 4 yrs old, Qst. Q\h 2 431 

Mr. Fryse*s b. c. Caliban, 3 yrs old, 8st 3 3 dr. 

Rail the favourite ; after the first heat, 7 to 4 on Rail ; after the second 

heat, 2 to 1 on Topsy-Turvy. 

THURSDAY.— Match for lOOgs.— Half a mile. 

Mr. A. Goddard's b. f. Brigbtonia, by Gobanoa, 8st.. ••«<... r •••• • ^ 

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fell* H. LippiDcotfs b. c. Cross -Bow, get. 4lh • . • .T» •\7T* . i 2 

Five and 6 to 4 on Brigbtonia. 

Matcb for lOOgs.— Two miles. 
Mr. Biggs*s br. c. Beresford, by Mr. Teazle, 4 yrs old, 8st., ..•,•••»« 1 

Mr. Peacb's ch. m. Jannette, 5 yrs old, 8st. 8lb 2 

£ven betting, and 5 to 4 on Beresford. 

Match for lOOgs.— The New Mile. 
Mr. A. Goddard^s b. f BrigH tenia, by Gohiinna, 4 yrs old, Sst. 4lb. • • 1 

Sir H. Lippincott's cb. h. Ringdove, 5 yrs old, pst. 7lb » • 2 

t'ive and 6 to 4 on Brigbtonia. 

Handicap Purse of 5ol. — ^Two-mile heats. 

Mr. Rawiinson*s br. g. Topsy-Turvy, aged, i ist ; 6 1 1 

Sir H. Lippincott*s b. h. Hephestion, 5 yrs old, lOst. ilb 1 2 2 

Mr. Whitmoie*s b. c. Peregrine, 4 yrs old, Qst. 2lb 4 3 dr. 

Mr. Galley's ch. m. Barbara, 5 yrs old, lOst. Bib 5 4 dt. 

Mr. Worrall's br. f. Jesse, 3 yrs'old, Sst. 12lb 2 dr. 

Mr. Biggs*s br. c. Beresford, 4 yrs old, JOst. 5lb 3 dn 

Match for 50gs. — One mile. 

Mr. Peach's b. g. Robin Hood, by Dotterel, 12st. 7lb; » i 

Capt. Berkeley's Bubbler, JSst Sib 3 

llobtu Hood the favourite.-^The Owners rode. 



SHREWSBURY MEETING, SHROPSHIRE. 



'TUESDAY. September 15.— «>-«-Sweepstakes of lOgs. each, withSOgs/ 
added, for horses, &c. — ^Twice round the Course.— Eight sub** 
icribers.' 

Lord Grey's br. f. Stella j by Sir Oliver, 4 yrs old„ Jit, 12\h. » 1 

Mr. Benson's b. c. Uncle Toby, 3 yrs old, 6st. 7lb .r* . . ^ 4 . • • . . . 5^ 

Five and 6 to 4 on Stella. 

Fifty Pounds for maiden horses^ &c.'-^Foar^mile heats^ 
Mr. Benson's br. c. British Bayonet, by Hambletonian^ 4 yrs dld> 

7i>t. 7lb 1 1 

Mr. Oldersay's br. c. by Diamond, 3 yrs old, 6st 2 dh 

Mr. Bayley's br. c. Sir Rowland, 3 yrs old, 6st ♦ . 3 dr. 

Mr. Siiawe's b. f Fair Forester, 3 yrs old, Sst. 12lb 4 dr. 

Sir Wm. Wynne's gr. f Persian Maid, 3 yrs old, 5st. 12lb 5 dr. 

Col. White's ch. m. aged, Sst. 12lb , 6 dr. 

Six and 7 to 4 on British Bayonet. 

'WEDNESDAY.— The Gold Cnp, value lOOgs. for horses, &c.— 
•twice round the C-iurse and a distance. 

Mr. Benson's b. c. Uncle Toby, by Golumpus, 3 yrs old, dfet. 61b 1 

Mr. E^ertOn's b. c. Hit-or-Miss, 4 yrs old, 7st. 12lb. 2 

Mr. M. Benson's gt*. h. Lutwyche, 6 yrs old, Sst. 1 lib 3 

Sir E. Smythe's br. g. Hambleton .Tack, 6 yrs old, Sst. lllb 4 

Six to 4 agst UiJcleToby, 7 to 4 agst Hit-or-Miss, 7 to 4 agst Lutwyche, 

and 2 to 1 agst H-ambleton Jack. 
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10 TH£ ItACilf Q XUUufiNDAR. 

Fifty Founds for thre^ ^nd fovr-year-olds.— HeaCs^ twice rotnd tb# 

Co«ne. 
Lord Stamford's gr. f. Olivetta, by Hit Oliver^ 3 yrs old, 78t. lib. . . 1 1 

Mr. Benson's b. c. Master Harry, 3 yrs oki, 7st. 2 2 

Two and 3 to 1 on 01ivetta« 

THURSDAY.— Sweepitakea of lOgs. each, with: 50gs. added, for 
horses, &c.— >lVo-in)le heats. 
Lord Oxford's b. c. Tinker Barnes, by Governor, 3 yrs old, 

6st.7lb 1 1 

Mr. Egerton's b. h. Cestiian, by Gobanna, aged, Qst. 2lb 2 2 

Hon. C. Jenkinson s b. f. by Meteor^ 4 yrs old, 7st. 12lb. (fell) , . 3 dis. 
Tinker Barnes the favourite ; af^er tbe beat, 2 to 1 he won. 



LEICESTER MEETING. 

\V£DN£8DAY, September l6.^ — ^Tbe Belvoir Stakes of 5g8. eavh,^ 
with 20gs. add«J> for hikB(ers<-^Twe-mile lieats.^-^-Nine sub- 
•eribers. 

Xfr. Dyotfs br. f. Jktsy, by Orhsde^ 4 yrs old, lOst. 12lb. 1 1 

Mr. T. A. Smith's ch. g. by Johnny, aged, 13st 2 2 

Seireu to 4 aod 2 to 1 ou Betsy. 

The Gold Cup, value lOOgs. with lOgs. in specie, for all ages. — ^Foitp- 

mile beats. 

Colonel WiMtains*s br, e. Worcester, by Sir Oliver, 4 yra^ 78t. lOlb.. . 1 

Mr. AstWs cb. c. Magic, by Sorcerer, 4 yrs oKI, 7st. lOlb 2 



lb. 



3 



Mr. Fktcoer*6 ch. f . iEsenkipiui^d yrS oM, ^st. I 

Major WiJs9n'« ch. b. Jimipet', rngsA, 9st. 5lb » ^ 4 

Mr. Eaton's b. c. by Sorcerer, 4 yrs old, 7st lOlb 5 

Five and 6 to 4 on Magic, ai^d 5 to i agst Worcester. 

Seventy Pounds for horses, Sac, — ^Two-mile beats. 

Gen. Grosvenor's ch. f. Defiance, by Gauntlet, 3 yrs old, 7st 1 1 

Mr. Faulkner's ch; g. €otistitution> 4 yrs >o4d, fst. 12ib. 3 2 

Duke of Rutland's bi. f. Thalestris, 3 yrs old, fst 2- lir. 

Four and 5 to 1 ou Defiance, 

THURSDAY.— Tbe Quorndon Stakes of lOgs. eacb> for horses, &c. 
128t. — ^Gentlemen riders.— Three qiiles. 

Mc, Dyott^s b. m. Fanny, by Gayman, 6 yrs old I 

JUx. T. A. Smith's cti. g. by Johnny, aged . , . ^ 2 

Six and 7 to 4 on Fanny. 

Tbe Subscription Purse of 9Qgs. for all ages.-^'VMir liiles. 

Mr. Astley's br. ni. Elve, by Sorcerer, 5 yrs old, 8st. 8lb. 1 

Mr. Snence's ch. h. Mr. Gundy, aged, gst. 5)b 2 

iiw Fletcher's cb. g. ^sculapius, 6 yrs old, gst. lib. (bolted) 3 

Col. Cruiiip's cb. f. Tippitywicbet, 4 yrs old, 7st. 8lb. (fell lame) .... 4 

Five and 6 to 4 on Elve. 

Seventy Pounds for horseB> &e.— rFomr-mk heals. 

Mr. Astley's ch. c. Mitgic, by Satt^rer^ 4 yiB oid» ftt 1 1 

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Mr. Sis8on*s di. f. FoMy, 3 yrs oM, Jst 3lb 4 2 

Mr. Stevens's b. h. Hopeless, 5 yrs old, 8st. 3lb 2 3 

Mr. Faulkner's cb. g. Constitution, 6st. 12tb 3 dis 

Mr. Jones's br. b. Orange- Sqneezer, 5 yrs old, 8st. 3W> 5 dis 

Six to 4, and after the beat, 3 to 1 on Magic. 

Duke of Rutland's br. f. Efizabetb, by Orvittc, recwved forfeit from 
Sir W. W. Wynne's br.f. by Meteor, dam by Higbflyer, 8st. 2lh. cacb, 
one mile «nd a balf, lOO^s. b. ft. 



I/INCQLN MEETING. 

Wednesday, September i6.--^Tbe King's Plate of lOOgs. fe^ 

four and five-years-old mares.— Two-mile beats. 
Duke of Hamilton's bay, Basbful, by fieniogbroag^tiy 4 yrp old, 

7st. 8lb. (C. Marson) 1 1 

Mr. Uppleby's bay, Harriet, 4 yrs old, ^st. 6lb .,..,..•*. 5 -^ 

Lord Scarbrougb's brown, Henrietta* 5 yrs old^ Oat. UH)^ » . , . . . 2 3 

Mr. Jones's bay. Variety, 4 yrs old, 8s*t. lib 3 4 

Mr. E. L. Hodgson*s cbesnut, First-Fly^ 5 yrs old, 8st. 7lb., . . « . 6 S 

Mr. Harnew's bay, by Driver, 4 yrs old, 7st. \ lib. 4 dr. 

Five and 6 to 4 agst Variety ; after the beat, l)etting mucb tbe same.— 
Tbe first beat was a very good one, and won by about a necif. 3 for 
tbe second beat. Variety made severe play, but Basbful won easy at 
tbe end. — At tbe close of tbe race. Variety was very lame on ber off 
fore leg. 

THURSDAY.— Fifty Pounds for all ages.— Two-ralle beats. 
Duke of Hamilton's b. f. Basbfut, 4 yrs old, 7st. 9fo. (C. Mamon) . . 1 1 

Mr. J. Grant's ch.c. Benedict, 4 yrs old, 78t. 6lb ...^ 2 

Two to I4 and after tbe beat^ 5 to 1 on Bafthftil. 

FRIDAY. — Seventy Gaioeas for all agfe8.-^'rwo-iiitk beats. 
Mr. Uppleby's b. f. Harriet^ by Ddlpini, 4 yrs old, 8ft. (J. Gar- 
butt) 2 11 

Mr.Acred's cb. f. Diana, 4 yrs old, Sst^lb 12 4 

Mr. Harnew's b. f. by Driver, 4 yrs old, 8st ; ..^ 33 3 

Mr. E. L! Hodgson's cb. m. First-Fly, 5 yrs old> Sst 5 4 2 

Mr. King's cb. c. BuUy, 4 yrs old, 8st 4 5 5 

Diana tbe favourite 3 after tbe first beat, 6 to 4 she won j after tbe 

second beat» 2 Co 1 on Haniet. 

Tbe Gold Cup, by twenty*one Subscriliers of 5gs. eaeh, for borseSj, S^c. 

Two- mile beats. 
Mr. Buckle's b.f. Net tlebam-Lass, by Alexander tbe Great, 3 yrs 

old, 68t. lib. 2 1 I 

Mr. R. Marsh's b. f. by Orville, 3 yrs old, 6»t. lib 122 

Mr. C. Uppleby*^ b. f. Mantua, by Sancbo, 3 yi*9 old, Ost, lib. 

(came in first, but crossed in running) dis. 

Manttia the favourite) liter tbe first beat, 3 to 1 on Nettlebam-Lass. 

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12 THE KACING CALENDAR. 

DONCASTER MEETING, YORKSHIRE. 

lyrONDAY, September 21. The Fitzwilliam Stakes of lOgs. cacb, 

'vitb 20gs. added, for all ages. — The last mile and a half. 

Mr. GIover*s cb. c. Slender Billy, by Young Woodpecker, dam by 
Walnut, 4 yrs old, gst. gib. (W. Peirse) 1 

Mr. Riddeirs b. c. X, Y, Z, by Haphazard, 4 yrs old, 8st. gib % 

Lord Darlington's b. c. Amadis de Gaul, 4 yrs old, Sst. g\h 3 

The following also started, but were not placed: 

Sir B. Graham's gr. h. Sledmere, 5 yrs old, pst. lib 

Mr. Garforth's gr. c. Brother to Oiseau, by Caoiitlus, 2 yrs old, 6st.. . 

Mr. Scaife*s b. c. Salamanca, by Sancho, 2 yrs old, 6st., ^ . . . Q 

Duke of Leeds's gr. c. Philippic, 4 yrs old, Sst. Qlb 

Mr Hewett's b. f. Cwm, by Dick Andrews, 3 yrs old, Sst Q 

Sir H Nelthorpe's ch. c. by Sancho, dam by Mercury, 3 }TS old, Sst. . . 

Lord Fitzwilliam's br. h. Amadis, 5 yrs old, 9st. lib 

Mr. Lambton's b. g. Legerdemain, 4 yrs old, Sst. Q\h Q 

Two to 1 agst Amadis de Gaul, and 3 to 9 agst Slender Billy. — A good 

race. 

The St. Leger Stakes of 25gs. each, for thre^-years-old colts, Sst. 2lb. 

fillies, Sst. — ^The St. Leger Course. — Fifty-seven subscribers. 
Mr. Rob's b. c. Otterington, by Golnmpus, dam by Expectation, out 

of Maida's dam (R. Johnson), «... 1 

{iord Stratbmore's b. c. by Remembraqcerj out of Beatrice (T. Good- 

isson) ^ 

Mr. Beckwith's br. c. Herrington, by Remembrancer, out of Fair 

Charlotte (J. Jackson) •■ ^ 

Tiie following also started, but were not placed : 

Duke of Hamilton's b. c. Master Richard, by Dick Andrews • . O 

Mr. N. B. Hodgson's ch. c. Skip, by Stride 

Lord Scarbrough's b. c. Catton, by Golumpus . . . . « 

Mr. J. L. Kaye's b. c. Fitz-Oliver, by Sir Oliver 

Puke of Hamilton's br. c. Pioughboy, by Governor 

Mr. Boulton's ch. c. Sir Hedworth, by Williamson's Ditto 

Mr. Uppleby's b. c. Orion, by Sancho. ^ .' 

Mr. Harrison's ch. f. Patalini, by Dick Andrews 

Mr. T. Sykes's b. c. Young Delpini, by Delpini 

Duke of Leeds's ch. c. Tarquin, by Stripling. 

Mr. Hewett's b. f. Manuella, by Dick Andrews 

Lord Darlington's b. c. Whitburn, by Firelock 

Mr. Wilson's b. c. Wisdom, by Sir Solomon ...•.«. 

Mr. Price's b. c. Ambo, by Meteor or Diamond 

Mr. Garforth's gr. c. Trajan, by Stamford Q 

Mr Garforth's gr. f Marciana, by Stamford 

Mr. T Duncombe's b. c. Coldstream, by Evander 

Sir B. Graham's b. c. Commissary, by Brown-Bread 

Mr. J. Hebden's ch. c. Fox, by Hyacinthus * 

Mr. Has^lehurst's b. c. Smfurt^ by Staveley •«•».•#.• 

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Mr. Oaseoigne*s b. c. Kid, bj' Sancho, (fell in the first mile, when run- 
ning gallantly either third or fourth) O 



3 to 1 agst Manuella. 
9 to 2 ags( Catton. 

5 to 1 agst Whitburn. 

6 to 1 agst Herri iigton. 

9 to 1 agst Lord Stratbmore*s 
colt. 



100 to 8 agst Ambo. 
100 to 6 agst Master Richard. 
100 to 5 agst Ploiigh»)oy, 
200 to 7 agst Kid, and 
1000 to 10 were betted agst Ot- 
tering ton. 



A most excellent ,9tart, and a very beautiful rhce to the spectators ; 
^yery borse, excepting Smart and l^k\, who fell, contested for tbe 
Stakes, until tbey had about three distances to run, when Herrington, 
Otterington, and Lord Stratbmore's colt, appeared in front, and after a 
very severe stniggle, the race was won by about half a bead, and 
Herritigton was oeatby Lord Stratbmore's colt by nearly a head. — Her- 
rington and Otterington made severe play^ — and every rider exertad 
his uto^ost skill to bring his horse home to the best advantage, and gave 
universal satisfaction. — Run in three minutes and thirty-one seconds. 

The Produce Stakes of lOOgs. each, h. ft. for four-year-olds. — ^Four 

miles. — Nine subscrihei*s. 
Sir M. M. Sykes's br. c. Sir Malagagi, by Sir Peter, 8st. 12lb. (J. 

Shepherd) : 1 

Lord Milton's ch. c. Cid, by Sancho, 8st. 4lb. (W. Clift) 2 

Mr. T. Sykes's b. c. Epperston, by Delpini, B%K, 7lb 3 

Six to 4 on Sir Malagagi. — Won very easy. — Epperston was purchased 

by Sir M. M. Sykes. . 

The King's Parse of lOOgs. for four-year-olds and upwards. — ^Fow 

4xiiles. 

Bir. Glover's cb. c. Slender Billy, by Young Woodpecker, 4 yrs old, 

• lOst. 41b. (W. Peirse). 1 

Sir E.Smith's bl. c. Navigator, by Hambletonian, 4 yrs old, lOst. 41b. 

(B. Smith) 3 

Sir M. M. Sykes's b. c. Epperston, 4 yrs old, lOst. 4lb 3 

Mr. Cock's ch. c. Last Minstrel, 4 yrs old, lOst. 4lb 4 

Five to 4 agst Slender Billy, and 2 to 1 agst Navigator.-— Won easy. 

Match for lOOgs. — ^Two miles. 
Duke of Hamiltqn's b^ c. Udolpbo, by Sorcerer, dam by PotSo's, 

8st. 3lb. (B. Smith). , I 

Mr. Hewett's ch. c. by Sancho, dfim by Moorcock, 8st. 3lb 2 

Two to 1 on Udolpbo. — A good race. 

Match forSOOgs. h.ft. — St. Leger Course. 

Mr.Riddell's b. c. X, Y, Z, by Haphazard, 8st. 3lb walked over, 

Mr. Hipkins's ch. c. Cannons, by Yellow Blossom, 8st pd- 

TUESDAY, September 22 —The Prince's Stakes of 25gs. each, with 
25gs. added, for four-year-olds. — Four miles. — ^Four subscribers. 
Lord Darlington's b. c. Amadis de Gaul, by Hambletonian, 8st. 7lb. 

(S.Chifncy) 1 

pqke of Leeds's b. f. Bisbecca, by Sir Solomon, Sst. 4lb; 2 

Even betting.— ?A good race. 

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14 THE RACING CALENDAR. 

Sweepstakes of 20gs. eacb, for two-years-old colts, 8st. 2ib. fit&s^ 8st 

Two-year-Olds' Course. — Seven subscribers. 
BIr. Garforth's gr. c. Brother to Olseau, by Caroillus, dam by Ruler 

(B. Smitb) 1 

Lord Fitzwilliam's b. f. by Sir Paul, out of Evelina ■. . . 2 

5ir B. Grabam's gr. f. by Evander, dam by Expectation • . fell 

Three to I on Mr. Garfortfa*s colt.— -Won wry easy* 

Tire Corporation Purse of 50l. for maiden horses, &c. — ^Two-Rwle beats. 
I>iike of Hamilton's br. c. Piougbboy, bv Governor, 3 yrs old, 

6st. 7lb. (C. Marson) *. 1 1 

Hr. Uewett'sch. e. by Sa»cbo> dam by Moorcock, 3 yrs old, 69t, 

7lb. (Stakes 33gs.) 7 2 

Lofd Milton's h. c. Euryalus, by Lcnrd Darlington's Trafalgar, 3 

yrs oUI, 6i»t. 7lb 2 3 

Mr. Clark's cb. c. Tpfiios, by Dirk Andrews, 3 yrs old, 6st. Tib.. . 4 4 

Lionl Scarbrotigb's U c. by Sir Solomon, 3 yrs old, 6st. 7ll> • • ^ ^ 

Sir G. Armytage's b. e. by Sliottle, 3 vrs eld 3 6 

Mr. Hebden's cl*. c. Fox, by Hyacintnin, 3 yrs old, 6st. 7ll> ^ 7 

Sir B. Graham's b. c. Commissary, by Brown-Bread, 3 yrs old, 

6st.7lb , ...6 dr. 

Mr. Mackley's ch. f. by Hyacintbus 3. yrs old, 6st, 4lb, dis. 

Seven to 4 agst Plougbboy > after the beat,. 2 to 1 on Flougbboy. — ^Tbe 
first was a very fine heat, and the second was one of tbe ilneat ever rua. 
Won by half a head. 

Match for 200gs.<-^Tlie St. Leger Coarse. 
Wajof Wilson'^s hi I Spotless, by Walton* onC of Bffeb|M!s ism, 8bt 

(W.Cltft) ! 

Sir W. Gerard's b. c. Don Rodrigo, by Windle, out of Laily ^imb, 

8st 3lb. (W.Peirse) *• 2 

Seven to 4 and 2 to 1 oo Don Rodrigo.— A good race. 

WEDNESDAY.— The second year of the renewed Doncaster Stakes 
of KOgs. each, with 20gs. added, for all i^es^ — four Biil«s.— Fourteen 
subscribers. 
Mr» T. Duncombe'^s b. c. Langold,by Stamford, oulof Cottager^adam, 

3 yrs old,^6st I 

Sir M. M. Sykes*s br. f. Scancataldi, by Sancbo, 3 yrs old, 6bt 2 

Duke of Leeds's cb. b. Mowbray, aged, 8st. lOlb 3 

Mr. Garforth's cb. f. by Caroillus, out of Helen, 3 yrs old, 6st 4 

Duke of Hamilton's br. c. S(juib, by Sorcerer, 4 yrs old, 7st. 7II* ^ 

Six to 4 agst Mowbray, 6 to 4 agst Squib, and 5 to 1 agst Langold. 
Won easy. — Run in eight minutes and two second*. 

The Giiscoigue Stakes of lOOgs. each, 30gs. ft. for tbree-year-^olds. — ^Tbe 

St. Leger Course. — Eight sabscribers. 
Mr. Beckwith's b. c. Herri ngton, by Remembrancer, out of Fair Char- 
lotte, 8st. 5lh. (W. Peirse) 1 

I^rd Scarbrpugh's b. c. Catton, by Golumpus, 8st. 5\h 2 

Tbifee to I on Herringtati. — Won easy. 

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THE RACING CALENDAR, 15 

Sweepstakes of 50g9. each, 20gs. ft. for four-year-olds.— The St. Leger 

Course.— *Four subscribers. 
Mr. T. Duncombe*s b. f. Phantom, by Hambletonian, dam. by Preci- 
pitate, Sst. 4lb. (T. Shepherd) I 

Duke of Leeds's b. f. Rebecca, by Sir Solomon, Sst. (W. CUft) 2 

Three to 1 on Rebecca. — A very fine race. 

The Gold Cup, vahie J25gs. for all ages.^-Four miles. 
Mr. Glover's ch. c. Slender Blily, by Young Woodpecker, 4 yrs old, 

7st. 71b. (S. Barnard) . I 

Mr. Hewett*s b. f. Cwm, by Dick Andrews, 3 yrs old, 6st 3 

Mr. Riddell*$ b, c, X, 2!, R, by Haphazard, 4 yrs old, 7s t. 7lb « . 3 

Mr. Wilson's gr. c. Viscount, Brother to Baron, 4 yrs okl, 7st. Tlb^ , , 4 

Mr. Garforth's gr. c Trajan, by iStamford, 3 yrs old, 6st • . « 5 

Sir H. Neltborpe's ch. c. by Sancho, dam by Mercury, 3 yrs, 6st. . • « 6 
Mr. T. Duncombe*s b« c. Coldstream, by Evander, 3 yrs old, 6st . . . • f 

Mr. Hasslehurst's hi c. Smart, by Staveley , 3 yrs old, 6st ^ 8 

Five tio 2 agst Visconnt, the same agst Xy Y, Z, 3 to 1 agst Sltnder 

Billy, and 5 to 1 agst Cwm. — Won easy« — Run in seven minutes and 

fifty-eight seconds.. 

THURSDAY. — Sweepstakes of 20gs. eaclv with 20g8. added, fiwr 
three- years-old fillies, Sst. 2lb. each. — St. Leger Course.— Thirteen sub- 
scribers. 
Mr. Hewett*s bay, ManueUa, by Dick Andrews, out of Maodane, by 

PotSo's <W. Peirse) , I 

Mr. Watt's bay, Mother Bunch, by Dick Andrews (J. Jackson) .... !I 

Sir G. Armytage*s bay. Pope Joan, by Shuttle 3 

Mr. Garforth^s grey, Marciana, by Stamford •...••• ^4 

Lord Fitzwilliani's chesriut, by Stamford, out of Wryneck .....•,• 5 

Mr. Barnett's bay, Sarissa^ by Delpini, out of Slasher ^ 

Mr. T. Duncombe's bay, by StamfonI, out of Jemima ;. 7 

Mr. G. Crompton's bay, Portia, by Beningbrough ••.««»• H 

Seven to 4 and 2 to 1 on Manueila.^-Won easv* 

Sweepstakes of lCX)gs. ^ach, h. ft. colts, Sst. 2lb. — ^The last mile.-^FcHir 

subscribers. 
Mr. Wilson's b. c. Wisdom, by Sir Solomon, out of Totterella, by 

Dnngannon (F. Buckle) ^ I 

Mr. T. Duncombe*s b. c. Hermit, by Chance , 2 

Five to 2 and 3 to 1 on Wisdom.— Won easy. 

Subscription of 25gs. each, for horses, &c, — Four miles. — Seven sub- 
scribers. 
Duke of Leeds*s ch. b. Octavian, by Stripling, 5 yrs old, Sst. 5lb. (W. 

Clift) I 

Sir M. M. Sykes's b. c. Sir Malagagi, 4 yrs, 7st. gib. (Mark Noble) . . 2 

Lord Darlington's br. c. Amadis de Gaul, 4 yrs old, 7st. plb 3. 

,Mr. T. Duncombe's b. f. Phantom, 4 yrs oW, 7st. 5lb 4 

Six to 4 agst Sir Malagagi, 2 to 1 agst Amadis de Gaul, and 5 to 2 agst 
Octavian. — A fine race, but wpn easy at the end.— -Run in eight tid" 
BUtes and three seconds. 

Th# 



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l6 THE RACmC CALENDAR. 

The lOOl. Pnrse for three and four-year-olds. — ^T«ro-iiiile heat^ 
lir. Acred's gr. c. Viscount, Brother to Baron, by Stamford, 3 

yrs old, 78t. v^ht (R. Johnson) 1 3 i 

Mr. Lambtoii's b. g. Legerdemain^ by Shuttle, 4 yrs old, Sst.^lb. 

(Stakes 60g8.) 5 1 2 

Sir K. SuHth^s bl. c. Navigator, by Hambletoniau, 4 yrs old, 

Sst. 7lb 7 5 3 

Mr. N. 3> Hodg8ou*8 ch. c. Skip, hy Stride, 3 yrs old, Jst. 5lb. ..424 

If r. T. Duncombe's b. c. Hermit, 3 yrs old, 7st. 3lb .6 4 5 

Mr. Kaye's b. c. Fitz-Oliver, by Sir Oliver, 3 yrs old, 7st 3lb 8 8 6 

Mr. Ga$coigne*s b. c. Kid, by Sancbo^ 3 yrs old, 7^^. 5lb 5 6 dri 

Mr. T. Syke3*s b. c. Young Delpini> 3 yrs old, 78t. 3lb 10 7 dr. 

Mr. Wilson's b. c. Wisdom, 3 yrs old, 7st. 5lb 2 dr. 

Mr« Boullou*s cb. c. Sir Hedwortb, 3 yrs old, 7st. 3lb 3 dr. 

five to 2 agst Kid, 3 to 1 agst Viscount, 6 to 1 agst Skip, 6 to 1 against 
. Navigator,, and 6 to 1 agst Fitz-Oliver j atter the first beat^ 5 to 4 on 
the field > after the second beat, 7 to 4 on Viscount.— 'Won easy. 

Match for lOOgs. h. ft. 8st. each. — St. Leger Course. 

Mr. Hewett^s b. f. Cwm, l)y Dick Andrews walked oVcr. 

Sir Wm., Wynne's gr. f. Persian Maid • pJ* 

Two Matches, viz. — Lord Darlington's Cwrw, agst Mr. Clifton's Lle- 
wellyn J and Mr. Hewctt's Manuella, agst Mr. £. L. Hodgson's b. f. by 
Shuttle — were both off by consent. 



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OSWESTRY MEETING, SHROPSHIRE. 

ONDAY, September 3!.— The Silver Cup, value 501. for hunters. 

' Two-mile heats. 

MnT. Lloyd's br. m. 5 yrs old, 1 Ist. 8lb 23 11 

Mr. Rogers's br. f. Oswestry-^Lass, 4 yrs old, 1 1st 3 1 2 2 

Mr. J. NiccoU's bl. nri. Sultana, 5 yrs old, 1 1st. 8lb 1233 

Mr^Mytton'sb. g. 6yrsold, 12st 4 4 dr. 

TITESDAY.— The Silver Cup, value 50l. for horses, &c. list.— two- 
iDile heats. 
Mr. Dyott'sb.m. Fanny, by Gay man, Gyrsofd, received lOgs. 

Fifty Pounds for three and four-year-olds. — ^Two-mile heats. 
Sir W. W. Wynne's b. c. Manikin, by Johnny, 3 yrs, 7st. 7lb. ..121 

Mr. Benson's b. c. Master Harry, 3 yrs old, 7st. 7lb 2 1 2 

Mr. Shawe'sr b. f. Vitula, 4 yrs old, Sst. 2lb 5 3 dr. 

Sir T. Stanley's b. c. Clan-Alpine, 4 yrs old, Sst. 7lb 6 4 dr. 

Mr. Cholmondeley's b. f. by Beningbrough, 4 yrs, Sst. 7lb 4 5 df* 

Mr. Dyott's br. f. Betsy, 4 yrs old, 8st. 7lb.. . , 3 (ir. 

Mr. Munsey's b. f. by Meteor, 4 yrs old, Sst. 2lb dis. 

WEDNESDAY.— Fifty Pounds for horses, &c.— Four-mile heats. 

Sir W. W. Wynne's b. c. by Diamond, 3 yrs old, 6st. 3lb 1 ^ 

Mr. Sbawe's br. g. Hambleton Jack, 6 yrs old, Sst. Qlb 2 2 

Sir T. Stanley's b. c. Clan-Alpine, 4 yrs old, Sst * 3 3 

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-fivreepstakes of 5gs. each, with 20gs. added, for horses, &c. — One-mile 

heats. 

Mr. Shawe's b. f. Vitula, by Diamond, 4 yrs old, lOst. 7lh 1 1 

Mr. Fletcher's- br. c. Black- Boy, 4 yrs old, ]Ost. 7lb 2 2 

Mr. Cbolmondeley's b. f. by Beninj^brongh, 4 vrs old, lOst. 7lb. . . 3 3 

Sir W. W. Wynne's b. g. Owen Glendowr, 5 yrs old, 1 1st. 5lb. . , 4 dr. 

Mr. firidgeroan*s b. g. Stilton, 6 vrs old, 1 Ist. 12lb 5 dr. 

Mr. Heber*s b. g. by Old Tatt, aged, 128t 6 dr. 



NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING. 

jyjONDAY, September 28. Tiie Trial Stakes of lOgs. each, for 

all ages.-— Ditch Mile. — Ninesiibscribers. 
Duke of Rutland's b. f. Sorcery, by St)rcerer, .4 yrs old, 8st. gib. (S. 

Barnard) 1 

Mr. Shakespear s br, h. Chester, aged, Qst. 6lb. 2 

Mr. Ladbroke's ch. c. Hamlet, 4 yrs old, 8st. j^lb 3 

The following also started, but were not placed : 

Lord Jersey's b. h. Invalid, aged, 9st. 61b O 

Mr, Payne's ro. c. Mountebank, 4 yrs old, Bst. Qll).- O 

Lord Foley's br. h. by Mr. Teazle, 5 yrs old, gst. 2lb O 

Lord Stawell's ch. f. Mockbird, 4 yrs old, 8st. pib O 

Mr. Firth's ch. c. Pupil, 3 yrs old, 7st. gib O 

Six to 5 on Sorcery, 6 to 4 agst Mountebj^nk, and 44o 1 agst Chester.— 

Won cleverlv. 

Match for lOOgs. — ^Two-year-Olds' Course. 
Mr. Payne's ch. f. by Selim, out of Zoraida, 2 yrs old, 7st. lllb. (F. 

Buckle) 1 

Gen. Grosvenor's b. c. Lazyboots, 3 yrs old, 8st. 7lb 2 

Five and 6 to 4 on Lazyboots. • 

Match for lOOgs. — ^Two-year-Olds' Course. 
Mr. Shakes|»ear*s b. c. Scrub, (late Mr. Edward) by Eagle, 8st. 8lb. 

(S. Chifney) I 

Duke of Grafton's b. f. Web, by Waxy, 8st. 2lb 2 

Even betting, and 6 to 5 on Web. 

Sweepstakes of 200gs. each, h. ft. for three-years-ohl colts, 8st. 7lh. fil- 
lies, 8st. 3lb.— Across the Flat. — Eight subscribers. 

Sir J. Shelley's ch. c. Comus, by Sorcerer (F. Buckle) 1 

Lord Stawell's br. c. Cato, by Saocho * 2 

Duke of Grafton's b. c. Woeful, Brother to Whalebone 3 

The following also started, but were not place<l : 

Duke of Grafton's b. c. Joe Miller, by Waxy O 

Lord G. H. Cavendish's b. c. Handel, by Waxy 

Mr. Andrew's ch. f. Calyba, by Sorcerer .• . ... 

Two to 1 agst Cato, and 11 to 5 agst Comus. — A good race. 

Sweepstakes of lOO^s^s. each, h. ft. — Abingdon Mile. 
Duke of Grafton's b. f. Pope Joan, by Waxy, 8st, lib. (T. Goodisson) 1 

Lord Foley's ch. c. Bodkio^ by Trumpatori 8st. 7lb , • 2 

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Mr. Thornliiirs to. c. Aquarius, by Quiz, 8st. lOlb .T77. . 77i . 3 

Gen. Grosvenor'o cb. f. Gnadiaua, 8st pd, 

Five and 6 to 4 agst Bodkin, 7 to 4 agst Aquarinsj Hud's to 2 agstPopv 

Joan. 

Sweetwtttkes of lOOgs. each, b. ft. 88t.«-»-YearUng Coarse. 
Lord F. G. Osborne*s b* f. July, by Waxy, out of Drowsy, received for* 
feit from Mr. Payne*s cb. f. by Selim, out of Zoraida | and Hr. Yansit- 
tart*8 br. f. by Selini, dam by Delpini, out of Caprice. 

Second Year.— The renewal of the Subscriptioa of 5gs. each, for horses* 

&c.— -Beacon Course— -Bighteen subscribers. 
Duke of Rutlaml'd b. o. Grimalkin, by Chance, 4 yn old, 

78t. 7lb. ^ « . . walked over, 

Duke of Rutland's Grimalkin, 7st. 12IH. received forfeit from Sir J. 
ShelieyN Phantom, 8st. 12lb. Across the Flat, 200g<s. 

Duke of Rntlamrs Elizabeth, by Orville, 6st. re(^v«d 70^s. from 
liord G. H. Cavendish's b. c. by Tronipator, out of Pagoda, 8BC.4lb. Ah. 
M. 200gs. b. ft. 

Duke of Rutland's Sorcery, 8st. 4lb. received 70g9. from Sir M. M. 
Sykes's Leon Forte, 8st. Ab. M. 200gs. h. ft. 

Lord Kiunaitd*8 cb. c. by 8i»ncho, out of Darling, received forfeit 
from Lord O^^ord's b. c. Daffodil, (dead) Sat. 5lh. each, Acroea the Flat, 
200g8. 

TUJESDAY.—Match for 200gt.— Across the Flat. 
Mr. Shakespear*s bl. c. Hydaspes, by Trumpator, 8st. 7lb. (S. Clufney} 1 
Mr. Andrew's bl. c. Trot»lionin8, by Sorcerer, 8st. Tib. .,"...*.».,.. 3 

Thirteen to 6 on Hydaspes. 

Second Year.— One-third of a Subscription of 25g8. each, for four-years' 
old cofts, 8st. lOib. fillies, 8st. 7lb. — Ditch-in. — ^Twelve subscribers. 

Sir C. Bunbury's b. c. Rival, by Whiskey (F. Buckle) . , 1 

Major Wilson's b. c. Bolter, by Walton 2 

Three to 1 on Rival. 

Mr. Shakespear's Jolter, by Trumpator, received SOgs. from M^jor 
Wilson^s Bolter, 8st. 71b. each, T. Y. C. lOOgs. h. fi. 

Mr. Shakespear's Jolter, 7^t. 12lb. i-ecerved lOgs. from Major Wilson*5 
Baiter, 8s t. 7lb. T. Y. C. ibogs. h. ft. 

WEDNESDAY.*-Match for 500gs.— Two -year- Ohk* Conrses 

Mr. Craven's br. c. Tooley, by Walton,, »st. 7lb. (W, Amohl) 1 

Mr. TbomhiU's ro. c. Aquarius, by Quiz, 8st. 7lb. «... 2 

Three to 1 on Tooley. — Won in a canter. 

Fifty Guineas, for four-year-olds and upwards.— B. C. 
Lord G. H. Cavendish's b. h. Fiorival, by Shuttle, 6 yrs old, dst. 11 lb. 

(W. Arnold) I 

Sir C. Bunbury's b. c. Rival, 4 yn old, 7st. 4lb • 2 

Six and 7 to 4 on Rival. — A line race. 

Sweepstakes of lOOgs. each, 8st. 4lb/-^Rowley Mile. 
Duke of Grafton's b. c. Woeful, by Waxy, 3 yrs 6ld (T. Go«^dis6oa). . 1. 

Jtfr. Craven's br. c. Tooley, 3 yrs old .... ', ^•0... ^ 

Mr«. 



Tim tlACmd CAliSm>AR. 1^ 

Mr. Payne's t^. c. 1Vfoii»tebdnk| 4 yn ok) . « .*,. TT7« * • . • 3 

£iev«a to 8 on Woeful, J to 4 agaimt Iboky^ and 5 to 1 against Moiin« 

tebank. 

One-third of a Subacriptioa of 21gs. each, for three-year»-old colts, 8st* 
9lb. flUies, Sst. 61b>^Ditcb->in.-^Fifteea subscriber^. 

Duke of 6rafton*s b. f. Pope Joen, by Waxy (T. Goodisson) 1 

Mr. Andrew's cb. f. Calyba^ by Sorcerer. ...« • 27 

Mr. Wilson's cb, f. Lady Sophia/ by Sancho 3 

Xiord Lowther*8 br. c. Rosinante, by Sancho • 4 

Five to 4 on Pope Joan, and 2 to 1 agst Lady Sophia. — ^Won easy. 

Mr. Shakespear's Tumbler, by Trumpator, Sst. jWa. received l<50gs, 
from Mr. Payne's Crispin, 8st. Across the Fiat, 200gs. 

THURSDAY.-^Tbe Kin^s Purse of lOOgs. fdr fbur-year^ds waA 
upwards.'— Beacon Course. 
Mr. Ladbroke's ch. c. Hamlet, by Hambletonian> 4 yrs old, lOst. 4lb. 

(W.Arnold) I 

Sir C. Bunbury's b. c. Rival, 4 yrs old, lOst. 4lb • . • ^ . 2 

Mr. Payne's ro. c. Mountebank, 4 yrs old, lOst. 4lb 3 

Mr. Shakespear's bf. h Chester, aged, 12st. 2lb -. 4 

Tbirteen to 8 on Rival, 7 to 2 agst Hamlet, 7 to 1 agst Chester, and lO 

to I agst Mountebank.— A fine race. 
Match for 200gs. — ^Two-year-Olds* Course. 
Lord O. H. Cavendish's br. f. Barrossa, by Vermin, 4 yis old, 7st. 3lb« 

(Mallett) i t 

Mr. Tbombili's b. f. Historia, 3 yrs old, 6st. I^lb 2 

Even betting. 

Match for lOOgs.-^Two-ycar-Oids* Coarse. 
Mr. Shakespear's b. c. Scrub, by Bagle, 4 yrs old, gst. <S. Chifoey) . . 1 

Lord Sackville's b. c. by Young Eagle, 3 yrs old, 7st. 9IU, • . • 2 

Five to 4 on Young EagW. 

Match for 300gs.-— Abingdon Mile. 
Lord G. H. Cavendish's b. c. Bethlem Gaber, by Sorcerer, J&t. 1 lib.. . 1 

Mr. Shakespear's bl. c. Hydaspes, 8st • . . « 2 

Eleven to 8 on Hydaspes. 

Match for lOOgs. — ^Two-year-Olds' Course. 

Lord Foley's ch. c. Bodkin, by Trumpator, Sst. 7lb O 

General Grosvenor^s b. c. Lazyboots, by Young Drone, 7st. 71b O 

Ran a dead heat. — ^Threeand 4 to 1 on Bodkin. 

The Town Purse of 501. for three -years-old colts, Sst. 7lb. fillies, 8»t. 
3lb. — Ditch -in. — ^Tbe late Mr. Perram directed his Executors to pay 
30gs. to the winner of this Purse. 
Lord G. H. Cavendish's br. f. Sister to Black Diamond, by Stamford 

(W.Arnold) I 

Sir C. Bunbury's b. c. Scout, by Sorcerer 2 

General Grosvenor^s ch. f. Ouadiana, by Quiz 3 

Mr. Blake's b. c. by Whiskey, out of Witch of Endot^'s dam 4 

Six to 4 on tlie Sister to Black Diamood.. 

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Lord G. H. CaveudUh*8 hr. c. Meny-^o-round, by Trampator, re* 
ceived forfeit fr<Mn Mr. Shakespeare's Jolter^ 8sc. 5lh. each^ T. Y. C* 
SOOgs. 

FRIDAY.— Match for 200gs.— Tivo-ycar-OWs' Course. 
Lord Foley's b. h. Osprey, by Eagle, 6yrs old, Sst. 7lb. (W. Clift) . . 1 

Lord Jei-sey's h. h. Anthonio, 5 yrs old, 8st. 2lb 2 

• Eleven to 10 on Osprey. — Won easy. 

Match for 500gs. — Abingdon Mile. 
Mr. Prendcrgast's b. c. Skirmisb, by Sorcerer, 8st. 7lb. (T. Goodisson) 1 

Mr. Baring's br. c. by Totteridge, 8st. 7lb 2 

Three Rwi 4 to 1 on Skirmish. 

SATURDAY.— Duke of Grafton's b. c. Joe Miller, by Waxy, 8st. 7lb. 
received 40gs. from General Grosvenor's Lazyboots, 7^^* 4lb. Ditch-in, 
lOOgs. 



CHIPPENHAM MEETING, WILTS. 

T^UESDAY, September 22. ^Fif ty Pounds for all ages.— Two-mile 

•*■ heats. j 

Mr. Biggs's b. f. Dorina, by Gobanna, 4 yrs old, 88t. lib 1 I. ,t 

Mr. C. Day's ch. m. Matilda, aged, Qst. lib 2 (it. i 

WEDNESDAY.— Fifty Pounds for all ages.— Two-mile heats. 

Mr. Day's ch. m. Matilda, by Ambrosio, aged, Qst 4 1 I 

Mr. Radclyffe's.b.h.SmaUhope8, 6yrs old, Qst. lOlb 3 22 

Mr. A. Goddard's br. h. Windsor, 6 yrs old, Qst 1 3 dr. 

Capt. Cook's Tafiy, aged,9st. 3lb 2 dis. 

Handicap Stakes. — Sum and Course not mentioned. 

Mr. Biggs's b. f. Dorina, by Gohanna, 4 yrs old, 8st. 2lb 1 

Mr. Radclyffe's b. h. Smallhopes, 6 yrs old, Qst. 3lb 2 



NEWBURY MEETING, BERKS. 

'J'lrESDAY, September 22. Sweepstakes of 50gs. each, h. ft. weight 

for inches j the highest 8st. 4lb. — Once round, the distance of the 
OldComse.— Five subscribers. 

Mr. Bacon's b. f. Tilbury, j)y Whiskey, out of Little'Peggy 1 

Mr. Poyntz's ch. f. Caroline, by Haphazard, out of Cowdray's dam. . 2 
Mr. Hallett's br. f. by Johnny, dam by Stickler '. 3 

Sweepstakes of 5gs. each, with 25gs. added, for horses, fee. — Four miles. 

Five subscribers. 

Mr. Peach's ch. m. Jannette, by King Bladud, 5 yrs old, 8st. gib 1 

Mr. Dundas's ch. g. Romeo, aged, pst. 3lb 2 

Produce Stakes of 25gs. each, for three-years-old colts, 8st. 3lb. fillies^ 

Sst.^ — ^Two miles. — Five subscribei*s. 
Mr. Dundas*s b. c. Kintbury Eagle, by Eagle, out of Drug. . walked over. 

Sweej^tak^s 



7HS RACING CdOii^NBAR. ftl 

(weepstal^es of lOgs. each^ for all ages. — Once round.^-^jpight sab* 

scribers. 
Mr. Halletf s b. c. Coelebs, by Sir Peter or Beningbrougb, 4 yrs old, 

. gst. gib 1 

Mr. Bacon*s b. f. Tilbury, 3 yrs old, 7st, 7lb. 2 

Fifty Poiinils for horses, &c.— Four-raile heats. 
Sir H. LippiDcatt's b. c. Cross-Bow, by Cheshire -Cheese, 4 yn old, 

lOst. 5lb 1 1 

Mr. Rogers's b. h, Glancer Capet, 5 yrs old, lOst. 7lb. ... * 3 2 

Mr. Hallett's b. c. Coelebs, 4 yrs old, lOst. 7lb , 2 3 

Sweepstakes of 5gs. each, for hunters, ISst. — ^Two-niile heats. — ^Thirt^u 

subscribers. 

Mr. Bacon's b. m. Kennelina, aged .....S 1 1 

Col. Stead's b. g. Hazard, aged '. ;,.^ 1 2 2 

Mr. Hunt's ch. g. Sawney, aged 2 3 dr. 

WEDNESDAY. — Sweepstakes of lOgs. each, for tbree-ye^rs-old 
colts, 8st. 5lb. fillies, 8st. 2lb. — ^Two miles. — Four subscribers. 
Mr. Bacon's b. f. Tilbury, by Whiskey ....,...< walked over. 

Fifty Pounds for all ages.— Three-mile heats. 
Sir H. Lippincott's b. c. Cross -Bow, 4 yrs old, lOst. 12lb. ...•..! I 
Mr. Hallett's b. c. Coelebs, 4 yrs old, lOst. 7lb 2 2 

Handicap Purse of 50gs. — (Weights not mentioned in the list). — ^Two^ 

mile heats. 

Mr. Hallett's b. c. Coelebs, 4 yrs old 1 I 

Mr. Bacon's b. c. Rattletrap, 3 yrs old ., 2 2 

Mr. Rogers's b. h. Glancer Capet, 5 yrs old 3 9 

Match for 50gs. — Craven Mile. 

Mr. Petre's b. g. Traveller (the Owner rode) 1 

Mr. C. Craven's Chance (the Owner) • 2 



WALSALL MEETING, STAFFORDSHIRE. 

V!y^EDNESDAY, September 23. Sweepstakes of 10gs.each> with 

15gs. added, for three-year-olds. — ^Two miles. — Six subscribers. 

Lord Oxford's b. c. Tinker Barnes, by Governor, 8st. 5lb 1 

Mr. Bettison's br. f. Little Gipsy, by Staveley (bolted) 2 

Fifty Pounds for all ages.— Three-mile lieats. 
Lord Oxford's b. f. Glauvina, by Coriolanus, 4 yrs old, 8st. (T. ' 

Can) ..,: 4 1 1 

Lord Wilton's br. m. Berenice, aged, pst. 2lb. (R. Spencer) . • • • 12 2 

Mr. West's b. m. Locket, 5 yrs old, Sst. 61b. * 4 . , 2 dr. 

Sir T. Mostyn's b. c. Nobody, 4 yrs old, 7st. 12lb 3 dr. 

Berenice the favourite; after the second heat, 6 to, 4 on Glauvina.— A 

good race. 

THURSDAY.— Sweepstakes of lOgs. each, with 15g5. added, for 
all ages.— fThree-mile heats.— ^Eight subscribers. 
Mr. Flelcber's gr. f. Juno, by Deipini, 4 yrs old> J&t Sib.^* . •« .' •« I 1 

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22 *HE HAaNG CALENDAH. 

Mr. Brooke*8 h. c. Oliver Cromwell, 4 yrs old, Jut. lOlb 7.2 4 

Five to 4, and after the iTeat, 7 to 4 on Juno. 

Fifty Pounds for horses, &c. — ^Three-mile heats. 
Mr. Palfrey's b. c. Worcester, hy Sir Oliver, 4 yrs old, 8bt. 3lb. . , 1 1 

Lord Oxford's b. f. Glauvina, 4 yrs old, 8st 3 ^ 

Mr. Atherton's b. f. by Milo, 4 yrs old, 7st. 12lb.. . 2 dr. 

Glauvina the favourite ; after the heat, 6 to 4 on Worcester. 



CARLISLE MEETING, CUMBERLAND. 

»pUESDAY, September 29. ^The King's Purse of lOOgs. for ^ 

ages. — Four-mile heats. 
Mr. N. B. Hodgson's b. g. Woodman, by Young Woodpecker, 5 

yrs old, 8st. 61b. (J. Garbutt) ' , 1 1 

r. E. L. Hodgson's gr. c. Pomfret-Cake, 4 yrs old, 7st. 7lb 3 2 

Mr. M'Minnie's b. g. Little John, 5 yrs old, 8st. 6H> 2 3 

Three and 4 to 1 on Woodman. — ^Woncasy. 

WEDNESD'AY.-^eventy Pounds for maiden horses, &c.— Two- 
mile heats. 
Jlr. R. Johnson's b. c. Stiff-Dick, by Governor, out of Enterprise, 

by Young Marsk, 3 yrs old, 6'st. lOlb 1 2 1 

<Jeneral< Seddon's b. c. Comvlius, by Remembrancer, 3 yrs old> 

6'st. lOlb 6 1 2 

Mr. Warosford's br. c. Disappointment, by Hambletonian, 3 yrs 

old, 66t. lOlb. (lame) S 3 4 

Mr. Storey's b. f. Florikin, 4 yrs old, 78t. Qlb 4 43 

Mr. Dinsdale's b. f. Hutchinsina, 3 yrs old, 6st. 7lb 5 5 dr. 

Mr. WetbereH's br. g. by Paynator, 4 yrs old, 7st. gib 2 6 di*. 

Six and 7 to 4 on the field ; after the first heat, 5 to 4 on Stiff-Dick ; 
after the second heat, even betting, on Cornelius. — Agooil race. 

Fifty Pounds for three-year-olds, 7st. 7lb. — ^Two-mile heats. 

Mr. Fletcher's b. c. Sligo, by Shuttle (G. Gates) 2 X 1 

Lord Strathmojre's ch. c. by Remombrancer, out of Heroine. ... 122 
Six and 7 to 4 on Lord Stratbmore's colt i after the second heat, 6 to 4 

on Sligo. — ^A good race. 

THURSDAY, October 1.— The Purse of lOOl. for all ages.— Three- 
mile beats. 
Mr. Fletcher's b. c. Sligo, by Shuttle, out of Stavele y's dain> 3 yrs 

old, 6st. 4lb. (G. Gates) 1 1 

Mr. N. B. Hodgson's b. g. Woodman, 5 yrs old, 8st. Sib. ...... 2 2 

Two to 1 on Woodman ; lifter the heat, 3 to 1 on Sligo. 

Fifty Pounds for all ages. — One-mile heats. 
Mr. 1*. Robinson's b. c. Hector, by Hyacinthus, 4 yrs old, 88t. (J. 

Garbutt) . . , 1 1 

Gen. Seddon's b. c. Cornelius, 3 yrs old, Jst. 2lb 6 2 

Mr. Hutchinson's b. g. Rovedino, 5 yrs old, 8st. 7ib 2 3 

Mr. M'Miooia's b. g. Little Jafao, & yx% cH, Sst. 7lb,» . , 5 4 



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Mr. Elliott*8 b* c. Diamond^ by Young Woodpecker, 3 yrs old, 

78t. 2lb 3 5 

Mr. Young's ch. m. First-Fly, 5 yrs old, Sst. 7lb 4 - dr. 

Five to 4, and after the heat, 2 to 1 on Hector.— Won easy. 



^VREXHAM MEETING, DENBIGHSHIRE. 

TPUESDA Y, September 29.— -Sweepstakes of 1 5gs, e^h, for all ages. 
Three times round. — ^Ten subscribers. 

Mr. EgertQn*s b.h. Cestriaii, by Gohanna, aged, 6st. .12lb . 1 

Mr. Benson's b. c. Uncle Toby, 3 yrs old, 6st. lOlb 2 

Mr. Price's b. c. Flodoardp, 4 yrs old, 8st , 3 

• Sir W. W. Wynne's ch. h. Toledo, 5 yrs old, Sst. lOlb 4 

Sir W. W. Wynne's b. c. Manikin, 3 yrs old, 6st. lOlb 5 

Fifty Pounds for three and four-year-olds. — Two-mile beats; 
Mr. Price's b. c. Uncle Dick, by Cockfighter, 4 yrs, Sst. 12lb. ..4 1 1 
Sir W. W.Wynne's b. f. Olivera, by Sir Olivei-, 3 yrs old, 7st. . . 1 3 2 

Mr. Waterworth's b. c. Noyeau, 4 yrs old, Sst. 2lb 3 2 3 

Mr. Egerton's b. c. Hit-or-Miss, 4 yrs old, Sst. I2lb. 2 4 dr. 

Mr. Lewis's b. g. Speculation, 4 yrs old, Sst. 5lb 5 5 dr, 

Mr. Powell's b. c. Banker, 4 yrs old, Sst. 12lb 6 dr. 

The field the fayourite ; after the second beat, 7 to 4 on Uncle Dick. 

WEDNESDAY.— The Silver Cup, value 50l the gift of Sir W. W. 
Wynne, Bart, for horses, &c. the property of privates .orDOB^commis* 
sioned officers of the N. W. Y. C. — ^Two^-mile heats. 
Mr. G; Smont's ch. h. Fugleman, aged, 12st. 2lb.. ..%.«....,•.. 1 1 
Mr. Wilkinson's ch. m. Win-if-shercan, . by Glaucus, 5 3rrs old, 

• list. lOlb 2 2 

Mr. Evans's b. c. Soldier, 4 yrs old, list. IQlb. .•. i 3 3 

THURSDAY, October 1.— Fifty Pounds for all ages.— Four-mile 
beats. 
Mr. Price's b. c. Uncle Dick, by Cockfighter, 4 yrs old, 7st. 7lb. . . 1 1 

Sir W. W. Wynne's b. c. by Diamond, 3 yrs old, fist. 3 2 

Mr. Powell's b. <?. Banker, 4 yrs old, 7st..7U>. 2 3 

Two and 3 to 1 on Uncle Dick. ' 

Handicap Stakes of 5gs. each; with 20gs. added. — Two-mile heats. — 

Twelve subscribers. 
Mr. Egerton's b. c. Hit-or-miss, by Hapbazard, 4 yrs old, 

. 7st. lOlb , 2 14 1 

SirW.W.Wyrine'scb.h. Toledo, 5 yrs old, Sst. 4lb 7 5 12 

Mr. Fitzhugh's b. h. Glassblower, 6 yrs old, Sst. 12lb. 3 62 

Mr. Price's b. c. Flodoardo, 4 yrs old, 7st. lOlb 4 4 3 

Mr.Sbipley's ch. c. by Meteor, 3 yrs old, 6st. 2lb 1 2 dr. 

Sir S. R. Glynne's b. f. Georgiana, 5 yrs old, Sst. 2lb. , ^ . . . . 5 3 dr. 

Mr. Benson's b. c. Master Harry, 3 yrs old, 6st. 2lb ; 6 7 dr* 

A very well contested rac^. 

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RICHMOND MEETING, YORKSHIRE^ 

^UESDAY, October 6. ^Swcepstake^ of aOgs. each, far thre€-yfear»* 

old fillies, Sst. 3 lb. — Once round the Coutfte. — Five subscriberft. 
Mr. Hewett's bay, Manuella, by Dick Andreivs, out of Man- 

dane, by PotSo's walked over. 

Fifty Pounds for three and four-year-oWs.— Two-mile beats. 
Sir M. M. Sykes's b. c. Epperston, by Delpini, out of Sir Launce- 

lot's dam, 4 yrs old, Sst. 2lb. (Mark Noble) 1 . I 

Mr. Jaques's b. c. by Stamford, out of Merryfidd's dam, f^. 4lb. 4 ^ 

Mr. G. Lii>ton*s br. g. Zisca, by Stamford,^ yrs old, 7st. 4lb 5 3^. 

Lord Milton's* ch. f, by Stamford, out of Wryneck, 3 yrs old, 

78t. 41b % 4 

Mr. Hutchinson's b. c. Brother to Harmless, by St. George, 3 yrs 

old,r 7st. 4lb a S 

£ven betting on Mr. Jaqiies's colt ) after the heat, the same. — Won easy. 

WEDNESDAY. Sweepstakes of 20g8. each, for two-ycars-oW 

c6lts, Sst. 4Jh.— From the Grey Stone to the Boding-Post.— Three sub- 
scribers. 

Mr. T. Peirse's b. c. Flinty by Firelock, dam by Anvil (W. Peirse) . . 1 

Mr. Smallwood*8 h. c^ by St. George, dam by Richardson's Marsk • • 2 

Six and 7 to 4 on Mr. Smallwood's eott. — Won easy. 

Sweepstakes of 20gs. each, for three-years-old colts and fillies. — ^Oncg 

round the Course.*— Six safbsciibers, 
Mt. Barreikt*s b. f . Sarisaa, by Delpini, out of Slasher^ by Dart, 8st. 3lb. 

(Mark Noble) ^ 1 

Duke of Leeds's ch* c. Tarquin, by Stripling, Sst. 2lb. <riderfellat'tha 

Ending*Po«t) ..* 2 

Lord Miiton*s br. c, Algernon, by OrvtUe, Ssc ^Ib ^....b^^.* 3 

Five and d to 4 on Xarquin, 2 to 1 agst Algernon, aild S^rissa not nam^ 

An uncommon fine race. 

The Subscription Gold Cup, value lOOgs. by nine Subscribers of lpg% 

each, wi^ $9l. 10s. added. — Four miles. 
Hr. Riddelt's b. c. X, Y, Z, by Haphazard, dam by Spadilhi, 47rs oU, 

8s t (Mark Noble) , , 1 

Mr. T. Duncombe's b. f. Phantom, by Hambletoniau, 4 yrs old, *J%t, 

12lb. <T, Shepherd). 3 

Mr. Hewett's b. f. Cwm, by Dick Andrews, 3 yrs old, 6st. 8lb..* 3 

Mr. Jaques's br. c. Merryfield, by Cockfighter, 4 -yrs old^ Sst 4 

Xiord Dundas's gr. f. Heliantha, by L'Orient, 4 yrs old, 7st. 12lb. ... 5 
Sir W. Maxwell's gr. c. Viscount, Brotli'er to Barbn^ by Stamford, 3 

yrs old, 6st. lOlb O 

Mr. Brandling's br. f. Salamanca, by Sir Solomon, 3 yrs old, 6st. i\h. 

(did not weigh) , '. '• 

Even betting that either X, Y, 2, or Viscount won 5 7 to 4 agst Ct^m, 
5 to 2 agst X, Y, Z, 5 to 2 agst Viscount, and 5 to I agst Merryfield. 
In going the firet time round. Viscount bolte<l and* leapfed the ^tone^- 
wall 5 after which double railed fence^ hedge,' &c. but neither him or 
the rider receive<lauy injury. 

THURSDAY^ 



THE RACING CALENDAR. ^ 

THURSDAY.--^weepstakes of lOgs. each^ wit^ 50l. added^ for all 
ages.-*— Three-mile heats. — Six subscribers. ^ 

J>uke of Leeds*8 ch. h. Mowbray, by Pandolpbo, ag«d^ 8st. Qlb, 

(MarkNoble) ......'.. I.. 1 1 

Sir B. Graham's gr. b. Sledmcre, by Delpini, 5 yrs old, 8st. 7lb. . . 2 2 

XfOrd Fitzwilliam s ch. c. Cid, by Sancho, 4 yrs old, 8st 3 3 

Mr. Brandling's br. f. Salamanca, 3 yi-s old, 6st. i2lb .'• . 4 4 

•Six to 4 on Mowbray, and 3 to 1 agst Sledmere ; after tde heat, 2 and 3 

to 1 on Mowbray. — ^The ftfst heat was a very fine one, and won vdtk 

.with difficulty,; but the second heat was won easy, 

. • • • • * 

... 9BES9B55 

TAVISTOCK AND PLYMOUTH MEETING. 

Tt/'BDNESDAY, Septembef 2. — -Fifty Poands for ail ages.— Three- 
mile, beats. 
Mr. Courtehey*s b. b. White-Rose, by Benin^bmngb, aged, Qst . • I 1 
Mf . Digby's b. c. Cardenio, by PhG&nix, 4 yrs old, 7»t. 1 lib.. > .... 3 2 
■Mr. King's b. §, Tekeli, by Waxy, aged, ^stv. 2 3 

Sw6q[>stake8 of 5gs. each, for horses, &c. not thotfongli bred.— Two- 
mile heats. 
^fr.Kti^g*s b..m. Rosalind, by Hyperion^ aged, lO^.^Slb. .... ^21 I. 

Mr. Perry's b. m. Miss Bab, aged,-18st. 1 llH. .• . . 3 1 2 2 

Mr. DJgby's br, f* by Star, 3 yrs old, 78t. 41b 1 3 dr. 



STIRLING MEETING, SCOTLAND; 

T^RIDAY, September 25. ^Fifty Pounds for horses, &c. — Four-mile 

•*' heats. 

Lord ^ontgomerie*s ch. m. Ayrshire-Lass, by John BnH, 5 yrs old, 

7st. 13lb. (J. Shepherd) 1 I 

Hr. J^oswelFs h. m. Pecnnia, 6 yrs oW, Sst. 12lb. ...,.., 2 2 

SATURDAY.— Fifty Pounds for horses, &c.— Two-mile heats, 
tiord Montgomerie's ch. ni. Ayrshire-Lass, 5 yrs old, Sst 9lb._ .... 1 1 
3Vfc. Bqswefi's b. m. Pecunia, 6 yrs old, gst .........2 % 

San)Q Day.—- Fifty Pounds for horses, &c.— -Four-mile heats. 
Ix>ril MpPtgona^rie's cfa.m. Ayrshire-Lass, 5 yrs old, Jtt 12lb.. « . . 1 1 

Mr. BQ8well*$ b. m. P«cunia, 6 yrs old, 8st. 8lb 2 2 

Ayrshire-Lass won all the above Purses, never beating Pecunia above 

half a ^ength. 



PERTH MEETING, SCOTLAND. 

TN SEFTEMBBjEl.— — ^Fifty Pounds for all ages.— Heats, one mile 
"* and. a half. 

Mr. Key's gr. k Ganymede, by Delpini, 5 yrs old (T. Watson) 3 11 
Mr. Baurd's ch. g. Shepherd, (late DarringtonXade) by Hyacin- 

thus, aged * - 1 2 2 

iSeik Durham's b. ul Warwickshire-Lass,, aged 2 3 dr. 

Fifty 



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Fifty Pounds for hunters. — Two-mile beats. 

Mr. — — *8 br. b. Gaiety^ by Gouty, aged 1 1 

Mr. Baird*5 cb. g. Sbepberd, aged ...;.... 3 % 



BASINGSTOKE MEETING, HAMPSHIRE. 

nrUESDAY, September 2g. Fifty Poaods for maiden borses, &«; 

Heats, about two miles and a balf, 

Mr. Batson*s b. f. Pranks, by Hyperion, 3 yrs old, 7st. 3lb I 1 

Mr. Weston*8 b. c. Musical Magic, 3 yrs old, Jst. 61)) 4 2 

Mr. Hallett's b. f. by Johnny, 3 yrs old, 78t. 3lb, 5 3 

Mr. Faulkner's cb. g. Constitution, 4 yrs old, 8st. 5lb 3 4 

Mr. Bacon's b. c. Rattletrap, 3 yrs old, 7st.^lb. , 2 dr. 

Mr. Duffield's b. f. Cornelia, 3 yrs old, 7st. 3lb. 6 <ir. 

Mr. Pryse's br. c. Caliban, 3 yrs old, 7st. 61b ' 7 <>>'• 

Mr. SmitVs b. b. Rodrigo, 5 yrs old, g%t 6 dr. 

Sweepstakes of 5gs. each> with 251. added, for hunters that neferwOD, 
belonging to Gentlemen resident in the County of Soatfaampton.-** 
Heats, about two miles and a balf. — Five subscribers. 

Mr.Fleefsch.pa. byDotterell, 5yrsold %ll 

Mr. Pole's b. g. Hazard, aged 1 33 

Mr. Curtis'? b. f. Lily, 4 yrs pld ..3 2 2. 

Mr. Booth's br. b. Vagabond, aged , . 4 4 dr. 

WEDNESDAY.~Pifty Pounds for horses, &c.— Heats, about two 
miles and a half. 
Sir H. Lippincott's b. c. Cross-Bow, by Cheshire-Cheese, 4 yrs old, 

88t. 8lb 1 1 

Jir. Richardson's br. c. Orion, 3 yrs old, 7st. 4lb ...*..».. 4 2 

Mr. Newnham's b. f. by Bobtail, 3 yrs old, 7st. lib.. . ^. .,..,.... ^ dr, 

Mr. Blggs*s br. c. Beresford, 4 yrs old, 8st. 8lb 3 dr. 

Handicap Stakes of 5gs. each, with 251. added, for horses, &c. — ^Hcats, 

about two miles and a half. — Five subscribers. 
Mr. Biggs's br. c. Beresfbrd, by Mr. Teazle, 4 yrs old, 8st. gib.. .14 1 

Lord Falmouth^s ch. m. Jannette, 5 yrs old, pst 4 1 * 

Mr. Faulkner's cb. g. Constitution, 4 yrs old, 7st. I2lb. 2 3 3 

Capt. H. Vyse's b. c. Bellator, 4 yrs old, 8st. 61b. 3 2 dr. 



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DUMFRIES MEETING, SCOTLAND. 

JYJONDAY, October 5.-^^ Sweepstakes of 20gs. each, h. ft. with30gs. 

added, for all ages. — ^Two mile8.--»Six subscribers. 
Mr. Don's ch. f. Agnes Sorrel, by Stamford, out of Remnant, 3 jn 

old, 7st *. .; ..• 1 

Mr. Baillie's br. m. Penelope, 6 yrs old, gst ^ 

Two and 3 to I on Anges Sorrel.-—Woii. easy. 



THE RACING CALENDAR. fi? 

Fifty Guineas for horses, &c, bred in Scotland.— Two-mile beats. 
ItfOrd Montgomerie*s ch. m. Ay rsb ire-Lass, by John Bull, 5 yrs 

old, Qst 1 1 

liord £gUntoun*s b. c. by Sir Charles, out of Kn«e-Buckle*s dam, 

3 yrs old, 7st. 5lb 2 dn 

Six and 7 to 4 on Ayrsbire-Lass. 

TU.ESDAY.--Tlie lOOgs. Purse given by the Dumfries and Gallo- 
way Hunts, was not run for, for want of horses. 

WEDNESDAY.— Fifty Guineas for all ages.— -Two-mile beats. 
Marquis of Queensberry*s b. g. Rovedino, by Beningbrougb, 5 

yrs old, 8st. J3lb. (R. Johnson) 3 1 1 

Liord Eglintoun*s b. c. by Sir Charles, 3 yrs old, 7st. 4lb 13 3 

Mr. M'Minnie's b. c. Stiff-Dick, by Governor, 3 yrs, 7st. 4lb.. .222 
Stiff-Dick the favourite ; after the second heat, 2 to 1 on Rovedino. 



STAFFORD MEETING. 

"^ij ONDAY, October 5. ^The Gold Cup, value lOOgs. with 20g«k.. 

in specie, for all ages. — ^Twice round the Course. 
Xord Grey*8 b. f. Stella, by Sir Oliver, 4 yrs old, 7st. lOlb. (R. 

Spencer) 1 

Mr. Canning's b. f. Slang, 4 yrs old, /St. lOlb , 2 

Mr. Pigott's b. h. York, aged, gst .' S 

Six and ^ to 4 on Stella. 

Sixty Guineas for all ages. — Heats, twice round the Course. 
'Mr. Benson's b. c. British Bayonet, by Hambletonian, 4 yrs old, 

8st. 5lb 1 1 

Mr. Atberton's br. f. Chickey-Pokey, 4 yrs old, 8st.3lb.. ....... 3 2 

Mr. Dyott's br. f. Betsy, 4yrs old, 8st 4 3 

Mr. Saunders's br. c. Black-Boy, 4 yrs old, 8st. 5lb 5 ^if 

Mr. Aldersey's br. c. by Diamond, 3 yrs old, 6st. 12lb 2 dr. 

Mr.Brade's br. c. Running Peter, 4 yrs old, 8st. 6lb. (bolted). . . . dis. 
Six to 4, and after the heat, 3 to 1 on British Bayonet. — ^Mr. Benson 
gave the above Purse of 60gs. for the use of the Genei'al Infirmary. • 

TUESDAY. — Sweepstakes of 15gs. each, for three-years-old coltf, 
6st. 3 lb. fillies, 8st.^ — Once round the Course. — ^Eleven subscribers. 
Mr. Benson's b. c. Uncle Toby, by Golumpns, out of Golden Locks O 1 

X>ord Oxford's b. c. Tinker Barnes, by Governor O 2 

Mr. Astley's b. f. Laur^, by Beningbrough 3 

Mr. Aldersey'sb. c. by Diamond, dam by Mr. Richardson's Marsk ^ 
Uncle Toby the favourite \ after the dead heat, even betting. 

Sweepstakes of 5gs. each, with 30gs. added, for all ages. — Heats, twice 

round the Course. 
Mr. Atherton's br. f. Chickey Pokey, by Milo, 0!it of Moggy, by 

Whipcord, 4 yrs old, 7st. 1 lib 1 I 

Mr. Painter's gr. g. Fulminator, 4 yrs old, 7st. 13lb ^.*2 2 

liOrd 



M Tfifi RACING CAl.£NDAR* 

Lord Oxfc>r<i*ci b. f. Glaumna, 4 yrs old, 7st. 13lb 3 dU 

Hr. B(ttde*s b. c. Ruooing Peter, 4 yrs old, 7st. 12lb. (bolted) . . dk. ^ 
Si^ to 4 on Fulmiuator ; after the beat, 2 to 1 on Chickey Pokey. 

WEDNESDAY. — Svreepstakes of 15g%. eacb^ for two-years-okl 
colts, Sst. 2lb. filiie^. Set.— >Once round the Course.— Six tobscribers. 
Mr. Painter's b. c. Madrid, by Remembrancer, out of 26diac*8 dam 

(R.SpeiK5er) '. 1 

Mr. Nicbors cb. c. by a Brother to Stamford, dam by Higbflyer . • . . 21 
Mr. Littleton's b. f. by Milo, dam by Joe Andrews, out of GilUflower 3 

Six and 7 to 4 on Madrid. 

Baxidicap Stakes of 5gs. each, with 501. added. — Heats, twice round 

the Course. — ^Thirteen subscribers. 

Mr. Canning's b. f. Slang, by Vermin, 4 yrs old, 7st. lOlb 3 2 11 

Mr. Palfrey's hr. c. Worcester, 4 yrs old, 8st. 61b 1 3 2 dr. 

Mr. Benson's b. c. British Bayonet, 4 yrs old, 8st. 7lb. (fell \ 

lame) •«« 7 ^ ^^» 

Mr. Shawe*s br. g. Hambletnn Jack, 6 yrs old, Qst 5 4 <lr. 

Mr. Glover's br. c. Mulberry, 3 yrs oW, 7&t. 81b .6 5 dr. 

Mr. Penson's b. c. Uncle Toby^ 3 yrs old, 7st. 8lb 2 dr. 

Mr. Pigott*s b, fa. Mantidamun, 5 yrs old, Qst. 31b 4 dr. 

Worcester the favourite ^ in running the second heat, 5 and () to 1 ha 

won. 



CALEDONIAN MEETING, AND AYR RACES. 

npHURSDAY, October 8.— ^-^arquis of Queensberry's br. c. Brother 
to Laivel-Leaf, by Stamford, received forfeit from Lord Montgo- 
ineria's br. c. by John Bull, out of Hebe's dam, 8st. 2lb. each, two miles, 
lOOgs.h. ft. 

MONDAY, October 12.— The King's Purse of lOOgs. given totha 
Hunt, for horses, &c.-«-Four-mile heats. 
Mr. Key's gr. h. Ganymede, hy Delpini, 5 yre old (R. Johnson). .211 

Lord Montgomerie's h. h. Rov^er, 6.yr&old <...>.! 2 dr. 

Six to 4, and after the first heat, 3 to 1 on Rover, who feU lame in mn-> 

ning for the second heat. i 

TUESDAY.— The Gold Cup, value lOOgs. with 20g8. in sp^ie, for 
horses. &c. bi-ed in Scotland. — ^Two miles. 
Lord Montgomerie's br. c. by John Bull, out of Miss Whip, 3 yrs okl, 

7st. 5lb. (H. Boynton) 1 

Mr..Basweirs b. m. Pecunia, 6 yrs old, 8st. 13lh. » 2 

Mr. Hamilton's ch. f. by John Bull, dam by Soldier, 4 yrs, 8st. 2lb. . . 3 

Sir D. H. Blair's b. c. Bullion, 4 yrs old, 8st. ^Ib 4 

Six to 4 on Lord Montgomerie's colt.-^A good race. 

Sweepsla]iesof 20gs. each > for three-years-old colts, 8st.2lb. fiUiea, 8st. 

Two miles. — Eleven subscribers. 
Lord MoAtgoDierie's br. c. by John Bull, out of Miss WJiip (J. Shepherd) I 

- Mr. 



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Mr. tioswdl's b. c. MustelUis, by Sir Charles, dam by. Weasel , . 1 

Sit D. H: Blair's b. c. by John Bull or Sir Charles, out of Bit of Tar- 

, tan*8.dam ..., 3 

Two to 1 OrtXoi'd Montgon^efie^s coll.— A good race. 

Sweepstakes of 50gs. each, h^ ft. for four-years->old colts, 8st,4lb. fillies, 

8st. lib. — On^ mile and a half. — ^Four subscribers. 
Mr. D. Hamilton's cb. c. General Graham, by John Bull, ou( 

of Daffodil, by JVtagnet walked over* 

SirD. H. Blair's b.c. Bullion, by John Bull, 8st. lib. received forfeit 
from the Marquis of Queensberry*s b. c. Middleham, (deadj 8st. 61b. one 
mile, lOOgs.h. ft, 

fifty Guineas given by the Hunt, for three-years-old colts, 8«t 5!b. fil« 

lies^ 8st. 2lb.<-*-Two<-mile heats. 
Mr. Fletcher's b. c. SligQ, Brother to Staveley, by Shuttle (J. 

Shepherd) ! . . ! l 1 

Martjuis of Queensberry's br. c« Brother to Laurel-Leaf, by Stam- 
ford ,. *. 2 Z 

Three to 1 on Sligo. — ^Won easy. 

Fifty Pounds for all ages. — ^Three-mile heats. 
Marq^ of Queeqsberry's b. c. Llewellyn, by St. Greorge, dam by a 

Brother to Eag1e> 3 yrs old, 6st. 1 lib. (H. Boynton) 1 1 

Mr. Smaliwood's b. c. by Hambletonian, dam by Jupiter, 3 yrs 

old, 6st. 1 lib. 2 dr 

Mr. Bos well's b. c. Mustellus, 3 yrs old, 6st. 1 lib. « 3 dr 

WEDNESDAY.— •i'ifty Guineas given by the Hunt, for all ages*— • 

Fear-mile heats. 

« 

Mr. Fletcher's b. c. Sligo, by Shuttle, 3 yrs old, 6st 1 1 

Marqnis of Queensberry's br. c. ^l*other to Laurel-Leaf, 3 yrs 

oldi 6st ; 2 dt. 

Four to I on Sligo. 

Fifty Pounds for ail ages.*— Four-mile hieats. 
Mr. Smal1vvood*s b. c. by Hambletonian, dam by Jupiter, 3 yrs 

old, 6st 2 2 1 1 

Mr. Keys gr. h. Ganymede, 5 yrs old,' 8«t. 3lh 3 1 3 2 

Marquis of Queensberry's b. c. Llewellyn, 3 yrs old, 6st 1 3 2 3 

Six to 4 agst Ganymede ; after the first heat, ev3fi hettiilg otf the field ; 
after the second heat, 4 to 1 on Ganymede ; after the third heat« 6 to 
4 on Mr. Smttllwobd*s <Jolt.— A very fine race. 

THURSDAY.— Sweepstakes of 50g8. each, h. ft. fck three-year- 
olds, Sst. 2lb. fiilies, 7st. 13lb. — ^One mile and a half.— Four subscribers. 

Lord Montgomerie's br. c. by John Bull, out of Miss Whip (J. Shep- 
herd) , I 

Marquis of Queensberry's b. f. Caroline, by Remembrancer, dam by St. 

. George ^ • . 2 

Mr. Hamilton's ch. c. by John Bull, dam by Soldier ••..•••• 3 

Six and 7 to 4 on Lord Montgomerie's colt. 
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30 THE RACING CALENDAR. 

Tbe Produce Stakes of 50gs. each, h. ft. for three-years-old colts^ 6st. 

5lb. fillies, 8sf. 21b. — -Two miles. — Five suhscrihers. 
Lord Montgonierie's br. c. by John Bull^ out of Miss 

Whip walked oydr. 

Fifty Guineas given liy the Hunt, for horses, &c. that had been regularly 

hunted in Scotland, 12st. each.— Four-mile heats. 
Sir D. H.BIair*8 br. m. by Master Robert, out of Bullion's 

dam, by Jupiter, aged walked over. 

Fifty pounds for Scotch-bred horses, &c. of all ages. — ^Two-mile heats. 
Mr. D. Hamilton's ch. c. General Graham, by John Bull,4 yrs old, 

8st. 31b 1 1 

Mr. Bosweirs b. c. Mustellns, by Sir Charles, 3 yrs old, 7st 3 2 

Lord Egliutoun's b. c. by Sir Charles, 3 .yrs old, 7st ..2 3. 

Sir D. U. Blair's br. m. by Master Robert, agec^ 8st. 13lb.,« « ... 5 4 

Mr. Hajuilton's ch. c. by John Bull, 3 yrs old, 7st . : 4 dr. 

Si^ to 4, and after the heat, 2 to 1 on General Graham* 

Match for lOOgs. h. ft. — One mile. 
Marquis of Qucensberry*s b. f. Caroline, by Remenibrancer> • 

dam by St. George walked over, 

Mr. Graham's b. c. by Beningbrough, out of Calabria .... paid. 

FRIDAY.— The lOOgs. Purse, given by tbe Hunt, for all ages. —^llirec- 
milfe heats.- . * . 

Mr. Dob's. ch. f. Agnes jSorrel, by Stamford, out of Remnant; by 

Trumpator, 3 yrs old, 5st. 1 lib. 1 1 

Mft Fktcher*s b. c. SHgo, by Shuttle, 3 yrs old, Ost. 2 2 

Five to 4, and after the h^at, 2 to 1 on Agnes Sorrel. 

SATURDAY.— Fifty Guineas given by the Hunt, for all ages.— Two- 
mile heats. 
Mr. Don's cli". f. Agiics Sorrel, by Stamford, 3 yrs old, 5st. 13lb.. . 1 1 

Marquis of Queeusbeny's b. f. Caroline, 3 yrs old, 6st. 13lb 3 2 

Mr. D. Hamilton's ch. c. General Graham, 4 yrs old, 7st. 7lb.. . . .4 3 
;^ir W. Maxwell's (bte Mr. Smallwood's) b. c. Tam-a-Shanter, by 

Hambletonian, 3 yrs old, 6*st. 2lb 2 4 

Seven to 4 atid 2 to 1 on Agnes Sorrel. 



NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING. 

]yj: ONDAY, October 12.-r-^One-third of a Subscription of 255s. 
each, for five-year-olds, 8st. 8lb. six-year-olds, pst. and aged, 9^^. 
3lb. — Beacon Course. — ^Twelve subscribers. 
Xiord G. H. Cavendish's br. h. Florival, by. Shuttle, 6 yes 

.old walked over. 

Match for l.OOgs. — Abingdon Mile. 
Mr. Turner's br. f. Joan of Arc, by Sorcerer, 3 yrs, Sst. (F. Bnckle) I 

Mr. A. Goddard's b. f. Brighton! a, 4. yrs old, Sst. 7lb ^ 

Even betting. . 

MatcK 



THE RACING CALENDAR. 3i 

Match for 2q0gs. — Abingdon Mile. . 
Duke of Rutland*8 b. c. Grimalkin, by Chaiice, 3 yrs old, 7st. gib. (S. 

Barnard) , ^ .,..'.♦ I 

Mr. Shakespear's b. b. Tumbler, aged, 8st. lOlb. 2 

Thirteen to 8 oh Grimalkin. 

The Thousand-Guineas Stakes (by five Subscribers of 2(X)gs. each) for 

three-years old colts, 8st. 8lb. fillies, 85t. 4lb. — Ditch-in. 
Duke of Rutland's b. f. Elizabeth, by Orville, out of Penny-trumpet . 

(S. Barnard) 1 

Sir J. Shelley*s ch, c. Comus, by Sorcerer 2 

Duke of Grafton's b. c. Joe Miller, by \Vaxy 3 

Lord G. H. Cavendish's b. c. Handel, by Waxy 4 

Mr. Andrew's ch. f. Caiyba, by Sorcerer 5 

Six to 5 on Elizabeth, 3 to 1 agst Comns, and / to 2 agst Joe Miller. 

Won easy. 

Match for 300gs. — ^Two-year-OMs' Course. 
Lord G. H. Cavendish's b. h. Eccleston, by Caesario, 5 yrs old, 8st. 

4lb. (F. BucUe) ! .' l 

Mr, Shakespear's bl. c. Hydaspes, 4 yrs old, 8st.4lb. 2 

Seven to 4 and 2 to 1 on Eccleston. 

Duke of Rutland's Elizabeth, by Orville, received forfeit fi*6m Gene^ 
ral Grosvenor's Guadiana, 8st. 4lb. each. Across the Flat, 200g». h. ft. 

Duke of Rutland's Sorcery, by Sorcerer, 8s t. 3 lb. received forfeit from' 
Sir J. Shelley's Phantom, Sst. lOlb. Across the Flat, 300g». h. ft. 

LqvA Kinnaird's ch. c. by Sancho, out of Darling, 8st. 7lb. received 
200gSi from Lord Oxford's colt. Daffodil, (dead) Sst. 4lb. Across the 
Flat. — Lord Kinnaird's colt walked over. 

Mr. Craven's Tooley, by Walton, 7st. /lb. received 50gs. from the 
Duke of Grafton's Web, 5st. 7lb. Two- year -Olds' Course, lOOgs. 

TUESDAY.— Fifty Pounds for two-yews-old colts, 8st. 4lb, fillies^ 
8st. 21b.— Two-year-Olds' Course. 
Lord F. G. Osborne's b. f. July, by Waxy, out of Drowsy, by Drone 

(F. Buckle) : , 1 

Mr. Sandiver's bl. f. Black Beauty, by Sorcerer 2 

Duke of Grafton's !)r.f. Picquet, by Sorcerer, out of Prunella 3 

The following also started, but were not placed : 
Mr. R. Colborne's ch. f. by Haphazard, out of Brainworm's tiara. ... O 

Mr. Andrew^s hi. f. Lufra, by Walton * O 

Mr. Crockford's b. c. Touchstone, by Paynator. O 

Mr. Goodisson's ch. f. by Alexander the Great O 

Mr. Lake's b. c. Turner, by Lignum •'Vitae 

Mr. Stone's b. f. Miss Whipthong, by Giles O 

Lord Rous's b. f. Mimiciy, by Quiz O 

Seven to 4 and 2 to 1- agst July, 4 to 1 agst Picquet, 4 to 1 agst Misis 

Whipthong, and 5 to 1 agst Lufra. — Won easy. 

Match for lOOgs.— Ditch Mile. 

J^r, Lake's b. c. Ventu^-e, by Haphazard, 8st. 7lb O 

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32 THE RACING CM,£^B4R. 

liord Rou<8 rh. c' Flamingo, by Qniz, 8st 7\h • • Q 

Ran a dead Aea/.— Five to 2 on Flamingo. 

Match for lOOgs. — ^Two-year-Olds' Course, 
liord StaweU*s b. c. Cato, by Sancbo;out of Gipsy, Syrs old, 8st. 2lb. 

(F. Buckie) . : .../.. \ 

Mr. Sbakespear*8 b. c. Joker, 4 yrs old, 8st. 1 1 lb % 

Six and 7 to 4 on Cato. 

Matcb for lOOgs.— Ditch Mile. 
Lord Sackville*s b. c. by Yoong E^ie, but of a Sister to Duxbury, 

8st. 4lb. (F. Buckie) \ 

Geu. Gower's E. f. Aiiastasia, by Trumpator, Sst % 

Six to 4 on Lord SackWlle's colt. 

WEDNESDAY.— The Town Plate of 50l. for three-year-olds and 
upwards.— Two middle miles, of B. C. 
Sir J. Shelley's b. f. Stingtail, by Gobauna, 4 yi-s old, Sst. 4lb. (F. 

Buckle) 1 

Mr. Blake's ch. e. Accident, 3 yrs old, 7st. 4lb 2 

Gen. Grosvenor's ch. f. Guadiana, 3 yrs old, J^t, 41b 3 

Mr. Fletcher's ch. g. iBsculapius, 6 yrs old, Qst. lib 4 

Five and 6 to 4 on Stingtail 

The First Class of the Oatlands' Stakes of 30ks. each. — ^Banbury Mile. 
Mr. Lake's b. c. Venture, by Haphazard, 3 yrs old, 6st. 13lb. (a Boy) I 

Geo. Gower*s b. f. Anastasia, 3 yrs old, 7st. 2lb 2 

Mr. Ladbroke's ch. c. Hamlet, 4 yrs old, Sst. 61b 3 

Dnke of Rutland's br. f. Sorcery, 4 yrs old, Qst t ^^ 

The two following also started, but were not placed : 

Irord Jersey's b. h. Langton. aged, Sst 9lb 

Buke of Grafton's b.f. Web, 4 yrs old, Sst O; 

Mr. Andrew's ch. f. Calyba, 3 yrs old, 6st. gib F»» 

Seven to 4 and 2 to 1 agst Sorcery, 5 to 2 agst Lapgton^ 5 to. 1 against 

Hamlet, and 8 to I agst Venture. 

Gen. Grosvenor's gr. c.by Quiz, dam by Delpini, 2 yrs old, 7«^' ^^^ 
received 20gs. from Mr. Batson's Franks^ 3 yrs old, 9st. 8lb. Yearling 
Course, lOOgs. h. ft. 

' Duke of Grafton's Joe Miller, by Waxy, Sst. 8ib. receii^ed 45gs« frooi. 
Mr. Wilson's Lady Sophia, Sst. Across the Flat, lOOgs. 

THURSDAY.— Match for 50gs.— Ditch Mile. 
Mr. -Shakespear's bl. c. Hydaspes, by Trumpator, 8st 61b. (S. Chifney) I 

Mr. Andrew's bl. c. Trophonius, by Sorcerer, Sst. lib. 4 

Seven to 4 on Hydaspes. — A fine race. 

The second Class of the Oatlands' Stakes of 3C)gs. each. — ^Ilowky Mile. 
Mr. Wvudhahi's b. f. Sister to Castanea, by Gohanna, 3 yfs old, 78t. 

3lb. (Huskett) ..•...;... 1 , , . . 1 . 

Dnke of Grafton s b. c. Woeful, 3 yrs old, 7st. Qlb ^. 

Mr. Craven's br. c. Tooley, 3 yre old, 7st. 61b ^ 

Mr. A. Goddard's b. f. Brightonia, 4 yrs old, 6st. 1 2lb ^ 



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, ir C. BuDbuxy'3 I?, c Jliv^l, 4 yr§.oU, Sst. <5ib f 5 

Mr. Payne's b. c. Truffle, 4 yrs old, 9st ..•...,. pH 

ifr. piake s b. f. At^lanta, 4 yrs oW> 9st, pd 

Two to 1 and 5 to 2 agst Woefwl, 3 to 1 agst Si§Ur to P^stanea, 5 to l 
agst Tooley, and 5 to 1 agst Rival. — Woa e»sy. 

The ^following having declared forfeit for the Qatlands^ witMn the 
time prescribisd, paid lOgs. ettcb, which was divided b^twcejj the win- 
ners of the two Classes. 

Lard G. H. Cavendishes br. h. Fiowval, 6 yrs old, gst. ^. 

liord Jersey's b. h. Invalid, aged, gst 3tt). 

Lord Foley's b. h. Osprey, §yrs old, gst. 

Iford G. H. Cavendish's b. c, Bethlem Gaher, 4 yrs old, 8st. t IH).. 

Lord StawelVs b. c. Cato, 3„yrs old, 7$t, 1 lib. 

Mr. Forth's ch. c. ^Pupil, 3 yrs old, 7st. 2lb. — and 

lilr. Wilson, who did not name. 

Mr. Lake's Britannia, by Gouty, 7^t. Ulb. received 25gs. from Lot^ 
fr. H. Cavendish's Cat, Sister to. Black Diamond, /st.. SJb. Two-yeaf>> 
pids' Course, XOQg»* 

FRIDAY.— Match for iogs.— Two-year-Olds' Course. 

Lord Lowther's bl. h. Japan, by Trumpator, 6 yrs old, 8s t i 

ilajor Wikon's bl. b. Erebus, 5 yrs old, Sst •••••• Z 

'" . . ■ ^ Six to 4 on Japan. 

Match for lOOgs. — Two-year-Olds' Course. 
Lord Sackville'sb. c. by "toung Eagle, out of a Sister to Duxbury, 3 

yrs old, Sst 1 

Lord G. H. Ciavendish's b. f» Barrossa, 4 yrs old, 8&t. 61b.» , ^ 

^ Five and 6 to 4 on Young Eagle. 

flandicap Stakes of 3pgs. eajcb, and 15gs. ft. if declared within half an 

hour after the weights were fixed. — Two-year-Olds' Course* 
Lord G. H. Cavendish's b. h. Ecclesron, by Caesario, 5 yrs old, Sst. 41b. 

^ (F. Buckle) 1 

Mr. Lake's h. m. Britannia, 6 yrs <rfd, 7st. 6lb 2 

]y(r. Sbakespeer's b. c. J[olter, 4 yrs old; 7st. 0lb •....• 3 

Lord Foley's b. h. Osprey, 6 yrs old, Sst. lOlb pd 

Duke of Rutland's Sorcery, 3 yrs old, Sst 2lb.*— declaTed within the 
time. 

Six to 4 oi) EcclestOQ. 

Sweepstakes of 50gs. each, h. ft-^T^o-year-OJids' CoHraCi-^eveii sub* 

§criber&. 
Mr. Elwes's br. c. Master George, by OrvUle> out of Miss Sophia, Sst. 

3lb. (F. Buckle) ...;....*...:..,:....;..... 1 

Gen. Gdwer's bl. f. Algaisife, by Sorcerer, Sst. 3l,b. * . ^ 

Mr. Wyndham's b. f. by GohanAa, rtnt of Amazon, Sst 3 

Gen. Grosvenor's ch. f. Viilpecula, by W^xy, Sst,. ,1 4 

' Six' and 7 to 4 agst Mr. Wyndbuns filly, aud 3.tC! 1 ag^C Vnlpecuia. 

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HOLYWELL HUNT MEETING, FLINTSHIRE. 

nnUESDAY, October 13. The Mostyn Stakes of lOgs. each, for all 

ages. — The Mostyn Mile. — Twenty-foursubscriberi*. 
Mr. Price*8 b. g. Ambo, by Meteor or Diaiiiiood, out of Jack Tar s 

dam^3 yrsold,7st. 2lb. 1 

liord Stamford's gr. f. Olivetta, by Sir Oliver, 3 yrs old, 7^^* ^1^ ^ 

Lord Grey's b. f. Stella, by Sir Oliver, 4 yrs old, 8st 5lb 3 

Mr. Astley's br. m. £lve, by Sorcei'er, 5 yrs old, 9$t 4 

Mr. Astley's cb. c. Magic, by Sorcerer, 4 yrs old, Sst. 5lh «... 5 

Sir T. Mostyn's b. c. Nobody, by Gobanna, 4 yrs ojd, 8st. 5lb 6 

Mr. Wbitmore's'b. c. Rail^ by I>otterell, 4 yrs old, 8st. 5lb 7 

Sweepstakes of 25gs. each, for tsvo-years-old colts, 8st. 5lb. fillies, 8st. 
3lb. — ^The last half mile. — Seven sttbscrihers. 

Sir E. P. Lloyd's b. c. by Sancho, dam by Teddy I 

Mr. E. L. Lloyd's b, c. by Meteor, out of Pearl 2 

Mr. Price's ch. c. Barataria, by Sancbo 3 

Sir W. W. Wynne's ch. c. by Benningsen, out of Bonduca • 

Sir R. Brooke's b. f, by Windle, dam by Paymaster 

Sweepstakes . of 15g8. each, for all ages. — Two miles. — ^Four sub* 

scribers. 

Mr. Price's b.' c. Uncle Dick, by Cockfighter, 4 yrs old, 7st. 12lb I 

Mr. Whitmore's b. c. Rail, 4 yrs old, 7st. 12lb 2 

Mr. Egerton's br. c. Hit-or-Miss, 4 yrs old, 7st. 12lb 3 

THURSDAY.— The Hatvarden Castle Stakes of lOgs. each, for all 
lige8:-»-Two' miles.-^Ten subscribers. 

Mr. Price's b. c. Ambo, by Meteor or Diamond, 3 yrs old, 7st. lib... . 1 
Sir W. W. Wynne's b. c. Manikin, by Johnny, 3 yi-sold, 6st. lOlb. . . 2 

Handicap Stakes of :^gs. each, 5gs. ft. if declared, &c. — ^Two miles. 

Four subscribers. 
Mr. Price's b. c. Uncle Dick, 4 yrs oLl,78t. 12lb received forfeit. 

« 

Sweepstakes of ^5gs. each, for three-years-old colts, 8st. 31b. fillies, 8st. 

Two miles. 

Mr. Price's b. c. Ambo, by Meteor or Diamond 1 

Sir T. JMostvn's b. c. by Vermin, dam by Young Woodpecker 2 

Sir W. W. Wynne's b. f. Olivera, by Sir Oliver 3 

Handicap Stakes of lOgs. each, with 20gs. added by the Hunt. — ^Two- 
mite heats. — Six subscribers. 
Sir R. Urooke^sb. h. Glassblower, by Ex})ectation, 6 yrs old, 8st. 

lOlb. 1 1 

Sir W. W. Wynne's b. c. by Diaiftond, 3 vrs old. 6st 3 2 

Sir T. Mostyn's b. c. Nobody, 4 yrs old, 7st. 8lb 2 3 

Mr. Price's b. c. Flodoardo, 4 yrs old, 7st. lOlb 5 4 

Sir W. W. Wynne's b. c. Manikin^ 3 yi*s o,k|, 6st 4 dr. 

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l^ONMQUTH MEETING. 

TpUBSDAY, October 13. Handicap Stakes of 20gs. each, ten 

Subscribers, f6ur of whom having declared forfeit within a iimif€d 
time^ paid but dgs. ^ach. — ^Twice rpund the Course. 
Mr. Munsey's b. f. Meteorina, by Meteor, dam by Highflyer, 4 yro 

old,7st. 6lb. .:.... '. 1 

Duke pf Beaufort's b. ra. Mdrgiaha, 5 yrs old, 8st, 7lb 2 

Mr. C. Day's ch. m. Matilda, aged, 8st. 2lb 3 

Fifty Pounds for all ages.— <-T^o<^miIe heats. 

Mr. Munsey's b. f. Meteorina, by Meteor, 4 yrs oW, Sst. 3lb 1 1 

Mr. Biggs's br. .c, Beresford, 4 yrs old, Sst. 13lb 2 2 

Duke of Beaufort's b. in. Morgtana, 5 yrs old, Qst. 2lb 3 dr. 

WEDNESDAY.— Fifty Pounds for all ages.— Two-mile heats. 
Mr. Biggs's b. f. Dorina, by Gohanna, 4 yrs old, 7st. Qlb.. ..... 01 1 

Duke of Beaufort's b< m. Morgiana, 5 yis old^ Sst. 3lb ; . . . 2 2 

Handicap Purse of 501. for all ages. — ^Twice round the Course. 

Mr. Day's ch. m. Matilda, by Ambrosio, aged, Sst. 7lb.. 1 

Mr. Biggs's br. c. Beresford, 4 yrs old, Sst. 13lb. •..,••••• 2 

Mr. Heritage's filly, by St. Vincent, 3 yrs old, a feather 3 

Mr. -^ -'s ch. g. by Guildford, 6 yrs old, 7st. 1 lib , 4 



NORTHALLERTON MEETING, YORKSHIRE. 

T^HURSDAY, October 15. — r-S\veepstak,es of 7gs. eaqh, for huaters . 
not thorough bred.-T-Gentlemen riders.— Three miles. — Seven sub- 
scribers. 
Mr. Nalton's l^. f. Woodbine, by Hyacinth us, 4 yrs old, list (Mr.. 

» Treacher) 1 

Mr. F. Hartley's b, h. Champion, by St. George, aged, 12st.4lb. (the 

Owner) s 2 

Mr. Dillaker's ch. g. Red tail, by Kite, 5 yrs, list. plb. (Mr. Frank). . 3 

Mr. Parry's br. m. Victoria, by Grog, 6 yrs old, 12st. (the Owner) . . 4 

Even i)etting on Woodbine, 2 to 1 agst Champion, 4 to 1 agst Redtail, 

and 8 to 1 agst Victoria, who bolted when within one hundred yards 

of the Winning-Post. 

Fifty Pounds for maiden three and four-year-olds. — Two-mile heats. , 
Mr. Hopper's b. c. Kilbam, by Expectation, dam by Pegasus, 3 

yrs old, 7st. lOlb. (J. Coates) 6 1 1 

Mr. Lambton's b. c. Robin Adair, by Gohanna, 3 yrs old, 7st. 

301b. (Mark Noble) .' 1 2 2 

Mr. T. Duncombe's b. c. Hermit, 3 yrs old, 7st. lOlb.. 5 3 3 

Mr. Hebden's ch. o. Fwx, 3 yrs old, fst. lOlb 7 4 4 

Mr. T, Pfeirse's ch. f. by Remembrancer, out of Charmer, 3 yrs 

old, 7st. Sib 3 5 dr. 

Mr. Richardson's b. f Mantua, by Sancbo, 3 yrs old, 7st. Sib. . . 2 6 dr. 
Mr. J. Hutchinson's b. g. Stocktouian, by Hambletonian, 4 yrs 

#ld, Sst, 6Ib a ............. 4 dr. 

Six 



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SO THE itAcmo aktstmAR. 

Six to 4 agst Hermit^ 2 to i a^st HoUa Advdr, 4 to t agft Mr. PeitSl'i 
fiUy, and 6 to 1 agst Kilhtux; at'ter the fir»t heat, e(veu betting on 
Itobiu Adair ; after the second heat^ 6 to 4 on Kilbam. 

FRIDAY.— Fifty Poinds for all ages.— Thi-c^mile heat«. 

. Sir M. ill/ Sykes's b". c. Epperston, by Dfelpiiii, 4 yrs" old, 7st. 

1 lib. (Mark Noble) :.: :...::.. 13 1 

sir. J. Hodgsarfs gr. f. Cefealia, by Delpini^ 4 yrs oW, Jst, Qlh, 

(J. €oatC8) • 3 12 

Mr. T. Duncomlie's b, c. Hermit, 3 yrs old, (kt. 7lb 423 

3>uke of Leedd's b* f. Rebecca, 4 yrs otd, 7s t. Qlb 2 dr. 

Si3feto4onIlebe6oa, 5 t0 2 ag«rt Epperston^ 5 to 1 agst Hermit, and 6 
U> 1 agst Cei'ealia f after the first heat, 6 to 4 on Epfterston ; after 
tbe second heat^ 4 to 1 ou Cerealia, and 10 to 1 agst £fiperstoB.-*A 
^ery fine race. 

SATURDAY.— Fifty Pounds for horses, &c:— Hiree-niite he^ts. 

Mr. Upplijfcy's b'. f. HsfTri^r, by Delpitir, 4 vrs old, 7st. 12lb. (T. 

Shepherd) v y .' 6 1 1 

. Sir B. Graham's gr< h. Sledmere^ by Delpini, 5 yrs old, Sst. gifb. 

(J> Jack8on> ^ : 1 2f 2 

Mr. Scarishrkk's b, f. I'mvsiwe-he-sha^tf t, 3 yrs old, 6st. lOlh.. .'5 3 dt. 

Mr. P. Watt's b. c. Tom Tit, 3 yrs old, 6st. 12U) 2 4 dr. 

Mr. Garfortb's ch. f. by CamtHits, 3 yrs old, 6st. 5\h 3 dr. 

Lord Strat4iBM>re*s ch. c. by Remembrancer, 3 yrs, 6st. lOtb. . . 4 dr. 

Sir H. V. Tempest's b. h. The Engraver, 5 yrs old, 8st. gib dis. 

£iren betOitog'Oti Sl<f(h]iere, 5 to 2 agst Tom Tit, 5 to 1 agst Harriet^ 
5 to 1 agst^Tbe Engraver, and 6 to 1 agstrm-sare-he-sh'an't) after 
the first heat, 6 to 4 on Sledmere ^ after the second heat, ^2 to 1 oi 
HBrriet>-^A good race. 



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PENRITH MEETING, CUMBERLAND. 

^yEDNESDAY; October 14.— Fifty Pounds for maiden tbree-year- 

• olds. — Tv^o-mile heafs. 
General Seddoi\*s b. c. Cornelius, by Remembrancer, 8st. ^b. (Jr 

Garbutf)* 1 1 

Mr. Dinsdale's b. f. Hutchinsina, by Beningbrougb, 8st. 2lb 2 2 

Ml'. »aiitb'9 b. c. Sir Andrefw, 8st. 4lb 3 3 

CorneHus the faVonrite. — Won very easy. 

Sv^epstakes of 5gs. each, \VUh 20g8. added, for horses, &c. not thorough 

bred, YHst. eath; — Two-nii4e heats. — Five subscribers. 
Mr, Olif hanfs gr. g: Isp-HUl, by Dapple, aged (B. Smith) .... 1 1 

Mr. j^arson's b: g. Driller 9 2 

Mf. Bosteman's b. c. Pumpkin, 4 yrs old , 2 dr^ 

FRlDAY.r-Fifty Pounds for all ages.— Three-mile hcatsr. 

Mp. Robinson's b. c. Htctor, by Hyacinthus, 4 yrs old, 8st. 3lb. 

(J. Gai-biut) : : I ' f 

Ml'. E. L. Hodgson's gr. c. Pomfret-Cake, 4 yvn old, 8st. 3lh 4 2 

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Mr. M'Minnie's b. g. Little John, 5 yrs old, 8st. 8lb 5 3 

Duke of Hamilton's b. c. Ashton-LacI, 4 yrs old, 6st. lib 3 4 

Mr. Johnson's b. c. Stiff-Dick, 3 yrs old, 7st. 3lb 2 dr. 

Hector the favourite. — Won easy. 

Sweepstakes of 5g8. each, with 20gs. added, for horses, &c. not thorough 

bred. — ^Two-mile he^ts. 
Mr. Park/s b. f. Spanking Fanny, 3 vrs old, 6st. 7lb. (J. Brown) 3 11 

Mr. Oliphanfs gr. g, Isp-Hill, aged' 1 3 2 

Mr. Boazman's b. c. Pumpkin, 4 yrs old, 7st. 1 2lb 4 2 3 

-Mr. Henderson'K b. g. Sleddie, 4 yrs old, 7st. 7lb 2 4 dr. 



STOCKTON MEETING, DURHAM. 

•jpHURSDAY, October 22: Fifty Pounds for maiden three-years- 

old colts, 7st. — ^Two-mile heats. 

Mr. Jaques's br. c. by Stamford, out of Merryfield's dam, (T. 

Nicholson) 2 1 3 1 

Mr. Lambton's b. c. Robin Adair, by Gohanna 122 2 

Mr. Hebden's cb. c. Fox, by Hyacinthus 4 3 1 3 

Sir H. V. Tempest*s b. c. by Shuttle 3 dr. 

Five and 6 to 4 on Robin Adair, and 3 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's colt ; after 
the first heat, 3 to 1 on Robin Adair j after the second hfeat, 3 to 1 
on Mr. Jaques's colt 3 after the third heat, 2 to 1 on Mr. Jaques*8 colt. 
Won easy. ^ 

FRIDAY. — ^Fifty Pounds for three and four-year-olds.— Two-mil# 
beats. 

Mr. Hopper's ch. c. Kilham, by Expectation, 3 yrs old, 7st. 

121b. (T. Shepherd) 5 1 3 1 

Mr. Jaques's br. c.Merryfield, 4 yrs old, 8st. lOlb 1222 

Mr. Bower's b. g. Wellington, 4 yrs old, 8st. 5lb 63 1 3 

Mr. Garforth's ch. f. by Caniillus, 3 yrs old, 7st. 5lb 2 4 dr. 

Sir B. Graham's br. c. Biscuit, 3 yrs old, 7st. 9lb 4 5 dr. 

Mr. J. Hutchinson'^ b. g. Stocktonian, 4 yrs old, 8st. 5lh:. ... 3 dr. 
^ven betting on Merryfield ; after the first heat, 2 to 1 on Merryfield ; 

after the second heat, 3 to 1 on Kilham 3 after the third heat^ 2 to i. 

on I^ilham. — Won easy. 

SATURDAY,— -Fifty Pounds for all ages.— Three-mile heats. 

Mr. Bamlet'sb. f. Limblifter, by Beningbrough, 3 yns old, (ist. 1 lib. 

(J. Coates) 1 I 

Mr. Hopper's ch. c. Kilham, 3 yrs old, Jst. lib.. . 3 2 

Sir M. M. Sykes's b. c, Epperston, 4 yrs old, 8st. 3lb 2 3. 

Sir H. V. Tempest's b. h. The Engraver, 5 yrs old, 8st. 8lb 4 4 

Five to 4 on the field j after the first heat, 6 to 4 on Limblifter.-r-Wo^^ 

easy. 
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NEWMARKET THIRD OCTOBER j OR, HOUGHTON 

MEETING. 

TV! ONDAY, October 26. ^Match for One Hundred Guineas.— Ab, 

^^^ Mile. 

General Gower*s b. f. Anastasia, by Trunipator, 3 yrs old, 8st. 5lb. 

(W. Arnold) I 

Mr. Goddard's b. f. Brightonia, 4 yrs old, 8st. 7lb ^ 

Four and 5 to 1 on Anastasia. 

The Garden Stakes of lOOgs. each. — ^Two middle miles of B. C. 
Duke of Rutland*s b. c. Grimalkin, i)y Chance, 4 yrs old, 8st. 61b. (F. 

Buckle) 1 

Mr. Sbakespear*s br. b. Chester, aged, 8st. 8lb 2 

JiOrd Jersey's l>. h. Invalid, aged, 8st. lOlb 3 

Ijord F.dey's ch. c. Soothsayer, 4 yrs old, 9st. 2lb pd 

Lord Darlington*s br. c. Aniadis de Gaul, 4 yrs old, 8st. 6II» pd 

Mr. Andrew's hi. c. Trophonius, 4 yrs old, 8st. 6lb , . pd 

Lord Darlington's b. a Cwrw, 3 yrs old, Sst pd 

Five to 2 on Grimalkin. 

Match for200gs. — Abingdon Mile. 
Sii* J. Shelley's ch. c. Conius, by Sorcerer, 8st. 7lb. (F. Buckle) .... 1 

Mr. Lake's b. c. Pointers, by Giles, 8st. 4lb 3 

Even betting. — A hue race. 

Match for lOOgs.— Beacon Course. 
Mr. Ladbroke*8 br, h. Whalebone, by Waxy, 5 yrs old, Qst. {W. 

Arnold) 1 

Mr. Lake's b. c. Turner, by Lignum-Vitae, 2 yrs old, a feather 2 

Five and 6 to 1 on Whalebone. — Won easy. 

SiveepstHkes of ICX^s. each. — Ditch-in. 
Mr. Dawson's b. g. Cambrian, by Sir Solomon, aged, 8st. lOlb. (S. 

Chifney) 1 

Lord C Somerset's b. c. Angelo, 4 yrs old, Jst. lOlb 2 

Major Wilson's bl. h. Eiebus, 5 yrs old, 88t. 2lb 3 

Even betting on Cau^brian, and 11 to 8 on Angelo. 

Duke of Rutland's Elizabeth, by Orville, 7st. 7'^' received 125gs. 
from Sir J. Shelley's Phantom, 9&t. Across the Flat, 500gs. b. ft. 

Lord G. H. Cavendish's bl. f. Cat, Sister to Black Diamond, 8st. 3lb. 
received forfeit from Lord Sackville's ch. c. by Walton, Jst. 5lb. R. M, 
^OOgs. h. ft. 

Mr. Payne's Truffle, by Sorcerer, 8st. 7lb. received 300gs. from Lord 
Foley's Bodkin, /st. Across the Flat, lOOOgs. h. ft. 

- Gen. Grosvenor's Lazyboots, by Young Drone, 7st. received forfeit 
from Mr. Mellish's Maria, 8st. 7lb. Ab. Mile, ]00g». 

Lord O. Somerset's Julian, by Remembrancer, received 40gs. from 
Major Wilson's Bolter, Ditch-in, lOOgs. b. ft. — To have been ridden by 
the Owners^ catch weights. 

TUESDAY. 



THE RACING CALENDAH. 89 

*rOBSDAY.— -Fifty Pounils for two-year-olds and upwards.— .Tbc 
ladtt'bree miles of B. C. — The winner Was to be sold, with his engagf;* 
meat^) for 30Ggs. &c. 

Mr. Thornbill's gr. c. A(|uarius, by Quiz, 3 yrs old, 7st. 5lb 1 

Duke of Grafton*s br. f. Picquet, 2 yrs old, a feather ♦ . . . . 2 

Mr. Lake's b. c. Venture, 3 yrs old, J^t, 5li) 3 

The following also started, but were not placed : 

J^ord Foley's ch. c. B<»dkin, 3 yrs old, 7st. 5lb , O 

Lord Sackville's ch. c. by Walton, 3 yrs old, 7st. 5lb O 

Lord G. H. Cavendish's br. h. Ftorival, 6 yrs old, pst. 7lh. O 

Mr. Andrew's b. h. Discount, aged, Qst. lOlb O 

Duke of RutlancPs b. c. Ptolemy, 3 yrs old, /st. 5]b O 

Mr. Shakespear's b. h. Tumbler, aged, pst. lOlb ^ O 

Lord Lowtber's b ni. Dimity,'5 yrs old, Qst. 3lb O 

Three to 1 agst Florival,*3 to 1 agst l)imity, 5 to 1 agst Venture, and 8 

to 1 agst Aquariusr 

Sweepstakes of lOOgs. each.— Ab. Mile, 
L»rd C. H. Somerset's b. h. OtFa's Dyke, by Paynator, 5 yn old, 8st; 

(T. Goodisson) '1 

Mr. Shakespear's b. h. Scrub, 5 yrs old, 8st. JJlh 2 m 

Duke of Rutland's b. f. iiorcery, 4 yrs old, 8st. 7lh 5 

Six to 5 agst Scrub, 6 to 4 8gst Sorcery, and 3 to ] agstOffa's D^yke. 

. Match for iOOgs. — Rowley Mile. 
Lord Foley's br. h. Teazdale, by Mr. Teazle, 7st. 13.1b. ( W. Clift) .... 1 

Lprd G. H. Cavendish's b. h. Eccleston, 8st. 8lb 2 

Two to I and 5 to 2 on Eccleston. 

Match for 200gs. — Two-year-Olds* Course. 
Lord G. H. Cavendish's br. c. Merry-go-round, by Trumpator, 4 yrs 

old, 8st. 2lb. (F. Buckle) 1 

vLord Foley's b. h. Osprey, 6 yrs old, 8st. lOlb 2 

Seven to 4 on Osprey. 

Duke of Grafton^9 Woeful, by Waxy, 7st. 4lb. received 150gs. froOi 
Lord Lowtber's Dimity, 8st. lOlb. R. M. 2QOg8. 

WEDNESDAY.— Match for 50gs.— Across tbe Flat. 
Mr. Elwes's br. c. Master George, by Orville, out of Miss Sopbia, 

8st. 7lb. (F. Buckle) 1 

^rd Lowtber's ch. c. Brother to Buttercup, 8st. 4lb • 2 

Three to I on Master George. 

Tbe Subscription Purse of 501. for two-year-olds, Gst. 7lb. and three?" 
year-olds, 8st. lOlb. — Two-year-Olds* Course. — The winner wai- to 
be sold for 350gs. &c. 

Lord Rous's ch. c. Flamingc), by Quiz, 3 yrs old (W. Arnold) . ^ . . • . I. 

Mr. Sandiver's bl f. Black Beauty, 2 yrs old 2 

Mr. Northey's b. f. Sarsenet, 3 yrs old ^....•♦.^. 8 

The following also started, but were not placed : 
General Gower's b. f. Lodona, Sister to Maid of Orleans, 2 yrs old . . O 

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General Gcosveoor's cb. f. by Popinjay, out of Copenbagen's dam, 

2 yrs old • . . • 

Mr. Turner's br. f. Joan of Arc, 3 yrs old ^ .• <> 

Mr. Udney*s colt, by Haphazard, out of Augusta, 2 yrs old O 

Sir C. finnbury's h. c. Scout, 3 yrs old • • . . - ^ 

Lord Lowtber's b. g. by Beningbrough, 3 yrs old > 

Mr. Forth's ch. c. Pupil, 3 yrs old ....* .• 

Seven to 4 and 2 to 1 agst Lord Lowtber^s gelding, 5 to 1 agst Flamingo, 

and 5 to 1 agst Lodona. 

Matcb for 200gs. — ^Two-year-Olds' Course. 
Mr. Wyndham*s b. f. Sister to Castanea, by Gohanna, 8st. 7lb. (W. 

Arnold) ,.. 1 

Lord Sackville*s b. c. by Young Eagle, 8st 2 

Seven to 4 and 2 to 1 on Mr. Wyndbam's filly. 

Matcb for300gs. — Abingdon Mile. 
Colonel Udney*s b. c. TiufBe, by Sorcerer, Sst. 4lb. (F. Buckle) .... f 

Duke of Rutland's b. c. Grimalkin, 8st. 4lb 2 

Six to 5 on Truffle. 

Handicap Stakes of 50gs. each, b. ft. and only lOgs. if declared, &c. — 

Abingdon Mile. 
Duke of Grafton's b. c. Woeful, by Waxy, 3 yrs old, Sst. 4lb. (T. 

Goodisson) 1 

Mr. Craven's br. c. Tooley, 3 yrs old, 7st. lOlb 2 

Mr. Andrew's bl. c. Tropbonius, 4 yn old, 8st « 3 

Mr. Ladbroke's ch. c. Hamlet, 4 yrs old, Sst. 12lb 4 

Tbe following having declared forfeit by the time prescribed, paid only 

lOgs. each :— 
Duke of Rutland's b. f. Elizabeth, 3 yrs old, git. 
Lord Lowther's b. g. by Beningbrougb, 3 yrs old, Sst. ^b. 
Lord G. H. Cavendish's b. f. Barrossa, 4 yrs old, Sst. 4lb. 
Mr. Thornhill's b. f. Historia, 3 yrs old, Sst. and 
Ix>rd Jersey's b. c. Orson, 3 yrs old, 7st. 5lb. 

Seven to 4 agst Woeful, 7 to 4 agst Trophonius, 7 to 2 agst Tooley, and 

8 to 1 agst Hamlet. 

Duke of Rutland's Elizabeth, by Orville, 78t.4lb. received forfeit from 
Lord Foley's Soothsayer, Sst lOlb.R. M. 200gs. 

THURSDAY.— Match for 200gs.— Beacon Cburse. 

Mr. Ladbroke's br. h. Whalebone, by Waxy, 5 yrs old, Sst. 4lb. ( W. 

Arnold) !• 

Lord Sackville's ch. h. Pan, aged, Sst. Qlb, 2 

Seven to 4 on Pan. — A fine race, and won by a head. 

Match for 150gs.— Ditch-in. 
Major Wilson's bl. f. Spotless, by Walton, 3 yrs old, 7st. 1 lib. (J. 

Pratt) I 

Lord C. Somerset's b. c. Angelo, 4 yrs old, Sst. 7lb ^ 

Five to 4 on Spotless. 

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Match for 50gs.— Two-year-Okls* Course. 
Major Wilson's bl. c. Erebus^ by YouDg Whiskey^ 8st. (J. Pratt) . . 1 

Mr. Shakespear*8 br. c Jolter, 8st. 5lb 2, 

Five to 2 on Jolter. 

Subscription Handicap Purse of 50l. for tbree-year*olds and upwards. 

Ditch-in. 
Lord G. H. Cavendish's br. h. Florival, by Shuttle, 6 yrs old, 8st. 61b. 

(W. Arnold) 1 

Lord Lowther*s b. m. Dimity, 5 yrs old, 8st. 5lb. 2 

Lord Foley's ch. c. Bodkin, 3 yrs old, 6st 1 lib 3 

The following also started, but were not placed : 

Mr. Shakespear^s br. h. Chester, aged, 88t. 5lb O 

Mr. Forth's ch. c. Accident, 3 yrs old, 6st. 7lb > O 

Mr. Crockford's gr. f. by Sir Harry Dimsdale, 3 yrs old, 6s 1 3lb O 

Seven to 4 and 2 to 1 agst Florival, 3 to 1 against Bodkin, and 5 to i 

agst Dimity. 

FRIDAY.— Match for 200gs.— Ab. Mile. 

Mr. Craven's br. c. Tooley, by Walton, 8st. 7lbc-{F. BuckJe). 1 

Gen. Gower's b. f. Anastasia, 8st. 3lb 3 

Two to 1 on Tooley. — Won easy. 

Sweepstakes of 25 gs. each. — ^Two-year-Olds' Course. 
General Gower's bl. f. Algarsife, by Sorcerer, 8st. 61b. (W. Arnold) . . I 

Mr. Wyndham's b. f. by Gobanna, out of Amazon, 8s t 2 

Lord Rous's b. f. Mimicry, Sister to Momus, by Quiz, 8st 3 

Six to 5 agst Algarsife, and 5 to 2 agst Mimicry. — Won cleverly. 

Match for lOOgs. — Two middle miles of B. C. 

Lord Foley's br. h. Teazdale, by Mr. Teazle, 8st. 4lb. (W. Clift) 1 

LordC . Somerset's b. h. OfFa's Dyke, 8st. 7lb 2 

Two to 1 on OfFa's Dyke. — Won easy. 

Sweepstakes of 1 5gs. each, for two-year-olds, 6st. jVa, and three-year- 
olds, 8st. 7lb. — ^Two-year-Olds' Course. — The winner was to be sold 
for lOOgs. if demanded, &c. 

Mr. Farrell's b. f. Lady of the Lake, by Sorcerer, 3 yrs old (T. 

Goodisson) 1 

Duke of Rutland's b. c. Ptolemy, by Quiz, 3 yrs old . . . . , 2 

Gen. Gower's bl. f. Algarsife, 2 yrs old 3 

The following also started, but were not placed: 

Mr. Blake's ch. c. Accident, 3 yrs old O 

Mr. Grisewood's b. f. by Sancho, out of Ringtail, 3 yrs old O 

Mr. Lake's b. c. Turner, 2 yrs old « O 

Two to 1 agst Lady of the Lake, 5 to 2 agst Ptolemy, and 5 to 2 agst 

Algarsife.— Won easy. 

Duke of Grafton's Woeful, by Waxy,- 78t. 13lb. received 80g8. from 
Mr. Lake's Pointers, 8st. 4lb. Ab. Mile, 200gs. h. ft. 

SATURDAY.— Match for lOOgs.— Two-year-Olds' Course. 

Lord Jersey's b. c. Orson, by Hyperion, 3 yrs old, 6st. 9lb. , 1 

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Mr. Aoilrew's bl. c. Tropkonius, 4 yrs oM, 7^^* lOlli 1 

Two to 1 on Qrson. — Worn very easy. 

Matcb for 300^s. — Rowley Mile. 
Sir J. Shelley's b. c. Phantom, by Walton, 4 yrs old, Sst. gib. (P. 

Buckle) i 

Lord G. H. Cavendish's b. b. Eccteston, 5 yrs old, 8st. 2lb. ^ 3 

Seven to 4 and 2 to 1 on Phautom.-^A good race. 

Matcb for 200gfr. — ^Two-year-Olds* Course. 
Mr. Wyndbam's b. f. Sister to Castanea, by Gohaona, 3 yrs old, Qst 

41b. (W. Arnold) I 

Mr. Blake's b. f. Itf iss Whiptbong, 2 yrs old, 6st. 4lb 2 

Bven betting, and 6 to 5 on Miss Whiptbong.— A fine race. 

Sweepstakes of 300gs. each.— Abingdon Mile. 
Duke of Rutland's b. t Sorcery, by Sorcerer, Sst. 3lb. (S. Barnard).. 1 

Lord G. H. Cavendish's b. g. Betblem Gaber,,83t. Jlh 2 

Lord Foley's ch. c. Soothsayer, Sst. 9lb 3 

Thirteen to 8 on Betblem Gaher, 2 to I and 5 to 2 agst Soothsayer^ 6 

and 7 to 1 agst Sorcery.— -Won very easy. 

The Audley-£nd Stakes of 30gs. each. — From the Starting Post pf 

T. Y. C. to the end of B. a 
Mr. Craven's br. c. Tooley, by Walton, 3 yrs, Sst. 5lb. (W. Arnold) 1 

Mr. Lake's b. c. Venture, 3 yrs old, 7st. 1 2lb 2 

Mr. Blake's b. f. Atalanta, 4 yrs old, 9st 3 

Major Wikou's b. c. Bolter, 4 yi*s old, pst , « 4 

Six to 4 on Tooley, and 3 to I agst Venture. — Won very easy. 

Duke of St. Albans's Cambrian, by Sir Solomon, Qst. received forfeit 
from Gen. Grosvenor's Lazyboots, 7st. T. Y. C. 50gs. 
, Mr. Payne's TruflSe, by Sorcerer, 8st. 7lb. received 65gs. from Lord 
Lowther's Dimity, Sst. Across the Flat, 200gs. 

Mr. Blake's Atalanta, by Wahon, 7st. Sib. received 40gs. from Mj^. 
Dawson's Recordon, Sst. 2lb. Ditch-in, lOOgs. h. ft. 



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MONDAY AFTER THE HOUGHTON MEETING. 

Sweepstakes of IQgs. eacb> fqr two-year-olds, 6st. 7lb. each.— T. Y.C. 

The winner to be aaki for IQOgs. if demanded, &c. 
Gen. Grosvenor's filly, by Popinjay, out of Copenhagen's dam ...... 1 

Mr. Udney's colt, by Haphazard 2 

Lord 'Lowther's ch. c. Brother to Buttercup 3 

Even bettiqg on Gen. GrosTeaor's filly. 

Match for lOOgs. — ^Across the Flat. 
Duke of Rutland's h. c. Grimalkin, by Chance, 8st. 8lb. (S. Barnard) 1 

Mr. Shakespear's bl. c. Hy<la3pes, 7st. 13ib ^ 

Two to 1 and 5 to 2 oq Qrimalkin. — A fine face. 

Subscription Handicap Purse of 501. for th/ee-y ear-olds and upwardfi 

T. y. c. 

Mr. Farrell's b. f. Lady of the Lake, by Sorcerer, 3 yrs old, 7st. 5lb. 1 

Lord Foley's ch. c. Bodkin. 3 yrs oltL 7st. 3lb • , . • * 

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Tbe following also started, but were not plae^d : 

8ir C. Bunl)ury*s br. b. Fair Star> 6 yrs old, pst , . . . O 

Sir J. Shelley's b, h> Vexation, 6 yrs old, 8st. Gib. ; O 

XfOrd Jersey's b b. Anthonio, 5 yrs old, 8st. 3lb O 

Mr. Lake's ch. m. Britannia, 6 yrs old, 8st. lib O 

X,ord Siawell's ch. f. Mockbird, 4 yrs old, 8st. lib O 

Lord G. H. Cavendish's b. f, Barrossa, 4 yrs old, 7st. 12lb O 

J\f ajor Wilson's bl. h. Erebus, 5 yrs old, 7st. 5lb , O 

Mr Blake's b. f. Atalanta, 4 yrs old, 7st. 5lb O 

Mr. Vansittart's br. c. Euryaliis, 3 yrs old, 7st. 3lb O 

I>uke of Rutland's b. f. by Dick Andrews, dam by Sir Peter, 3 yrs old, 

7st. 2lb O 

Gen. Grosvenor's b. c, Lazyboots, 3 yrs old, 6st. 5lb O 

Five to 2 agst Antbonio, 4 to 1 agst Erebus, 4 to 1 agst Barrossa, 5 to 

1 agst Mockbird^ 6 to 1 agst Lady of the Lake, and 10 to 1 against 

Britannia. 

Subscription Purse of 50l. for horses, &e. — Across the Flat.— The win- 
ner to be sold for 4O0gs. if demanded, &c. 
Lord Lowtbei's b. m. Dimity, by Trumpator, 5 yrs old, Qst. 3lb.. . ; . 1 
jMr. Lake's b. c. Venture, 3 yrs old, 7st. Q\b 2 

The following also started, but were not placed : 

JLfOrd G. H. Cavendish's br. h. Florival, 6 yrs old, Qst. 5lb 

Mr. Shakespear*s b. b. Tunibler, aged, Qsi. 5lb O 

Mr. Trevanion's b. c. Cbilde Harold, by Sancbo, 3 yrs old, 7st. 9lb. . . O 

Lord Jersey's b. h. Invalid, aged, Qst. 5lb O 

Five to 2 agst Florival, 3 to I agst Venture, 7 to 2 agst Dimity, and 6 

to I agst Tumbler. 

Match for 50gs. — Rowley Mile. 
Mr. A. Goddard's b. f Brightonia, by Gohanna, 4 yrs old, Sst. 7lb. (F. 

Buckle) 1 

Mr. Eades*s cb. c. Accident, 3 yrs old, 7st. 1 1 lb 2 

Five to 4 on Accident. 

Match for 200gs. — Ditch-in. 
Lord C. Somerset's br. h. Scorpion, by Gobanna, aged, 12st. (T. 

Goodisson) I 

Major Wil&on's ch* h. Juniper,- aged, 12st.. 2 

Two to 1 and 5 to 2 on Scorpion. 



TARPORLEY HUNT MEETING. 

TTHURSDAY, November 5. Match for One Hundred Guineas. 

Two miles. 
Lord Grey's gr. f. Olivetta, by Sir Oliver, out of Scotina, Sst. 3lb. (R. 

Spencer) I 

Mr. Cholmondeley's b. f. Miss Cheese, by Cheshire-Cheese, Sst. 3lb. 

(J. Hayes) ^ 

tSix, to 4 on Olivetta^ and in running, 2 to 1 on Miss Cheese. 

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Sweepstakes of 20gs. each, for three-year-olds. — Once rouod tbe Goune. 
Mr. Price's b. c. Ambo^ by Meteor or Diamond, dam by Sir Peteri 

8st. 71b , 1 

liOrd Grey's gr. f. Olivetta, 8st. 5lb 2 

Two to 1 on Ambo,— Won easy. 

Sweepstakes of 5gs. each, for horses not thorough bred^ 12st.— -Twice 

round the Course. 

Mr. Price's ch. g. by Cheshire-Cheese, 5 yrs old (R. Spencer) 1 

Sir R. Brooke's br. g. by Sir Oliver, 5 yrs old (J. Hayes) 2 

Sir T. Stanley s br. g. by Sir Peter (J. Wilden) 3 

Sir.W. W. Wynne's ch. g. by Glaucus, 5 yrs old 4 

Six to.4 on Sir R. Brooke*s gelding. — A very severe race, and won with 

great difficulty. 

Sweepstakes of lOgs. each, for all ages. — ^Twice round the Course. 

Eight subscribers. 
J^ord Grey's b. f. Stella, by Sir Oliver, out of Scotilla, 4 yr» old, Sst 

6lb. (R. Spencer) , . I 

Sir T. Stanley's b. f. OJivera, 3 yrs old, 7st. 3lb 2 

Mr. Price's b. c. Ambo, 3 yrs old, 78t. 5lb '.,, 3 

Mr. Cholmondeley's Miss Cheese, 3 yrs old, 7st. lib 4 

Mr. Astley's br. m. Elve, 5 yrs old, 8st. lOlb « 5 

^'wo to 1 on Ambo. — ^A well-contested race to the end, the first three 

being within a neck of each other. 

Handicap Stakes of 20gs. each. — Once round and a distance. — Six sub- 
scribers. 
Sir W. W. Wynne's b. c. by Diamond, dam by Alexander,, 3 yrs old, 

6st. (J. Ruddock) , I 

Mr. £^erton*8 br. c. Hit-or-Miss, by Haphazard, 4 yrs old, 7^t ISlb. 

(T.Dunn) 2 

Sir R. Brooke's b. h. Glassblower, by Expectation, 6 yrsold>8st. 12lb. 

(R. Spencer) ^ 

Glassblower the favourite. — ^A severe race. 

The Silver Cup for Worses, &c. belonging to fanners. — ^Heats, twice 

round the Course. . 

Mr. Shaw's gr. g. Drunkard, by Cheshire-Cheese, ^jn old, 11 at 

41b, (W. Houghton) 4 1 I 

Mr. Latham's b. g. Driver, by Symmetry, 4 yrs old, llst.4lb. ..143 
Mr. Crouchley's ch. m. Charmer, by Horatio, 5 yrs old, 128t. . . 8 6 2 

Mr. Parson's b. g. Union, by Gift, 5 yrs old, 1 1st. 1 lib 5 3 4 

Mr. Rathhone's hr.ni. I^oughton, by Old Tatt, 6 yrs, IJst. lllb. 3 2 5 
Mr. Bostock's b. g. Stoven, by Alexander, 4 yrs old, 1 1st. 4lb. ..650 
Mr. Harrison's br. g. Careless, by Cheshire<<^hee$e, 3 yrs old, 

1 1st. 41b '. . . ::\ . ^77 

Mr. Edwards's b. g. Hopeful,^ by Qld Tatt, 4 yrs old, 1 1st, 1 lib. 9 9^ 
Ifir. Ashton s br. m. Old Peg, by Old Tatt, 5 yrs, list lllb, ..7^9 

Ei^CES CONCLUDED FOR 1812. 



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RABING INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. 



NOMINATIONS FOR 1813. 



CATTERICK.BRIDGE MEETING. 

I^EDNESDAY, April 2I.--<-***Tbc Craven 6tMkes uf lOp. each, for 
aii agts.-^-^One mile and « <|tt«rter. — Eiji^ht su^scriliers. — ^To be 
named on Thursday^ April 15, the day of entrance for the 50l. Plate. 

The Produce Stakes of 25gs. each, h ft. for colts, Sst. 3ll). fillies, Bst.r— 

Those got by untried Stallions, to he altowed 3U).— Two miles. 
Mr. Wetherell's gr. c. Darlington, by Sir Harry Ditnsdale, out of Don- 

* caster'9 dam, allowed 3lb. 
ilr. Mason*s gr. c. by Sir Harry Dimsdale, dam by Dragon, 3lb, 
Mr W. Gerard's b. c. by Beningbrough, out of Mary^Ami. 

VV. Gerard's ch. c. by Young Chariot or Windle, dam by Buzsard, 
3lb. 

BIr. G. Linton's cb, f. by Iteraembrancer, dan» by Overton, 3lb. 
Mr. Richardson's b. f. Venus de Medicis, by Whiskey, out of L'Huile 

de Venus's dam. 
Mr. Dinsdale's cb. c.iiy Young Pt|mtor, out of Zeliu^a, dlb« 
I>uke of Leeds's b. f. by Beningbrough, out of Fraxiitellvi. 
Colonel Horton's b.g. by Williamson's Ditto, dam by Sir Peter. — S<1ld 

to Mr. Baker, 
Mr. Burke's ch. f. by Beningbrough^ dam by Stride. — Sold to Mr. Wi- 

tham. 
Mr. BrandUng's br. c. Cha^rin« by Sancho, dam by Oberon, Sib. 
Mr. Fothergill's gr. c. Harry Plancagenct, by St. George, out of Irene, 

3lb.— Sold to Sir Wm. Wynne. 
■ Mr. Fothergill's gr. c. Morning Star, by St. George, outof Hegira, 3lb. 

^cepstakes of dOgs. each, JOgs. ft. for coUs rising three years old, 8st, 

3lb. fillies, 8st. — ^Two miles. 

JDulce of Leeds's clu c. Brother toOctavian, l>y Stripling. 

Lord Queensberry's b. c. by Statiiford, dam by Worthy; 

Mr. Harrison's ch. f. Easter, by Eemembrancer^ dam by Cockfighter, out 
of Legerdemain's dam. ' 

Jib. S. CoolsoD*s b. f. by Random, dam by Expectation, out of Tipple 
Cyder. 

Sir H. V. Tempest's br. c. Molineux, by Hambfetpnian, dam by Shuttle* 
grandam by Overton. 

Mr. Sbafto's b. c. by Shuttle, (or Hambletonian) dam by A ntanis, gran- 
dam by Young Marsk. — Sold to the Duke of Leeds. 

Mr. W. Hutchinson's b. c. by Remembrancer, dam by the Brother to 
Eagle.-— Sold to Lord Qiiecnsberry. 

Ifis, G. Linton's cb. c. t)y Remembrancer, out of Gratitude's dam. 

* Lord Queensberry's b. c. by Rememliranccr, out of Llewellyn's dam, 

8st. 3lb. agst Sir B. Graham's gr, t*. by EvandeV, dau^ by Expcc^tion, 

^st. two miles, lOOgs. h. ft. 

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Mr. TV. HatclilnBon*fl b. c. Brother to 8UviOi» hfii. 0«or^»'|kt. apt 

Lord Queensherry^B b. f. Caroline, by Bcmembraoccr, ftt 7^K ooeimk 
and a half, lOOgs. b. ft. 

THURSDAY.— The Oid Stakes of lOgs. eacb^ colli, 8st. 3lb. ffliei, 
8st. — Two miles. 

Duke ot Leeds's cb. c. Brotber to Octavian, by Striplings 
Mr. Dimcombe*s b. f. by Stamford, ilam by Dragon. ' ^ 

Mr. Ridley's b. f. by Sorcerer, daoi by HaiubletoiuMi^ vrnt of Qoldeh 

Locks. 
Mr. Lonsdale's br. c;by Midnigbt, dam by Archer. 
Mr. Biandliug's bi*. c. Cbagrin, by Sancbo, dam by Oberon. 
Mr. G. Linton 8 cb. c. by Rciucoibrancer, out of Gratitude's dam. 
Sir W. Maxivell's b. c. Fricsly, by Remembrancer, dam by L'Oriept. 
8ir £. Smith's cb. c. by Bcuingbrougb, out of Quill's dam. 
Mr. Warnsford's cb. f. May-Day, by Saiicbo,out of RoTediao*8 dam. . 

Siv«e|*6talves of 20gs. each, for Allies rising three yems oU« M.-^n* 

mile and a half. 
Duke of Leeds's If^ay, by Beningbrougb, out of FrsxioeUa. 
Mr. Duocombe's bay, by Stamford, dam by Dragon. 
Sir B. Graham's grey, by Evander, dam by Expectation. 
Mr. Riddeli's brown, Encore, by WilliAmsoD's Ditto, dau by Star.. 
Mr. G. Linton's cbesnut, by Remembrancer, dam by Overton. 
Mr. Maitland's bay, Cap**a-pee, by bancbo, dam by Pipator. • 

Sweepstakes of 20gs. each, for colts rising two years old^ Sst. 3lb. fillieSi 

8st. — One mile. 
Duke of Leeds's h. f. by Orville, out of Trumpetta. 
Sir B. Graham's b. c. by Cardinal York, (or Pandolpbo) dam by Waxy.* 
Mr. Laml)ton*s b. c. Adventurer,' by Haphazard, dam by Volanteer. 
Lord Strathmore's b. f. by Hermes, out of Vicissitude. 
Mr. Dinsdale's b. c. by Beningbrough, dam by Drone. 
Mr. Brandling's b. c. Tasnia, by Braiuworm, dam by Pegasus, ootof 8«B* 

cho's dam. 
Mr. Scarisbrick's b. c. by 9tav«iey, chim by Moorcock. 
Sir W. Maxwell's b. c. by Grazier, dam by Stamford. 

Sweepstakes of 20g8. each, for all ages. — ^Two miles. 
Mr. Barrett's b. f. Sarissa, by Delpini, 3 yrs old, 7st. 1 lib. 
Lord Belhaven's br. c. by Master Robert, dam by Highflyer, 3 Jrrs ok!; 

7st. nil). 

Sir W. Maxwell's gr. c. Viscount, by Stamford, 3 yrs old, 8st. 
Mr. Fletcher's b. c. Sligo, by Shuttle, 3 yrs old, 8st. 
Lord Qiieensbenry'S b. c. Llewellyn, by' St. George, 3 yrs old, 8st. 
Duke of Leeds's b. f Rebecca, by Sir Solomon, 4yi'sold, 8st. flh, 
Mr. Duncombe's b. f. Phantom, by Hambletoni8n,4 yrs, Cst. 7Jfc* 
Mr. Riddeli's b.c. X, Y, Z, by Haphazard, 4 yr$ old, Sst. 10!b. 

. No day mentioned. — Lord Queensberry's b. c. Llewellyu, by S9l 
Gc'ojgej'agst Sir W. Maxwell's b. c. Tam-a-Sbanter, by HambletoniaUy 
(bought of Mr. Smallwood) 7st. 7\h. each, two niiles, lOOgs. h. ft. 
*♦* The Port Stakes close on the 1st of January. 

OATLANDS 



THE HAdNQ CALENDAR. 4f 

OATLANDS STAKES, 1813. 

• • • • • • 

^ SWEEPSTAKES of SOgsi each, b. fti and only lOgs. ft. if declared 
to Mr. Weatherby, at Newmarket, or in Oxenden-street, on or be- 
fore tUe 30th day of December, 1812. To be run for on the Tuesday 
U) the Craven Meeting, 1813,' D. T. If there shofuld be sixteen Sub- 
scribers, or more, after the lOgs. forfeits are declared, the Stakes arc to 
be divided, and two Classes formed, to run on Tuesday and Wednesday 
in the same Meeting. And if twenty-four Subscribers, or more, after 
the lOgs. forfeits are declared, the Stakes to be divided and three Classes 
formed ; the first to run on Monday, the second on Tuesday, and the 
third on Wednesday, in the same Meeting. The forfeits of lOgs. are to 
be given to the owner of the second horse, and if two or more Classes^ 
to be divided betweed the owners of the second' horses. 

Jges, 8t lb. 

Lord C. H. Somerset*s Scorpion aged Q 4 

Sir J. Shelley's Phantom ., ^ ,,..,... 4 yrs g 4 

Mr. Glover's Slender Billy 4 yr» Q $ 

Mr. Payne's Crispin 5 yrs 9 ^ 

Lord G. H. Cavendish's Middlethorpe 6 yrs 9 O 

Mr. Milton's Florival 6 yrs 9 O 

Mr. Goddard's Cambric : 5 yrs 8 12 

Dnke of Rutland's Grimalkin 4 yrs 8 13 

Duke of Rutland's Sorcery 4 yrs 8 11 

Mr. Pigott's York aged $ II 

Mr. Ladbroke's Whalebone ...•6yrs 8 11 

Mr. Pigott's Mautidamuu 5 yrs 8 10 

Lord Jersey's lavalid « , » aged 10 

Mr. Biggs's Camerlon 4 yrs 8 10 

Mr. Lambton's Legerdemain •• 4 yrs 8 9 

Col. Williams's Worcester 4 yrs 8 7 

Mr. Bigg8*s Demetrius • .... 4 yrs 8 

Mr. Cope's Shoe-strings 4 yrs 8 tf 

Lord Jersey's Langton «... , . • . aged 8 6 

Mr. Lake's Seymour ; 5 yrs 8 H 

Mr. Goddard's Romana 5 yrs 8 3 

Mr. Astley's Magic 4 yrs • 4 

Mr. Ladbroke's Hamlet ..... « 4 yrs 8 4 

Mr. Hallett's Coelebs 4 yrs 8 4 

Mr. Rawlinson's Topsy-Turvy aged 8 SI 

Mr. Barlow's Merryfield 4 yrs 8 % 

Mr. Ladbroke's Octavius 8 yrs 9 2 

Blr. Wyndham's colt, byGobaona, oat of Amazon ..8 yrs 8 O 

Dnke of Grafton's Woeful 8 yrs 8 

Mr. Wyndham's Orelia , 4 yrs 7 12 

Mr. Blake's Atalauta 4 yrs 7 10 

Major Wilson's Bolter 4 yrs J g 

Dttke of Grafton's Pope Joan 3 yrs 7 8 

Mr. Craven's Tooley 3 yrs f § 

Diike of Grafton's Joe Millar « ...... 3 yrs 7 5 

Mr. 



4t THB BACINO CALENBAIfa 

! .' . ^ Ages, it. Jh» 

Mr. Blake*s Rapid 4 yra 7 5 

Lord G. H. Cavendisirs HandeY ^ ; . . . 3 y r& 7 S. 

Gen. Grosvcpor's Defiance 3 yrs . 7 3 

Major WiU8n*8 S^iudeHs 3 yrs 7 2 

Mr. Glover's Mulberry :...a yt» 7 

Mr. Lake ft Venture 3 yr» 6 13 

Mr. Kellermann*s Ptolediy .1 :...... 3 yrs 6 10 

Mr, Crockforci*^ Pandora, by Evander 3 yrs 6 10 

Mr. Crockford*8 filly, by Ditto 3 yrs 6 10 

Mr. Payne's Lady Sophia. . » ." 3 yrs 6 ;10 

Lord Jeisey's Orson , 3 yrs 6 10 

Mr. Lake*s Boaster 1 . . 3 yrs 6 f 

Lord Foley's Maria . , 3 yrs 6 H 

Major Wilson^s bl. g. by Sorcerer, dam by Stamford 3 yrs ^ ^. 

Mr. Batson's Pranks.-. .•.•.•. ... ..-. .....'...••..... 3 yrs 6 5 

Mr. Kades's Accident * </ w «.....*«•. ^r 3 yrs 6 4 

Mr. Lambton's Robin .Adair -. 3 yrs ' 6 

Mr. IVevaniort'8 Childe Harold ... 3 vrs 6 



DURHAM MEEttNG, 1813. 

(N. B. When thi» MeAttpg Ms in April, the Ages qi the Hones are eoacidered as if if 

had been-in May.) . 

^H£ Trial Stakes of.SQgs. eficii^ p. p., for two^years-oki colts, 8st 3lb. 
"^ ftUies. — Qiice rouod., — ^Tbree subscribers or no race.— -Clo^d tbc 
1st ol* January. 

'X\ie Old Stakes of K)g8% eacfa, p^ p. witb 20g8^ .aiUM by the Toi^v, fbr 
' tlif«e-year-o)d cbk8,<8st. 6lb. fiUles, 8it .2lb.-^Tw<i miles.— Five so)h 
'. scrfbers or no racet — Closed -on the Jst of January. 

A Sweepstake's of lOgs; eacb, p. p. witir 20gi. added by tbc Town, far 
four-years-old co!rs, Ssi. 3lb. tilHes, 8st.-^Tiirec miles. — Pour sub- 
scfibei-s or ^o r^ce.-— t^lb^d on die 1 sr ot^ Jandary. 

,The Cold Cu|^j vajue lOOgs'. (tlie surplus*^ if any/ in specie). Ivy a Sub- 
.. scnption fi| 10§[S«. each, p. p. Witli 20i;8. added liy the Town^ for tbree- 
. yef|i'-olds^ ^$t. 7^b. four-year-dlds, 8st. five-yea r-plds, 8st, lOlb. six* 
. yejir-olds i^^d «§€<!» j)?t.— Mures and ^eldiiigs allowed 3 lb. — Three 
... njiies.— '£iirbf subscribers or no race.— -Closed on the Ist of January.. 
♦The Lambton Hunt Stakes. of 5gs^ each.— tTwo^-mile heats,— To close on 

'" '• theiaistof Macch.. 

The Miinters" Stakes of 7g9. each-.— T*vo miles and a distance. — ^Todose 

oii tbe fsft'6f April. 

.The second y^ai: oTtbeLanibtciri and' S^dgefietd Hunt Farmers' Plate <rf 

''■ 50l:-^Two.ftiile heats. 

,A Silver Cup, yaliie iogs. and 3p^s. in hfnecie^ giVien by J.G. LiUfgtpu, 
\ Es(j. f()i- Farmers of the Lambton rtiU)t,7--Two-mn€ beats. 

The Two Sewmy-Pouud PLUvs us asiiuL — ^Tl^ horses, &c. for all the 
' _ \ ."^takes,. CO l)c naaued to.Mi'. T« Cbi^icbase. 



THE RACING CALENDAR. 4^ 

RACING INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. 



NOMINATIONS FOR 1813- 



, KEVVMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 1913.— OATLANDS 

STAKJBS. 

TtTONDAY, April 19. ^The finit Class of the Oatlands Stakes of 

^^ 50g8. each, h. ft.— D. I. * 

# Jgm. U. lb.' 

Dake of Rutland's Sorcery ,. 4 yrs 8 11 

Lord Jersey's Langton ^ aged 8 6 

Mr. Ladbroke's Hamlet 4 yr$ 8 4 

Mr. Barlow's Merryfield 4 yrs 8 ' * 

Mr. Blake's Atalaora 4 yrs 7 10 

I>uke of Grafton's Pope Joan 3 yrs T Q 

Lord G. H. Cavendish's Handel * 3 yrs 7 3 

Major Wilson's Spotless 3 yrs 7, ^ 

JMr. Glover's Mulberry 3 yrs 7 

Mr.,Lake's Venture ,3 yrs <> 13 

Mr. Keiiermann's Ptolemy , 3 yrs 6 10 

Mr. Batson's Pranks 3 yrs 6 $ 

Mr. ^ades's Accident 3 yrs 6 4 

^Ir. ^ambton's Robin Adair • • • • « • 3 yrs 6 

TUESDAY.— The second Class of the Oatlands Stakes of 50gs. eacb» 
b. ft.— D. I. 

Mr. Payne's Crispin .5 yr* 9 2 

Lord G. H. Cavendish's Middlethorpe 6 yrs Q O 

Mr. Milton's Florwal 6 yrs 9 O 

Duke of Rutland's Grimalkin .•..>. 4 yrs 8 12 

Jkfr. Pigotf s Yorit aged a II 

Mr. Ladbroke's Whalebone » . . . 5 yrs 8 11 

Mr: Lambton's Legerdemain 4 yi*s 8 9 

Mr; Goddard's Romaixa .«..,« ..5 yrs 8 5 

Mr. Astley's Magic . « 4 yrs 8 4 

Dake of Grafton's Woeful ,..,. ..3 yrs 8 O 

Mr^ Wyndham*s Qrelia 1 . 4 yra 7 ^ 

Gen. Grosvenor's Defiance 3 yrs 7 3 

Mr. Lake*s Boaster '\ : 3 yrs 6 7 

Mr. Trevanion's Childe Harold 3 yrs . 6 O 

W£DNESDAY.-*-Tbe third Class^ of the Oatlands Stakes of 50gs. 
each, li. ft.'— J). I. 

Mr. Glover's Slender Billy 4 yrs 9 3 

Mr. Goddard's Cambric ^ yrs 8 12 

Mr. PigottfsMautidaiOttn -..5 yr« 8 10 

- Mr. La^'s Seymour ..«.^«^». •••••••» ••««A yn . 9 ff 

K Vqj.. XLL— No. 244. JH Mr. 



* THE KAClNG CALENDAlL 

Mr. LarU)roke*s Octavius 3 yrt S t 

Mr. Wyndhain*s b. c. bvGohanna, outof Amazon. .3 yrt 8 (> 

Mr. Craven's Tooley. , .' , « . 3 yrs J 8 

Diike of Grafton's Joe Miller 3 yrs 7 * 

Mr, Crqckford's b. f. by Ditto 3 yn 6 10 

Mr. Piyne's Lady Soj^hia 3 yn 6 10 

iiord Jeisey*8 0»on 3 yrt 6 10 

Lprd FoWt Maria 3 yrt 6 6 

Major Wilson's bl. g. by Sorcerer^ dam by Stamford 3 ytt 6 & 

I'ibe following Immg declared forfeit by tbe 30th of December, are f 
pay but logs, each, to be divided amongtt tlM ownert of Ae second 
borset in tfa^ three Classes : 

Lord'C. H. Sonjersef s Scorpion ; . . . ; Hged 9 ^ 

Sir J. Sbelley'fe PhVintom 4 yrt ff 4 

l^rd jersey's Invatid ^ aged 8 10 

Ir. B1ggs*8 Carterton < 4 yrt 8 10 

Jol. Williams's Wbrcetter r-^ y^ ^ ^ 

[r. Bigg8*B Dbmetritit 4yrt € 6 

[r, Cope't Sboe-stringt 4 yrt 8 S 

tr. flailett't Coelebs 4 yrt 8 4 

Mr. ]^aw]inton's Topsy-Turry aged 8 ^ 

^ Tajor Wilsou'i Bolter 4 yn 1 9 

[r. ttake'slfapiij, ..;...;.•..•.•.•,.•.,./..*.... ...4 yrt 7 ^ 

[r. tHrockf ord's Pandora', by Eivander ..,.••• 3 y^ ^ It 



1 

I 



NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MlSBtlin}. 

Accepiancei for the Free HandiUqm, 

|L|ONDA Y, May S.-r-^-Sweepttaket of lOOgt. each, h. ft.— 4Se«i^ 

- Course, 

tt A. 

Lord C. H. Somerset's Scorpion ..,*^ ••..^•.•^ 9 

Lord G. H. Cavendish's Middletborpe a\ . . « 9 

Lord Sackville's Donoa Clara. .«..«...«« 8 

•Duke of St. Albans's Cambrian 7 1^ 

' TUESDAY.— Sweepstakes of lOOgs*. wK b. ft.^t. M. ii. 

>fr. felover'8 Slender Billy ;. ..fl 1 

Mr. Payne's Tfuffie '. 9 

jtofid Foley's SootJMay^ ^.:. ...... ..w „.,. .9 

Duke of Rutland's Grimalkin , 4 .. 8 13 

Lor^ G. H. Cavendish's Betblem Gn^ber ^ . <^ ............ 8 ^ 

JMr. Wvndham's Orelia ' 8 3 

vMr.iiUke's ijprijfhtly^ ^ ' *.8 2 

VMr. Astley's Jliai^c , x.^ ^ 

^eipstakcf 



THE RACING CALENDAR* St 

Swceprtakes <^ lOQgs. cMfa, h. it-^cnxs tht Rat 

Mr. LadbroWs OctaTiiis » ,•♦•9 Q 

Pake of Riidaiici*s Elisabeth !••!•• 3 Jl 

Sir J. Sbel]ey*s Comin ,,*»,Sli 

Liord Foley't b. c. by RemembraDcer, out of Beatrice 8 14 

liord G. H. CayeDdisb*8 Cat 9 g 

Mr. Lake's Pointers ^ 8 5 

Mr. Giover*s Miilbeny J JO 

Mr. FarrelFs Grace 7 f 

Mr. Trevanion's Childe HarolH ,7 f 

Mr. Biggs's Lamia jr a 

Sweepstakes of lCX)gs. each, h. ft. — ^T. Y. C. 

LordSackviile'sLady of the Lake 8 f 

Mr. Batson*sb. g. Brother to Briseis ^•.•S $ 

Gen. Gower*s Anastasia , , • • • 8 

Mr. Payne*s Lady Sophia ^ 7 10 

Mr. Keliernian*s Ptolomy ,,.. ....,»»7 8 

Mr. Andrew's Calyba .,.7 7 



• 



YORK SPRING MEETING, 1813. 



M' 



ONDAY, June 1.— -Sweepstakes of 20gs. each, for horses, &c. olf 
all age8.-*->7wo ^iles. 

9t lb. 

Duke of Leeds's ch. h. Mowbray, aged 9 4 

Lord Fitzwilliam*s br. c. Algernon, 4 yrs pld .J 8 6 

Mr. Buncombe's b. c, Langold, 4 yrs old • .... 8 5 

Lord Scarbrougb's b. c. CaCton,.4 yrs old 8 S 

Mr. Fletcher's b. c' Sligo, 4 yrs old 8 6 

Mr. Hewett's b. f. Manuella, 4 yrs old 8 6 

Mr. Brandling's b. c. Geranium, 4 yrs old ...... .' 8 3 

Mr. Rob's b. c- Otterington, 4 yrs old '• 8 6 

Sir B. Graham's gr. f. by Evander, dam by ^pectation, 3 yrs old $ 7 

The Saj^Qg Stakes of ^Ogs. each, h. ft. for three-yeai-s-old fillies,. flit . 

2lb. — Last mile and half. 
Lord Milton*s hay, Platowna, by Sir Paul, out of Evelina. 
Mr. Brandling* s bay, Jezebel, by Orville, out of Sylph. 
Duke of Hamilton's bay, Deborah, by Governor, dam by Spadille. 
Duke af Leeds's bay, by Dick Andrews, out of Gammar Gnrton. 
Mr. W. Hutchinson's bay, by Remembrancer, dam bv Sir Peter. 
Mr. N. B. Hodgson's chesnut, Catherine, by PatfQcUis, out of Tropbd^ 

nius's dam* 
Mr. T. Dancombe'sbay, by Stamford, dam by Dragon. 
Mr. Kirby's bay. Speedwell, by Orville, out of Trum|>etta. 
Mr. CouIson*s chesnut, by St. George, dam b v a Brother Co Recniit 
Mr. Gascoigne's chesnut^ by Sorcerer, out ot Tooe. 

H 2 t>ukc 



52 THE RACING CALENDAR; 

Duke of Leed8*6 b. c. by Sancbo, oat of Rover's dam, ngst Sir M. M. 
£ykes*8 b. c. by Sancbo, out of Sir Mariners Sister, 8st. 3ib. eacb^ last 
mile and a baif, 200gs. b. ft. 

Duke of Leeds's cb. f. by Selim, dam by Stride, grandam by Drone, 
8st. agst Mr. Vernon's cb. c. Hocus Pocus, by Quiz, dam by Alexander, 
8st. 3lb. last mile and balf, 200gs. b. ft 

Duke of Leeds's b. f. by Beningbrougb, out of Palma, against Mr. 
Vernon's b. f. by Orville, out of Bronze, iast mile, and balf, 300gs. b. ft. 

Sweepstakes of 20gs. each, for tbree -years-old colts, 8st. 3lb. fillies, 8st. 

Last mile and tbree quarters. 
- Dnke of Leeds's ch.c. Brotberto Octayian. 
Duke of Leeds's b. c. by Hambletonian or Shuttle, dam by Antxus. 
SirG. Armytage's b. c. Tiger, by Sir Paul, dam by Buzzard. 
Liord Fitzwilliam's b. c. CameU Leopard, by Camillus, out of Minstrel. ' 
Mr. Brandling's Squire, by Sancbo, dam by Stamford. 
Mr. Dalrym|>le's br. o. Tomboy, by Ditto, dam by Coriander. 
Mr. Garforth's gr. c. by Camillus, dam by Ruler. 
Mr. Watt's br. c. by Dick Andrews, dam by Trumpator. 

Duke of Leeds's Tarquin, by Stripling, agst Sir B. Grahani*s Biscuit, 
by Brown-Bread, 8st. 4lb. eacb, two miles, 200gs. b. ft. 

Duke of Leeds's b. f. by Orville, out of Truujpetta, 8st. agst Mr. Ver- 
non's cb. c. by Dick Amlrews, dam by Beningbrougb gr Zacbariab, Sst. 
3lb. Two-year-Olds' Course, 300gs. b. ft. 

TUESDAY. — Sweepstakes of 50gs. eacb^ h. ft. for tbrec-years-oM 

colts, Sst. 3 lb. — Last mile and tbree quarters. 

X/Ord Fitzwilliam's cbesnnt, Rodrigo, by Sancbo, out of Fanny. 

Lord Milton*s bay. Fugitive, by Camillus, out of Cecilia. 

Mr. Brandling's bay, by Dick Andrews, dam by Sir Peter. 

Dtike of Hamilton's brown, by Governor, out of Miss Hawortb. 

Duke of Leeds's bay, by Sancbo, out of Rover's dam. 

Duke of Leeds's grey, by Pandolpbo, out of Pbilippic's dam. 

SirE. Smith's cbesmit, by Beningbrougb, out of Quid's dam. 

Mr. Wetherell's grey, by Sir Harry Dinisdale, out of Doncaster's dam. 

Mr. Bmton's bay, by Evander, out of Cliftie's dam. 

Mr. W. Hutcbinson's bay, by Remembrancer, dam by a Brotber to 
Eagle, out of Maida's dam. 

Mr. N. B. Hodgson's grey, by Patroclus, out of Priscilla. 

Mr. G. Crompton's cbesnut, Sweet Willy O ! by Ditto, out of Rosa- 
mond. ^ 

Sir M. M. Sykes's cbesnut, Don Raphael, by Dick Aodrews, out of Lady 
Rachel. 

Mr. T. Sykes's grey, Wentborpe, by Evander, out of Lauocelot's dam. 

Mr. Gascoicoe's bay, by Sancbo, out of Grimaldi's dam. 

Sweepstakes of lOOgs. ea(?h, b. ft. colts, Sst. 7lb. fillies, Sst. — ^Two 

' miles. 
Duke of Leeds's cb. c. Tarquin, by Stripling. '' 
Rjr M. M. Sykes's br. f. by Sancho, out of Hornpipe Teazle. 
1Si\r B. Graham's b. c. Biscuit, by-Brown Bread. - 

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THE RACING CALENDAR. M 

Mr. Watfs b. c. Tom Tit, by Dick Andrews. 
Lord Fitzwilliam-s b. c. Algernon, by Orville. 

Sweepstakes. of 20gs. eacb, for threc-years-old fillies^ 88t. Slb.^-rLast 

mile and balf. 
Mr. G. Linton's cbesnut. Miss PJatoff, by Remembrancer, dam by 

Overton. 
Mr. R. Hiirs cbesnut, by Sir Reginald, dam by Coriander. 
Duke of Leeds*s chesnut, by Selim, dvim by Stride, (bred by Colonel 

Leigb.) 
Mr. Garforth's grey, by Sancbo, out of Vesla. 
Mr. Watt*8 cbesDut, Altisidora, by Dick Andrews. . 

WEDNESDAY. — Sweepstakes of 30gs. eacb, lOgs. ft. for t wo-ycart- 
old coIt», 8st. 2lb. fillies, 8st. — ^Two-year-Olds* Course. 
Mr. Lambton's b. c. Adventurer, by Haphazard, dam by Volunteer. 
Mr. Vernon's cb. c. by Dick Andrews, dam by Beniugbrougb or Ze^ 

cbariab. ^ 
Dtike of Hamilton's b. c, by Governor, dam by Spadille. 
Duke of Leeds's b. f. Speedwell, by Orville, out of Trumpetta. 
Sir B. Graham's colt, by Pandolpho or Cardinal York, bought at Sir 

John Lawson's Sale. 
Sir M. M. Sykes's b. f. Miss Applcton, by Hyacinthns, dam byOrmoad. 
Lord Fitzwiliiam's ch. c. by Dick Andrews, out of Mary. 
Mr. Fletcher's b. c. by Remembrancer, out ofStaveley's dam. 
Mr. Dawson's b. c. by Dick Andrews, dam by Worthy. 
Mr. Scarisbrick's bl. c. by Staveley, dam by Moorcock. 
Mr. Scarisbrick's b. c. by Brainworni, dam by Pegasus. 
Mr. Wattes br. f. Sister to Master Richard. 

The Constitution Stakes of 20gs. each, h. ft. for all ages. — One mile and 

a quarter. 

st, Ih, 

Duke of Hamilton's b. h. Sqnih, 5 yrs old 8 Q 

Duke of Leeds's b. f. by Beninghrough, out of Fraxinella, 4 yrs 

old 8 6 

Sir G. Arroytage's b. f. Pope Joan, 4 yrs old 8 b 

Sir M. M* Sykes's b. f. by Sancbo, out of Hornpipe Teazle, 4 yrs 

old 8 O 

Lord Scarbrough's b. c. Catton, 4 yrs old , 8 O 

Mr. Fletcher's b. c. Sligo, 4 yrs old 8 O 

Mr. Brandling's b. c. Geranium, 4 yrs old 8 O 

Mr. Rob's b. c. Otterington, 4 yrs old • 8 O 

Duke of Hamilton's b. If. Deborah, by Governor, dam by Spadille, 

3 yrs old 5 10 

Mr. Vernon's b. c. Salamanca, by Sancbo, out of Eliza, 3 yrs old. . 5 10 
Sir B. Graham's gr. filly, by Evander, dam by Expectation, 3 yrs 

old ! 5 10 

Mr. T. Duncombe's b. f. by Stamford, bought at Colonel Childers'c 

sale, 3 yrs old 5 10 

Lord Fitzwiliiam's b. c. Sogitive^ byCsauillus, 3 yrs old «...-.«.. 5 IQ 

Mr. 



54 THB RACING CALENDAIL 

Mr. Gatcoigne*8 b. c. by Sanefao, ool of Wtyaeck, 3 yrs oM . . • . 5 It 
Mr. N. B. Hodgson 8 ch. £. Catberine^ iby Pjitrocius, out of Xro- 
fboiiiii5*» &.ai> 9 yfs oM 5 10 

%* Tbe Stamll^aite of SOl as usual. 



Sir B.*R. Graham, ®**^- \ e#g«^-a. 

Gilbert Cromptok, £so. J 



YORK AUGUST JSPETING, 18J«. 

TITONDAY. ^TbePfodooe Stflkfs of lOGgs. eacb,b. ft. 6>rl<wr- 

-^'^^ years-oW qolts, 8st. 7lb. fillies, 8st. 4lb.— Fonr milcs.--Tho»e got by 

untried Stallions, &c. allowed 3lb. 

Lord Fitzwilljam*8 bl. C. by Paynator, out of Mary, 3lb. 

Sir M. M. Syke8*s b. f . by Sancbo, out of Hornpipe Teazle, 3lb. 

Sir M. M, Sykas's b. f. ScancataWi, by Sancho, out of Teazle Horn- 

pipe, 31b. . 
Duke of Leeds's b. f. by Barnaby or Beningbrougb, dttm by iSir Peter, 

3lb. 
Mr. T. Sykes's b. c. Young Delpini, by Delpini, out of Sir Launcel©ff 

dam. 
Mr. T.Sykes's cb. f. Maria, by Sancbo, out of Gratitude, 3lb. 
Lord Milton's b. f. Alarum, by Remembrancer, out of Cecilia, Sib. 
Mr. Wiilien's cb. f. by Remembrancer, out of Charmer, 3lb. 
Mr. T. Dunoombe*8 b. c. Hermit, by Chance, dam by Pegasus, 9lb. 
Duke of Hamilton's b.f. by Governor, out of Rosaletta, 3lb. 
Mr. Grimston's b. c. by Sancbo, out of Alonzo's dam, 3lb. 

Sweepstakes of 200gs. ^acb, b, ft. 8st. 3lb. each.-:— Two miles. 
Dnke of Leeds's b. c. by Hambletonian or Shuttle, dam by AntsBOS. 
Sir M. M. Sykes's br. c. by Saocho, out of Sir Marrinel's Sister. 
Lord Fitzwilliam's b, c. by Sir Paul, out of Orville's Sister. 

Duke of. Leeds's b. c.by Hambletonian pr Shuttle, dam by Ant«a»» 
♦gst Mr. Vernon's cb. c. by Quiz, dam by Alexander, 8st. 2lb. }ast mile 
^nd three quarters, 200gs. b. f (. 

TEJfiSDAY^^Sweepatakes of 20pf8. each, for two-yearttold calU, 

88t. 51b. fillies, 88t. 2lb.~Two-year.01ds' Course. 

Lor<l FitzwilUam?8 b. f. by Orville, out of Minstrel. 

Sir M. M. Sykes's gr. c.by Camillus, out of Hornpipe Teazle. 

Mr. Lambton's-b.c. Adventurer, by Haphazard, dam by Volunteer. 

Duke of ^Hamilton's b. c. by Governor, dam 'by Spadille. 

Mr. Fletcher's b. c. by Remembrancer, out of Staveley'sdam. 

Mr. Boswell's b. c. by John B41II, out of Monica. 

Mr. Dawson's b. f. by Omile, dam by Delpini. 

Mr. Scarisbrick's b. c. by ^taveley, dam by Moorcock. 

Mr. Scarisbrick's b, c. by Remembrancer, dam by Pegasus. 

Mr. T. Dimcombe*8 b. c. by Sultan, out of Jemima. 

Mr. Watt'« br. f. Sister to Master Richard. 

Mr. R. Johnson's b. c. by Sir Pa«l, dam by S^ar. 

The 



TKE RACING CALENDAIL ' » 

The>ere|;rine Stakes of 50g^. each, h. ft. ecAts, 8st ^. fillip mt^-^ 

One mile ao'd three-quarters. 
Puke of Leeds's fo. f^ by Dick Andrews, out of Gamiuer GtirCott. 
JDuke of JLeeds*s cb. f. by Selim^ dam by Stride^ bought of Colond 

Leigh. 
.Liord Fitzwi11iam*s b. c. Camel-Leopard, by Camillus, out of Minstrel. 
Duke of .Hamilton's b. c. Sampson, by Sancho, dam by Beningbrbugh^ 
Lord Scarbrough*s b. c. Kexby, Brother to Catton^ by Oolumfkus. 
iiJir G. Armytage's b.c. Tigier^ by Sir Paul, dam by Buzzard. 
Mr. Garforth*s gr. c. by Camillas, dam by Ruler. 
llr. Watt's br. c. by Dick Andre^> dam byTrumpator. 

WEDNESDAV.— Sweepstakes of 50gs. eacb^ h. ft for three-jeinkr 
, •la colts, 8st. 2lb. fillies, f St. ISlb.— Tvrb miles. 
Lord Milton*s b. c. Camel- Leopard, by Camillus, out of Minsti*eL 
Xhikeof Leeds*s b. c. by Sancbo, out of Rover*s dam. 
Duke of Leeds's ch. c. by Stripling, outol Octayian*s dam. 
Mr. T. Sykes*s gr. c. Wenthorpe, by £yander, out of Sir Lauhcelotll 

dam. 
Mr. Gascoigne*s b. c. by Sancho, Out of Grimdldi*s dam. 
Mr. Gascoigne*s b. c. by Sancho, out of Wryneck. 
lAr. ITppkby^s colt, Patiick, by Sancho, dam by Beui'ngbrougb. 

Sweepstakes of lOOgs. each, h. ft. for four-years^oid coks^ Sst. 4lb« 

iiliies, 8st. — ^Tliree miles. 
Duke of Hamilton's b. c. Ash ton -Lad, by Shuttle. 
Duke of Leeds's b. c. by Young Woodpecker or Barnaby, out ef Fraxi« 

nelfa. 
'Duke of Leeds*s fUly, by a Brother to Recruit, out of Gammer Gurton. 
Sir £. Smith's ch. c. Zig-Zag, by Beningbrough, out of Quid's dam. 
Mr. T. puncombe*s b. c. Hermit, by Chance, dam by Precipitate. 

THURSI>AY.— -The Produce Stakes of ICfOgs. each, h. ft. for three-, 
years-old colts, 8st. 5\h. fillies, 8st. Slb.^^Two miles.— -Those got by un« 
tried Stallions, &c. allowed 3lb. 

Lord Fitzwilliani*s b.T. Plato wna, by Sir Paul, out of Evelina, 3lb. 

Lord FitzwUliBm's ch. c. Rodrigo^ by Sancho, out of Fanny, dlb. 
. Mr. G. Crompton'fi cfa. f. by Saacho,. out of Rosftberry/Slb. 

Mr. Clifton's br. c. Layton, by Warrior, dam by Lurcher, 3lb. 

Duke of Hamrilton's h«e. by Oovcrnor, oat of Misa H^vovth, dlb. 

Duke of Haiiii2(6»'8b. f. Henrietta, by Warrior, out of Crazy's daiii» 3lb« 

Mr. Brandlii^'s b. £. by Aiunzo, dam by Woodpecker, 3lb. 

Mr. Ridiardsbn'sb.f. Veiroa de Medjcis> by Whiskey, out of L'Haileile 
Venus's dam. 

Duke of Leeds*! cb. c. (dead) by Dick Andrews, oat of Duck. 

Duke of Leeds's b. f. by Bennigbrougb,>out of Fraxinella, 3lb. 
' Lord MRtOn's b. c. Camels-Leopard, by CamiHas, out of C«oilia^3tb. 

Mr. Linton's ch. c. by Remembrancer, out of Gratitude's dam^^lb. 

Mr. C. FothergiiVa gr. e. Harry naBita§aiiet, by St. George, out of Inti6^ 
alb. 



^ THE RACING CALENDAR* 

^ir M. M. $ykes*t b. c. I?y 6fin<;tio, out of Hornpipe Teazle, 3ft. 

Sir M. M. Svkes*s h. c. by Hainbletonian, out of Sancho*s dam. 

Sir M. M. Sykes's b. f. by Williamson's Ditto, out of Young Hachcf^ 

: 3lb. - 

Sir W. Gerard's li. c. by fieuingbrougbi out of Mary Ann. 

FRIDAY.— Sweepstakes of 50gs. each, 30gs. ft. for three-years-roU 
filfies, 8st. 2lb. each. — Last mile and three-qu«rters. 
Lord Scarhroiigb's bay, by Paynator, out of a Sister to Zodiac, 
Mr. Garforth's grey, by Sancbo, out of Vesta. 

Mr. Watt*8 chesnut, Altisidora, by Dick Andrews. ^ 

Mr. Grimston*s bay, by Sancho, dam by Hambletonian. 

• SATURDAY.— Siveepstakcs ofSOgs. each, 10g8.ft. for three-years- 
old colts, 8st.5lb. fillies, Sst. 2lb. — Last mile and a quarter. 
Duke of Leeds*s ch. f. by Selim, dam by Stride. 
Duke of Lee<ls*s b. c. by Hambletonlan, or Shuttle, dam by Antaeus. 
Lord Fitzwiltianfs b. c. Camel -Leopard, by Camillus. 
Duke of Hamilton's b. f. Deborah, by Governor, dam by Spadille. 
Duke of Hamilton's b. f. Henrietta, by Warrior, out of Crazy's dam. 
Mr. Maitland's b". c. by St. George, dam by Richardson's Marsk. 
Mr. T. Pearsoo's b. f.Miss Platoff, by San'cho (or Evander), out of Lap- 
wing. 
Mr. Garfurtb*8 gr. c. by Camillus, dam by Ruler. 
Mr. N. B. Hodgson's b. c. by Stamford, out of Woodman's dam, 
Mr. Watt's b. c. by Dick Andrews, dam by Trumpator. 

- Sir M. M. Sykes's b. f. by Williamson's Ditto, out of Sir Petroners 
dam, agst Mr. Brandling's b. f. Jezebel^ by Orviile, out of Sylph^Sst. 
each, the last mile, lOOgs. h. ft. 

Lord Fitzwilliam, • ^ 

Lord Darlington, ^Stewards. 

Sir George Armytage, BarI'.J 



DONCASTER MEETING, 1813. 

]i/fONDAY. ^Tke St. Leger Stakes of 25g8. each, for tUfee-yaars- 

*^^ old colls, Sst. alb. fillies. Set— The St. Leger CouT8e.~Fifty-oiie 

subscribers. 

Duke of Hamilton's b. f. Henrietta, by Warrior, out of Crazy^sdatn. 

Dukejof Hamikon's br. c. by GoTernor, out of A&btoo's dam. 

Lortl Scarbrough's b. c« Kexby, Biother to Catton, by Golmspiis. 
t Mr. Godfrey's, b. q. by Sir Oliver, out of Georgiautf, by Geotg^ 

Mr. Tomlinsou's ch. f. Sister to Pleader, by Stamford. 

Mr. Howjs6ii's b. f. by Paynator, dam by Hambfetoniaii. 

Lord Strathmore's b. c. by Remerabraocer^ out gi Beatrice. 

Mr. Gl. Lintoa's oh» c; Memory, by Remeabrancer, iout of Streamd^^ 
dam... 
, Mr.'Inrme's h. c. by Remembiascef , out of Th^ophanis. 

Sir W. Gerard's b. c. Brother to Oriaiia, by Beningbrough, 



tijte, RACING CALENDAR. 57. 

Mr. Sdao^sbritV^ b. c. by Sancrho, dam by OVeron, bought btlVIr. Trotter 

Lord Queensberry*s br. c. by Sancho, out of Beningbrouj^h's Sister. 

Lord Fitzwilliam*« b-. c. Camd-Leo^^ard, by Cabiillus. 

Lord Mfttofl^s cb. c. flodr'fgo, by Sancb'o, "^out of Fauhy. 

Mr. WilsoD's ch. c.'Goliah, Brother to Wizard, by Sorcerer., 

Mr.T. Dunc<ymbe*s b. f. by Stamford, bought at Colonel Chil^eiys sale. 

Mr. Vertio«*6 th. c. Hbcus-Pocus, by Qiiiz, out of Cast red's iani. 

Mr. Storty*s b. e. Little Eugland, by Rehiehibranr.er, dam by Jarelin^ 

out of Toby's Sister. 
Mr. G. Cromf)ton'8 ch. c. Sir«et*WHiy-0 ! by WilHateon*8 Ditto, oUt 

of Rosamond. 
SirH. V. Tempest's bl. c. MoMnieulc, by ItaHa1)tetonian, Viam by Shuttle. 
Mr. Maitlafld's b. f. Cap-a-pce, by Sancbo^ dam by Pip.ator, oOt of 

' Queen Mab. 
Mr. Mason's gr. c. by Sir Harry Dimsdale^ dam by Dragon, bdt of 

Queen Mab. - ^ 

Mr. Wetherell's gr, c, by Sir Harty Dlmsdale; out dt i>ftnc^ster*d d&m. . 
Sir G. Army tage'i b. c. Tig^r, by Sir Paiilj Uatli By 'Bti^^^rd. 
Mr. Clifton's b. c. Doctor Syntax* Hy Warrior, biit of J6s6jAinii. . '. ' 
Mr. Clifton's br.c Laytoo^ by Warrior, dam by livirdh^r. 
Mr. Walton's br. f. Moll-in-the-Wad, by Hi&itiblfetobt^b, dani b'yfipatbr. 
Mr. Brandling's colt, Sqilire* by Sancho, dath ti Stjiniford. ' 
Mr. Dalrymple'8 br. c. Tomboy, by Willlatesbn'^ DittOi daifi by CbHiBtoder. 
Duke of Leeds's b. c. by Sancho, oiUdt Rovfet's d^dbi. * 

Duke of Leeds's ch. c. Brother to Octavian, by StripUns. 
Diike of L^edi'fe b. t. by Hatnbfetoiii^aii (dt Shuttle), ctamjiy Antaeus. 
Duke of L^eds*^ br. f. by iJick Artdr^ws, out of Gainriier feurton. 
Mr. Garforth*s gr. c. by Camilhis, Mih by Ruler. 
Sir M. M. Sykes's br. c. Prime-Mittl^ter, by Sahcho. 
Sir M, M. Sykes's b. c. Brothet to Thet-fea, by Han^blefonian. 
Sir M. M. Sykes's b. c. by Dick AridreWs, daih by Delpini. 
Mr. Bower's b. c. by Williamson's Ditto, otit of Yourig Magnolia. 
Mr. Ince's cb. c. by Sir Reginieild; t^dt of Statira, by Behingbroiigh. 
Sir B. Grabaih's gr. f. by Evand^r, dam by Expectation. 
Mr. Grascoigne's b. c. by Sancho, oiit 6f Grinialdi's dam. 
Mr. Gascoigbe's b. c-. by Sancbo, oiit of Wryneck. 
Mr. J. Wright's br. e. by Sancbo, ditm by Tr&m{)ator. 
Mr. Watt's ch. f. Altisidora, by Dick Andrev^s. 
Mr. Watt's b. e. by Dick Andrews; oat of Scalnti's dariy. 
Mr. Watt's b. c. by Dick Andrew^, dam by Trtraipalor. 
Mr. Best's o. c. by Young Whiskey, out of All -Dickey's dam. 
Mr. Blake's br* f. Vale-Royal, by Sorcerer. 

Mr, Glover's cIl g. b^ Haphazarid, dam by Bu^^ard, grthid. by Highflyer, 
Mri Glover's br. f. by Ea^te^ dam by Alexander. 
Gen. Grosveoor's -cb. c* by Sir Oliver, oui of Lavihia, b^ Pipa(tor. 
Produce Stakes of lOQgs. each, h. ft. colts, 8st. 7lb. fillicfs, 8st. 4lb.-— 

Fofdr ihil^s. 
LordFitswillianfi's b. f. Alaram, by R(^tyMfitt^Fcmei<r, out of Cecilia, 3lB. 
Lord Fitzwilliam's br. c. Algernon, by Oi-viUe, 0Qt<)f SaUy^ 31b. 
Lord Milton's b. e. by Vxyni^M, out of l&arf, 31^. 

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6S THE RACING CALENDAR; 

Sir M. M. Sykes*s b. f. Scaucataldi, by Saacho^ out of Teaxle Hbrft-^' 

pipe, 3lb. 
Mr. Hewett*s filly, (dead) by Sanclio, out of Zelia Teazle. 
Duke of Leeds's b. c. by Young Woodpecker (or Barnaby) out of Fraxfp 

nella. 
Duke of Hamilton's b. c. by Governor, out of Rosaletta, 3lb. 

Sir M. M. Sykes's cb. c. Don Raphael, by Dick Andrews, 8st. 3lb. 
«gst Mr. Brandling's b. c. by Dick Andrews, dam by SaUram, 8st. two 
miles, l(X)gs. h. ft. 

Sweepstakes of 20gs. each, for two-years*old colts, 8st. 2lb. fillies, 8st. 

Two-ycar-Okls' Course, 
liord Fitzwilliam's b. f. by Orville> out of Minstrel. 
Mr. Lambton's b.c. Adventurer, by Haphazard^ dam by Volaateer« 
Mr. Fletcher's b. c. by Remembrancer, out of Staveley's daei. 
Mr. Bosweli's b.c. by John Bull, out of Monica. 
Sir. Dawson's b. c. by Dick Andrews, dam by Worthy. 
Mr. T. Duucombe's h.'c. by Sultan, out of Jemima. 
Duiie of Hamilton's b. c. by Governor, dam by Spadille. 
Sir £. Smith's b. f. by Orville, out of TottcreUa. 
Sir W. Milner's b. f. by Beningbrough, dam by Sorcerer. 
Mr. Scarisbrick's bL c. by Staveley, dam by Moorcock. 
Mr. Scarisbrick's b. c. by Brainworm, dam by Pegasus, 
i^ir M. M. Sykes's gr. c. by Camillus^ out of Hornpipe Teazle. 
Mr. Watt's br. f. Sister to Master Richard. 

WEDNESDAY.— The Gascoigne Stakes of lOQgs. each, 30gs. ft*, 
for three-years-old colts, 8st. 5lb. fillies, 6st. 2lb.— -St. Leger Course. 
Lord Fitzwilliam's b. c. Fugitive, by Camillus, out of Cecilia. 
Lord Darlington's gr. c. by Orville, out of Nitre. 
Lord Scarbrougb's b. c. Kexby, Brother to Catton, by Golumpi^s. 
Sir E. Smith's ch. c. by Beningbrough, out of Quid's dam. 
Mr. Scarisbrick's b. c. by Sancho, dam by Oheron. 
Duke of Leeds's ch. c. Brother to Octavian. 

Duke of Leeds's b. c. by Hambletonian (or Shuttle) dam by Anteus. 
General Grosvenor's b. c.by Wbiskey, out of Buttercup. ' 

Sweepstakes of 200gs. each, h. ft. for tbree-years-old colts> 8st. 3lb. 

fillies, 8st. — ^Laat mile and half. 
Duke of Leeds's br. f. by Beningbrough » out of Palma. 
Sir B.Graham's b. f. Speedwell, by Orville^ outof Trumpetta. 
Sir M. M. Sykes's I)r. c. DiaboUs, by Willtamsoa's Ditto, out of Ma^-^ 

nolia. 
Sir H. V. Tempest's bl. c. Malioeux, by Hambletonian, dam by Shuttle. 
Mr. Brandling's b. c. by Dick Andrews, dam by Sir Peter, 
Mr. Wilson's cb. c. Goliah, Brother to Wizard, bySorcerer. 
Lord Darlington's b. c. by St. George, out of Walton's dam. ^ 

Lord Darlington's gr. c. by Orville, out of Nitre. ^ 

Lord Fitzwilliam's ch. c. Rodrigo, by Sancho, out of Fanny. 
Lord Miltpn's b. c. Camel-Leopard, by Camillus, out of Minstrel. 
General Grosvenor's ch, f. by Waxy, out of Blackberry. 
General Gjfgsvenor's b. c. by Whiskey, out of .Buttercup. 

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THE KACING CALENDAR. 59 

Svveepstakes of 50gs. each, 20gs. ft. for foiir-years-old colts, 8st. 7ll>«-— 

Maidens at the time of naming, to be allowed 4lb. — St.Leger Cou4*sc.' 
Duke of Leeds's ch. c. Tarquin, by Stripling. 
Lord Fitzwillianrs br. c. Algernon, by Orville. 
Duke of Hamilton's b. c. Udolpho, by Sorcerer. 
Lord Scarbrough's b. c. Catton, by Gokimpus. 
Sir E. Smith's cb. c. by Beningbrougb, out of Quid*s dam. 
Mr. Rob's b. c. Otterington, by Golumpus. 

THURSDAY.— Sweepstakes of 20gs. each, with 20gs. added by tfacr 
Corporation, for three-years -old fillies, 8st. 2lb. each.— The St. Leger 
Course. 

Lord Fitzwilliara's bay, Platownd, by Sir Paul, out of Evelina. 
Mr. T. Duocombe's bay, by Stamford, dam by Dragon. 
Mr. Maitland's bay, Cap-a-pee, by Sancho. 
Mr. Hutchinson's bay, by Remembrancer, dam by Sir Peter. 
Mr. Brandling's, bay, Jezebel, by Orville, out of Sylph. 
Duke of Hamilton's Henrietta, by AVarrior. 
Lord Scarbrough's brovrn, by Paynator, out of Circle. 
Mr. Green's bay, Sancha, by Sancho, dam by Sir Peter. 
Mr. Linton's chesnut, MissPlatdff,*by Remembrancer. 
Mr. Hewett's bay, by Stamford, out of Miss Buckle. 
Duke of Leeds's chesnut, by S^lim, d*am by Stride. 
Duke of Leeds's brown, by Dick Andrews, oiit of Gammer Gurton. 
Mr. Grimston's bay, by Sancho, data by Hamblietonian. 
Mr. Oliver's chesnut, by 'Sorcerer, out of Tooee. 
Mr. N. B. Hodgson's b. Catharine, by Patr6clus,out of Trophoxiius'sdanu 
Mr. Watt's chesnut, Altisidora, by Dick Andrews. 

Sweepstakes of ^KX)gs. each, h. ft. Sst. 5lb. each. — ^Two miles. 
Sir W. Gerard's Brother to Oriana, by Beningbrough. 
Mr. Treacher's b. c. by Sancho, dam by Highflyer. 
Lord Darlington's Brother to Pan, by St. George. 

Sweepstakes of 200gs. jeach, h. ft. for colts carrying Sst. 7lh. each. — ^SW 

Leger Course. 
Duke of Leeds's b. c. by Barnaby, out of Fraxinella. 
Sir W. Gerard's b. c. by Windle, out of Lady Sarah. 
Lord Darlington's b. c. Cwrw> by Dick Andrews. 



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OXFORD MEETING, 1813. 

IfOMINATIOI^S FOR THB GOLD CUP, 

I UK E of Marlborough names Camerton, 5 yrs old. 
Lord Francis S)>encer names Scorpion, aged. 
Mr. Fane names Mountebank, 5 yrs old. 
Mr. Burton names Mortimei*, late Tinker Barnes, 4 yrs old; 
Sir H. Peyton names Offa's Dyke^ 6_yrs aid. 
Mr. Annesley names Morgiana, 6 yrs old. 
Mr. Wright names Cross-Bow, 5 yrs old. 
Mr. Stratton names Cambric, 6 yrs old. 
Mr. Ashhurst names Variety, 5 yrs old. 
^r E. B. Sau<lys,-a mare, by Petworth. 5 yrs old. 

Mr, 



A) THE RAaNG CALENDAR. 

Mr. Corson names a br. c. by VenDin^ 4 yrs old, 
Mr. Jones names Poalton, aged. 
Mr. Pi got t names York, aged. 
Mr. Bruen names Hollyhock, aged. 

The Earl of Abingdon^ Mr. Lockhart, and Mr. Dashwood, are sub^ 
scribers^ but did not name. 



M 



NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING, 1813. 

ONDAY. ^Sw^eepstakes of lOOgs each, D. M. — ^Four to accq)t, 

or no engagement. A}^es. st, /^. 

Scorpion age<l 8 10 

Offa*8 Dyke 5 yis 8 10 

I*bantom 4 yrs 8 10 

Slender Billy 4 yrs 8 9 

Pan : aged 8 7 

Ospray , • . . 6 yrs 8 7 

Scrub , , 5 yrs 8 7 

Merry-go-round 4 yrs 8 7 

Truffle 4 yrs . 8 '^ 

Grimalkin 4 yrs 8 5 

Soothsayer ....4 yrs 8 5 

Sorcery » 4 yrs 8 5 

Crispin 5 yrs 8 4 

Demetrius 4 y;s 8 4 

Camerton ...» 4 yrs 8 4 

Middiethorp 6 yrs 8 3 

Invalid . , , , . . aged 8 3 

Dimity r \ . 5 yrs 8 3 

Ijegerdemain. ....-..; ! ... 4 yrs 8 3 

Gaber •. 4 yrs 8 3 

Whalebone 5 yrs S 3 

Cambrrc .%.--•» .,5 yrs - 03 

Mantidamun 5 yrs 8 3 

Eccleston ...,.• ^ W* ? ^ 

Hydaspes ^ 4 yrs S 3^ 

Langton aged 8 3 

Seymour 5 yrs 8 3 

Rival 4 yrs 8 3 

Hamlet 4 yrs 8 3 

Teasdale . . . : 5 yrs 8 2 

Shoestrings * 4 yrs 8 ^ 

Asmodeus , 5 yrs 8 1 

Anthonio i 5 yrs 8 I 

Orelia 4 yrs 8 1 

Barrosa 4 yrs 8 

Atalanta 4 yrs 7 ^^ 

Rapid , 4 yrs 7 '^ 

Bolter 4 yrs 7 '^ 

Coelebs , 4 yrs 7 * 



THB RACING CALENDAlt tfl 

EPSOM MEETING, iSlS. '^' 

nPHURSDA Y.*— -The fim year of a f «fi?wal of th^ P^vby Stakes of 
'*' 50gs. each, b. ft. for three^VMn^old colts, 9sl. 7)b. fiUies> 8ftt;.9lbw^ 
The last mile and a balf.T-Fmy^ooe subscril>ei:B«-*-T))e Ovrnef ^f t^ 
"second to receive lOOgs. out of the Stakes. 
Lord Derby's colt, by Sanebo, d»qi by Sir Peter, grandam \j^ 2MUUh*fW^ 

out of Trentbani*! d9n)« 
Lord Darlington's b. c. by St. George, oat of Pan's dam« 
Lord Darlington's gr. c. by Orville^out of Nitre. 
Lord Foley's colt, by Selim, out of Pi};ylina. 
Duke of Grafton's colt, by Pioneer, oipt of Lumbago. 
Sir J. Shelley's Brother to.Circe, by Soccerer. 
Sir J. Shelley's cb. c. by Selim, out of Wood Nympb. 
Mr. Wilson's cb. c. Golit^b, Brother to Wizard, by Soformr* 
Mr. Wilson's b. f. by Sancho, out of Totterella. 
Mr, Norton names a colt, by Haphazard, eet oi i^ugysla. 
Mr. Craven's br. c The Capt^^n, Brothei: to Tippifywiph^t 
Lord G. H. Caveadish's br. c.by Altfxander the Great, ool of t Sister 

to Bangtail. 
Lord Jersey's colt, by Haphazard, out of Spider'9 dani. 
General Grosvenor nanp^s a.b. «. by H«)^b^sl^|fl, danpL. by 9uzzanl, ont 

of Camilla. 
Mr. Uowortb aaaaaa a ch. c. by Hapbaxard^ dam by B«izfeavd^ mad of 

Camilla. 
Mff. Watfon namaa Mr. Peirw's b. o. by SaiKbo— Shoiidb. 
Mr. Ladhroke's br. c. by Selini, dam by Highflyer. 
Mr. Batso» names Mr. KeHermantt's ck o. Akohol, \k^ WbMey, out dt 

Jenny Spinner. 
Mr. Andrew's cb. c. Brian, by Selimi»^Aaoa^ by Coriander. 
Mr. Andrew's b. c. Tbe Cor))Ofa), by Grviile, out of Lydia. 
Sir C. Banbnry's bl.c. Brother to Tbmidarbolt, by Sorcerer. 
Mr. T. Scaith names a. roan cok, by Worthy, a«tol Betay, by^ Bening^ 

brough. 
Mr. T. Scaith names a br. colt, by Mr. Ridgp's Arabian, dam by Kill* 

Devil. 
Lord Oxford namtaMv. Whitmore's cb. c. by Whidiey, dam by Sky« 

scraper, 
Mr. C. Dcttuk's k t. Blne-Beanl, by Scnm, Mt of GiLdi))pr, by P«t» 

worth. 
Duke of RullaiMl's cb. e. Solyman, by Srlim-^erniy^Trnrnpet 
Duke •/ Rutland's cb. c. by Sorcerer^^Sahram— Herad^ 
Duke of Rutland's b. c. by Troe-Blue, oat of Rival, 
liord Egremoni's ch. o^ by Gohanna-^Sister toDiULbury. 
Lord Egtemont's b. c. by Gnhanna— i^ir Peter*— Nerissa; 
Lord Egremont's b. c. by Gobanna-i-Sir Peter, out of iBtbe. 
Mr. Blake's b. c. by Wellesley Gvey Arabian, ont of AUegrantt's dam. 
Mr. Trevanion's b. c. by Teddy the Grinder, out of FloreUa. 
Lord Rous's Quizzer, by Quiz, out of Grey Duchess, 
liord Rous names Sir C. Bunbiiry's br.c. by Orvilk-— Eleanor. 
Vol. XLI.-.N0. 245. X Lord 



tt THB RACING CALENDAR. 

Lord *Lowther*s ch. c, hj BeDiD|;brougb, out of ]^p8onn>L<i0S^ 

Lord Lowtber*8 dun. geld, by Remembrancer , dam by Waiter, grjiindsm 

by Lord Winchel»ea*8 Arabian. 
Mr. Elwes's br. c. by Sorcerer, out of Maiden. 
•Mr. Bott's b. c. by Totteridge, dam 1iy Sir Peter, out of Maid of Ely, 

by Tandem. 
Mr. Van«(ittart*8 cb. c, by Selim, out of Diek Andrews'? dam. 
Mr. Vansittart's cb. c. by Popinjay, dam by Woodpecker, out of Ej^» 

press*8 dam. 
Lord F. Bentinck's b. c. by Gamenut, out of Little Fickle. 
Mr. Lake's cb. c. by Giles^ outof 'Aimbkr*8 dam. 
Air. Lake*8 ch. c. by Giles, out of Romance. 
Mr. L^ke names Mr. Page's cb. c. hy Giles — ^Venture's dam. 
Lord Suifield's cb. c. by Sorcerer, out of a Sister to Petworth. 
Mr. Frost names Mr. Goodisson*s bl.c. Brotber to Queen of Sheba, by 

Alexander tbe Great. 
Lord Grosvenor's b. c. by M^enr, out of Olivia. 
Mr.Cloves's b. c. by Young Whiskey, dam by Precipitate, grandaro by 

Highflyer. 
Mr. Glover names Mr. Lockley's br. e, by a Brotber to Stamford, out 

of Princess Royal. 

Lord Kinnaird is a Sal^scriber, but dfkl not name. 

FRIDAy.-<*The first year of a resevml of tbe Oaks Stiikes of > 50g8. 
each, h. ft. for three-years-old fillies, 8st. 4]b.«— -The last mile and half. 
Forty-five Subscribers,— The Owner of the second to receive lOOgs. Mt 
of tbe Stakes. 

Lord Derby's by MUo, dam by Buzzard, out of Rubeos^s chHiK 
Lord Darlington's bay, by Giles, out of Money-Musk. 
Lord DaHinglon's bay, by SeKm, out of Lady Brough. 
Lord Foley's by Sancbo, out of a Sister to Chip|ienhaoir 
Duke of Grafton's by Waxy, out of Woodbine. ^"^ 

Duke of Grafton'a cbesnut^ by Waxy, out of Penelope. 
Duke of Grafton's brown. Jest, by Waxy, out of Scotia. 
8ir J. Shelley's by Sorcerer, dam by Precipitate. 
Mr. Wilson's bay» by Sancbo, out of Sophia. 
Mr. Norton names Mr. Don's cbesnut, by WiUiamson^s Ditto, o«it of 

Rosalind, by Volunteer. 
Mr. Craven hames^ord Oxford's black, by Stamford, (bought of Mr. 

T. Carr). 
Lord Kinoatrd names Mr. Milton's bay, by Paynator, dam by Wiodle- 

stone, (bought of Mrs. Richardson). 
Lord G. H. Cavendish's by Sorcerer, out of Pagoda. 
Lord Jersey names Mr. Wilson's bay, by Sancbo^-Totterell*. 
General Grosvenor's chesnnt, l)y Waxy, out of Ntmrod's dam. 
Mr. Uoworth's by Popiujay, out of the Corby Mare. 
Mr. Watson names a l)rt)wn, Orelia, by .Eagle, dam by Alexander, out 

of Winifred. 

Mr. LadUroke's cbesnut, by Selim, out of Slip|>er. 

jVIaior Wilson's cbesnut, bv Selim, out of Pea-Blossoiif. 

Mr. 



THE FACING CALENDAR. 63* 

Mr;. Aadrew*s black, Lufra, by W^Uon, dam by Tnimpator. . 

Mr. Andrew's cbetnut, by Sorcerer, dam by Skyscraper^ out of Venus;; 

by Eclip^ie. 
SirC. Buubury^s cbesnut, by Lepnardo, (or Young WbUkey) out of- 

RivaPs dam. 
Mr. T. Scaitb names a filly, by tbe Grange Arabian, out of LiUlieton*t 

dam. 
Xord Oxford's brown, by Warrior — ^Transit, out of Cracker. 
Duke of Rutland's bay, by Selim, out of Rosabella's dam. 
Duke of Rutland's black, \)y Sorcerer, dam by Sir Peter, out of D eceit* 
Xord Egremont'sliay, by Gohanna, out of Allegretta. , 

Lord Egreroonfs brown, by Gohanna — Sister to Chester. 
iKfrd Egremont*8 bay, by Gohanna, out of Amazon. 
Liord Rous*s bay^ The Roe, by Quiz, put of Jerboa. 
Capt. Vyse's bay, Vale-Royal, by Sorcerer — Orangeade. 
Mr. Bacon's brown, by Wartton, out of Little Peggy. 
JjQfd F. Beutiock's bay, by^elim, out of Vagrant's dam. <. 
Lord.F.fienrinck's bay, by Staveiey, outofTriiU. 
Mr. Lake names Lord F. G. Osborne's black, by Soreerer, out of 

Virgin. 
Mr. Lake's cbesnut. Lady of the Valley, by Walton, dam by Waxy, out 

ofMerrynmn'sdahn. 4 

Mr. Frost nam«« Mr. Goodissen's cbesnut, by Alexajftdertbe Gteatydaia 

by Buzzard, oot of a Sister to Champion. % 

Mr. 9oultb^'s cbesnut, by Sorcerer, out of Thalia. 
Mr. Nortbey names Mr. Goddard*s cbesnut, Scbeherazad, by Selim, out 

of Gipsy. 
Mr. Cox's cbesnut, by Witchcraft, out of Thrasher's dam. 
Mr. Neville's cbesnut, by Sorcerer, dam by Alexander. 
Lord Grosvenor's bay, by Meteor, out of Nike. 

Mr. Glover's bay, Kitcfaen-Girl, by Trafalgar, out of Maid-of- All- Work* 
Mr. Cloves's brown, by Young Whiskey, out of a Sister to Vulture's 

dam. 

Mr. Premlergast's Skirmish, by Sorcerer, agst Mr. Baring's br. c. b j 
Totteridge, 8st. 7lb. each, the last mile; SOOgs. 



MALTON CRAVEN MEETING, 1813. 

TniTESDAY, April 6. ^The Craven Stakes of lOgs. each, for all 

ages.-^-One mile and a quarter. 
Mr. Gascoigae's cb. c. by Sancho, out of Golden-Locks, 2 yrs old, 6st. 
^t. T.Pearson's b. f. Miss Platoff, by Sancho, (or Evander) 2 yrs old, 

(Jst. 
Mr. Ince's br. c. by Sir Reginald, dam by Warter, 3 yrs old, 6st/ 
Mr. J^alrjrmple's br. c. Tomboy, by Williamson's Ditto, dam by Coriaa'^ 

dkr, 2 yn old, 6sc. 
Lord Fitzwilliam's br. c. Algernon, 3 yrs old, 8st. 
JSSr M. M. Sykat:t b. c Sppenton^ 4 yrs old> Set 9lb. 



«4 TBS BACING CALEKDAK 

Sir M. M. ^ket*» b. c. iy flamUklKiiiiiin, out of Sttivtslio's <him, M. 
7M>. against Mr. B^irer^s &• c. by Dick Afidr^ws^ 89t. t^o Allies^ 100gi« 
h, ft. 

The^rrxluce Stakes of 50gs. each, h. ft. for three-years-old colti^ 8st 

fillies, 78t. nib.. — ^TwQ miles. 
Ziorrl MHtbn^ b. c. by Sir Paul, out of a Sister to Orville. 
Mr. Leatham*s b. c, by Sancho, dam by Beni^igbrougb. 
Sir M. M. Sykcs's br. c. by Sancho, our of Horopipe Teazle. 
Sjr M..M. Sykes*s br. c. by Saficbo, dam by Sir Fecen 
Mr. Kirby's gr. f. fjy fivander, out of Yarico; 
Mr. Horsley*8 br. f.by Paynator, out of Circk* 

Sweei>stakes of 50gs. each, b.ft. colts, 8st«,3lb. ^liea, Sst^— Insist imli» 
Mr. Watt*s b. c. by Dick Andrews, out of Sqamji's dam. 
Mr. CrriDiston*s filjy, by Sancbu,, dam by llambWtauiao. . . , 
Sir M. M. SykesVb. c. Diabolis, hy Wi|liam^»*/i Ditto. 

Mr. Bower*s ck.o. Crudator, by $ir iUgioeld, diim by SiM^eton, 
88t. 3lb. agst Mr. HiU> ch. f.by Sir JU^ittald, dun by Gmaod^, 8ft. 
ifii^ p»ie and a iidf^ lOQgft. b. £e. 

Svneeyistakes of 2(^. each, for coits rising three years ol d^ Bit, 3lb. 

fillies, dst.-^-One mikeai^'ajbal#. 
Mr. Marris'a cb. f. Sister to Sir Sam|>son, by Stamfbrd. 
1^W«t^^r d. kf IMek Ai>dr«#B, out of ScatnpYdaiti. 
Mr« Dairymple*s br. c. Tonfboy, by WHHamisoii's Ditto. 

Col. Torre's cb. c. Don Raphael, by Dick Amlrews, out of Lady 
Aacli^l, agst Mr. Bower*8 b. c. by Dick Andrews, dam by Delpi^i^ 69c. 
eacb^ two miies, lOOgs. h. ft. 



BBVERl-Ey MSliTINO, UI8. 

C'lV^EftlfeTAiKES of 20gs. eatb, for tbree-years-old colts, $sU ?!l»i 

*^ fillies^ Sst, — One mile and a half. 

^r M. RE. S;*k«8'» br. e. by Santhd, dtit of Sir MarrincPs Sfster. 

Sir B. Graham's b. f Speed^el^, by Orvffle*-^nnnpetta. 

Mr. Vickers's b. f. Latona, by Harrison's Trumpator. 

Mr. Watt's b. c. by Dick Andrews, out of Scamp's dam. 

Sweepstaiites c^ TQg^'MCh; for s^l 9ee^<-^?0CU* lliiles. 
Mr. Burton^s b. c. by Paynator, dam by Spadille, 3yrsold,4$t» I2lb« . , 
i*r. U|»pl^by's b. f. Harriet, 4 yrs old, Tst. 61b. 
Mr. Porbes*s b. c. Hamlet, 4 yrs old, 7*^ 91b* 
Mrrftobittsol*!9-b. c. iSccWr, 4 yrs old, fst.glb. 

**Mr. Hopkinsou's b. €.' by Runaway, dam by fine-Apple, agst Ml'. It 
Taunton's U c. by Rimaway,.dam by Carabineer, 85t. c^acb^ two wikfi^ 

\*^ The Gold Cup and'otfaftr Stakei did Ddt fith 






WEWCAOTIK ilEteltNO, 1813. 

Itf ONDAY. Tb^ Produce Stakes of 3€%8. each, b. ft. for tbre^ 

'^'^'■- year*.old ooks, «st 4Hi, fiUies^ Sst— Twa awks.— Tiw»<J got b/ 

untried Stallions, &c. allowed 3lb. 

Duke of Hamilton's b« c. hy Hambletdnian^ dttm hy J}tdiBm,.piaAdtiahf 

Dux. 
Lord Montgomerie^s th» e. by J(>bA BulWSe6tia'9 dAm. 
Lrord Mcmtgoi»erie*s b. f. by Caleb Quot'epa— Trifle. 
Sit W. Gerard's b. c. by Beniijgbrough, out of Mary-Aan, 
Mr. Brandling's h.'£. (dead) by Alonzo-r-Woddpeckei'. 
Mr. Bi-andllrig^s ch. f. by 5ancho» dam by Beningbrotigh. 
Mr. Beck witb's k f. 6mo|^, by Windle^ dam by Del|»Qi« . . 
Mr. Baillie's b. tloy Beningbroagb, dam by Sir Peter^ 
Mr. Ridley's b. c. by Sanclw, dam by TouogMarsk. 
Mr. Bigge's b. f. by Sir Harry Dimsoale — Bourdeaux* 
Mr. RiddelFs b. f. by Williamson's Ditto, dJam by Star. 
Mr. Xrotter> b. c. by Sancbo, dam by Obetron— Stride. 
Mr. James's ch. c. by Remembrancer — ^Miss Eliza Overton. 
Mr. Mason's gr. f. by. Sir Harry Dlmadale, out of a Sister t» Vk^smM 

Jobn. 
Xir. Arrovrsmitb's b. f. by Sir Harry Dimsdale — ^Pipator. 
Mi-rC. FothergilN br. c. Don Gnzmao, by SflnchO/-outo£Yeuilg iLa- 

viaia> Sister to Sir Cfaarlcgs.. 
Mr. Dmsdale's cb. c. by Ifoung Pipator, OQt of n ^ey AfM^n sbaii^ 

called 2elima. 
Mr. O. Crompton's cb. c. Sweet-Willy-b ! by Wima]kiste'*8 Dttto^ mC 

of Rosamond. 
A^P. WetbereU's gr. o. DarlH^tQli, by jfticHarryDansdale^ Oi^ of ftoiH 

carter's dam. 
Lord Elgin did not Qa]Oie« 

Mr. Riddeirs b. c. by Sir Cbaries, iMot by E^esrp^, agst Mr. Rldfevlr 
b. c. by Sancho, dam by Young Marsk, Sst. eacl), two miles, lOOgs. h. rU 

Sweepstakes of 25gs. egch, for four-years-old colts^ 8st. 4lb. £Ui6s^ 8siL 

Four miles. 
Lord Belbaven's b. c. by Master Robert — Higbflyer. 
Mr. Brandling's b. c. Geranium, by Hyaclnthutf. 
Mr. Burton's br. c. Don Julian, by Stamford. 
Mr. Barrett's ch. c. by Refmembrancer, out of Heroine. 
Mr. Don's ch. f. Agnes Sorrel, by Stamford. 
Mr. Rob's b. c. Otteripgton, by GoliimpuS. 

The Tyro Stakes of 20gs. each, for two-years-okl colts, 8st. 41b. fillies, 

8st.— Three quarters of a mile. 
Mr. Brandling's b. c. Old Robio^ l>y Diek Andrews, dam by Sir Peter. 
Mr. Lambton's b. c. AdvenUirer, by Haphazard. 
Mr. Flettiber's h^ c. by BemflniAMranctr---^a^ley's dam. 
Mr. Don's b, c. by Young Skyscraper, out of Rosalind. 
Mr. Dawson's b. c; Brother to Tom Tit, by Dtck Andrews. 
Mr. Searbbrick's bL c. by Sttwdity, dam by Meore^ok. 

TUESDAY, 



C6 THE RACING CALENDAR.. 

TUESDAY. — Sweepstakes of lOgs. each, for tbree-yearsH)ld filUei^ 
8st. — One mile. 

Mr. Brafidliug*s bay, Jezebel, by Orville, out of fiylpb. 
Mr. B«ckwitb*s ebesnat. Miss riatoff^ by Reineaibraacet> dam by OveN 

ton. 
Mr. liutcbinsQD's bay, by Remembrancer — Sir Peter. 
Mr. Boaznian*s bay, by Hambletonian, out of Cotillion. 
Mr. Elliston*s bay, by Orville, otit of Patience, by Buzzard. 
Mr. Trotter's grey, Sroolensko^ by Remembrancer, dam by Sir Peter. 

Sweepstakes of 30gs. eacb, lOgs. ft. for tbree-years-old colts, 8st 4lli. 

fillies, Sst.^— Two miles.-— Tbe winner of tbe Produce to carry 3lb. 

extra. 
Lord Qaeensbenys br. c. by Sancbo, out of a Sister to Beningbrough. 
Lord Stratbmore*8 b. c. by Remembrancer — Beatrice. 
JAr. Ridley's b. c. by 8ancho> dam by Young Marsk. 
Mr. Storey's br. c. Little England, (dead) by Remembrancer. 
Mr. Riddeirs b. c. Don Carlos, by Sir Charles — Escape. 
Mr. Maitland's b. f. Cap-a-pee, by Sancbo, dam by Pipator^ out of 

Queen Mab. 
Mr^ Irvine*^ h. c: by Remembrancer, out of^Tfaeopbania. 
Mr. Walton's br. f. Moli^in-tbe- Wad, by Uambletonian^ dam by Pipator. 

. THURSDAY.— Tbe Gold Cup by dabscribers of )Ogs.eacb; three- 
year-olds, dst. 41b. four, 7^t. 1 lib. five, 8st. 7'^> ^^^ ^^^> d^* lOlb.— • 
filiies allows 3lb.^^F6ur Iviles. 

Sir C. Monck's b. c. Squire, by Sancbo — Stamford, 3 yrs old. 
Sir C. Loraiue*s b. f. Cap*a-pee^ by Sancbo, 3 yrsold^ 
Mr. Ridley's b. c. by Sancbo— >Young Marsk, 3 yrs oW. 
Mr. Treacher's hr. c. by Sancbo, out of Beamghroiigh's Sister, 3 yrs oM 
Mr. Hodgson's br. f. by Hambletouiao, dam by Pipator^ 3 yrs old. 
Lord Belhaven's b. c. by Master Robert, 4 yrs old. 
Lord ScarbrougU's b. c. Pomegranat?, 4 yrs oU. 
Mr. Brandling's b. c. Gerauinni, 4 yrs old. 
Mr. Biggs's b. g. Beefeater, 4 yrs old. 
Mr. Baker's b. c. Otteringtou, 4 yrs old. 
Mr. Button's br. c. Don Julian, 4 yrs old. 
Mr. Fletcher's b. c. Sligo, 4 yrs old. 
Mr. Dob's cb. f. Agnes Sorrel, 4 yrs old. 
Sir M. M. Sykes's br. c. Sir Malagagi, 5 yrs old. 
Mr. RiddelVs b. b. X, Y, Z, 5 yrs old. 
Mr. Lambton's b. g. Woodman, 6 yrs old. 
Mr. Barrett's br. c. Little England, (dead) 3 yrs old. 



PRESTON MEETmo, 1813. 

» . * . 

^UESDAY.— The Produce Stakes of 50g8. eaeb/ colts, 8st. 4lb. fillies^ 

8st. — ^T wo miles. • . 

Lord Derby's bl. c. by Milo, out of a Sister to Orkmdo, i>y Whiskey. 

Mr. CliftOQ's ch. c. by Dick, Andrewsy dttt by Boscard. 

Sir 



THE RACING CALENDAR. CJT 

Sir W. GerartVs ch. c. by Windle^ (or Yoang Chariot) dam by Buzzard, 

out of Walton's dam. 
Mr. £. L. Hodgson's b. f. by Grazier-^Miss MiistOD. 
puke of Hamiltou^s b. f. by Sir Paul^ out of I^outsa. 

Sweepstakes of 20gs. eacb, for tbree-years-old colts^ 8st. 4lb. fiUies^ Bst» 

Twice round the Coarse. 
JiOrd Derby's bn c. by Sanclio^ dam by Sir Peter. 
Mr. Yates's b. c. Nector, by St. George, out of Hebe. 
Mr. Price's cb. c. Barataria, by Saiicbo. 
Mr. Clifton's ch. c. by Dick Andrews, dam by Buzzard* 
Mr. Brade's b. c. Doctor Sangracio, by Warrior— Hasty, 



WEDNESDAY.— The Gold Cup, value lOOgs. added to a Subscriji. 
tion of lOgs. each, for three-year-olds, 68t. 6lb. four, 8st. and five, ShU 
lOlb. — Mares allowed 2lb.— Four miles, 
liord Derby's b. c. by Sancho— Sir Peter, 3 yrs old. 
Lord Stanley*s bl. c. by Milo— Whiskey, 3 yrs old. 
Sir T. Stanley's b. c. by Cheshire- Cheese, 3 yrs old/ 
Mr. Horrock's b. c. Doctor Sangrado, by Warrior, 3 yrs old. 
Colonel Hargrejive's br. c. Layton, by Warrior, 3 yrs old. 
Mr. Blundell's ch.c. by Warrior — Dungannon,3 yrs old. 
Mr. Simpson's b. c. by Williamson's Ditto, dam by Beningbrongh^ 3 yri» 
Duke of Hamilton's b. cPloughboy, 4 yrs old. 
Duke of Hamilton's br. c. Master Richard, 4 yrs old. 
Lord Scarbrough's b. c. Catton, 4 yrs old. 
Mr. Hewett's br. f. Manueila, 4 yrs old. 
Mr. Hewett's h. f. Cwm, 4 yrs old. 
Mr. Clifton^s b. f. Boadicea, )4 yrs old. 
Mr. Hornby's br. c. Tinker Barnes, 4 yrs old. 
Mr. price'« b. c. Amlio, 4 yrs eld. 

Mr. C. Staodisb's br. c. Saucy- Whelp, by Stamford, 4 yrs old. 
Mr. Scarisbrick's gr. c. Viscount, 4 yrs old. 
Sir Wm. Wynne's b. m. Cambrian- Lass, 5 yrs old. 
Mr. Whi taker's br. h. Worcester, 5 yrs old. 
fAr. Glegg's b. h. Uncle Dick, 5 yrs old. 



aes 



PONTEFRACT MEETING, 1813. 

^HE Produce Stakes of 50gs. each, h. ft. coltt, 8st. 7lb. filUei, Sst. 4lb. 

Four miles. 
Lord Fitzwilliam's bl. c. by Paynator, out of Mary, allowed 3lb. 
Mr. E. L. Hod^on's br. f. by Shuttle, out of Miss Mustoiw 
Lord Milton's b.f. Alarum, by Remembrancer, 3lb. 

The Produce Stakes of 50g8. each, h. ft. for threc-years-old colts, Sst. 

3lb. fillies, Sst. — Two miles.— Those got by untried StaUions, &c. 

allowed 3lb. 
Lord Fitzwilliam's b. c. by Sir Paul— Orville's Sister, 3lb. 
Lord Milton's b. c. by CamiJlus, out of Minstrel, 3lb« 

Lord 



4» TUS RACING CALia»II»lR 

Lord FMRiigto»*& b. f. hj ttiattk, ost of Galatea. 

Mr. E. L. Hodgson's ch. f. by Grazier — Miss'Mfaston, 3!b. 

Duke of Hamilton*^ b. f by SirPauf, out of Louha^ alb. 

Mr. C. Foibf^rgiirs b. c. Don Guzman, by Saocbo^ out of Yonng Lavfo^ 

^Uter to3ir CbarleB, 3ib. 
Duke of Leeds's cb. c. (dfioii) by Dick ikmbewfri— Duck. 

Sweepstakes of 20gs. eacb, (tlirec Subscribers) witb 20g». added for A 
ages. — ¥owr milea. — Tbe hors^, 8cc. to he named oa tbe day of 
entrance. 

Sweepstakes of 3Qga. eacb, lOgs. ft. for tbree-years-old colli, QfiJL 2l^ 

ftUies, 8st. — Last mire and thr«c ijuarters. 
9tr M. M^.-Syke^a b; c. by 8aaeb«>-«-Sir Manriuer» Sister. 
»iF W. Gefii«d'$.kw p. Bvoiher totOmiM. 
Lord Ficz William's b. c. Fugitive, hj Cvmilitis 
Mr. W. Uppleby's b..c. Patrick, by $afieb«^ denniby BeiiiugbffiMigk 
Mf. Harrison's Miss Tosiiots^ by Dick Andrews. 
Mr. Riddell's b. c. Do» Carlos, by 8ir CbarW^-«-£9caf)«, 
Lord Scarbronifb-'a b.c. Kexby, Bc-otber taO»ttoii. 
Mr. Pearson's b. f. Miss Flatoff^ by S^nobo (or ftWandev), 
Mr. Dalryniple't br. c. Tomboy, by WilKaniB»n*s Ditto, 
ICr. Yatea a b» c. by St. George, out of Hebe. 
Mr. Gascoigne's cb. c. by SaneUo, oot of GoMen-Lockt. 
Mr. N. B. Hodgson's h, c. by Stamferci^-Woodutao-'s daiML 
Mr. Watt's b. c. by Dick Andrews, out of 8ciiiDp*a dam. 

WEDNESDAY.— Tbe Gold Cup, by ten Subscribers of Ipgsv eaol, 
witb 20gs. added, for all ages. — Four j;Kiilesi. — ^Tbe hoi*$e», &c. V^ h^ 
named on the ds^y of entrance. 

' THURSDAY.— Sweepstakes of 2eg8. each, witb 20gs. added, fcr 
tbree-year8-€>ld fillies, Ss*. — A winner of a Stakes or Plate in 1 WS, to 
carry 3lb. and of two, 4lb. extra.^si-The ksf mile and tbree quarters. 
Lord Fit z William's bay, Platowna, by Sir Paul. ' ' 

Mr. Oliver's chesnut, by Sorcerer, out of Tooee. 

Sweepstakes of 20gs. eacb, for'two-year^-old coltsi, Sst. 3lb. fifHes, Sst 

Tbe last mile. 
Lord Milton's b. f. by Orville, out of Minstrel. 
Mr. Larabton's Ix <x Adfei«tpr§r, byHapba»ard. 
Sir M. M. Sykes's gr. c. by Camillus — Hornpipe Teazle. 
•Ml*. Scambrick^s b. e. })y BraiiUvtorm, dam by Ihtgasus^ 
Mr. Watt's b. f. Sister to Master Richard. 

* » • ■ • 

. rtrrrrn 

DONCASTFJl MEETING, 1815. 

• • • 

T AS(F iHY/-~Mr. Baker's cbesntit colt, by Castrel, oatei Lawca- 

shire Witch, Sst. 5lb. against Sir G. Armytage's bay fiWy, Ma*y,b7 

Haraldetouian, oof of Rox^na, 8st. 2lb. the St. Legei- Cpwse, 2000^ 

h. ft« . . . .. > . i 






THE RACING CALENDAR. 09 

DURHAM MEETING, 1813, 

T«UESDAY, April 27.^ (Jiges a$ in Mai/J. ^Tbe Trial Stake* c^ 

^ 20gs. each, for two-years-old colts, 8st. 3lb. fillies, Sst.—Ooce round 

the Course. 

Mr. Lambton's b. c. Adventurer, by Haphazard, dam by Voloote^r. 

Mr. Riddell's b. f. by Brainworm, dam by Star, 

Mr. DavirsoQ's b. f. by Orville, dam by Delpini. 

Sir H. V. Tempest* s b. c. by Hambletonian, dam by Patriot. 

Mr. Scarisbrick*s bl. c. by Staveley, dam by Moorcock. 

Mr. Trotter^s b. c. Ascarides, by Brainworm— Charlottes dam. 

Mr. Boazman's b. c. Aycliffe, by Orville— Hambletonian. 

WEDNESDAY.— Sweepstakes of lOgs. each, with 20g8. added, fi^ 
three-years-old colu, 8st. 5lb. fillies, 8?t. 2lb. Two miles. 
Mr.Surtees'sb.f. by Sancbo, dam by Pipaton 
Mr. Riddell's b. c. Don Carlos, by Sir Charles— Escape. 
Mr. N. B. Hodgson's b. c. by Stamford— Woodman's dam. 
General Seddon's b. c. Tomaso, by Remembrancer— Mr. Teazle. 
Mr. Hessdtine's colt, by Sancho. 

THURSDAY.— The Gold Cup, value lOOgs. by Subscribers of lOgS. 
each, with 20gs. added.— Three miles. 
Sir W. Maxwell's gr. c. Viscount, 4 yrs old, Sst. 
Mr. Surtees's b. c. Sligo, 4 yrs old, 8st. 
Mr. Ridley's b. g. Beefeater, 4 yrs old, 78t. 1 lib. 
Mr. Lambton's br. f. Limblifter, 4 yrs old, 78t. 1 lib. 
Sir W. Gerard's b. c. Don Carlioso, 4 yrs old, Sst. 
Dake of Leeds's b. m. Rebecca, 5 yrs old. Sat. 7^^- 
Mr. RiddeU's b. h. X, Y, Z, 5 yrs old, 8st. lOlb. 
Mr. Uppleby's b. m. Harriet, 5 yrs old, 8st. 7")' 
Mr. N. B. Hodgson's b. g. Woodman, 6 yrs old, 8st. 1 lll>. 
Sir H. V. Tempest's b.h. The Engraver, 6 yrs old, 9«t. 



STOCKTON MEETING, 1813. 

(The Week after Durham.) 

P'lRST DAY.— Sweepstakes of 20g8. each, for two-ytru's-old cqUu 

^ 8st. 3lb. ffllies, 8st.— Once round tbe Course. 

Sir H. V.Tem|)est's b. c. by Hambletonian, dam by Patimt. 

Mr. Davrson's b. f. by Orville, dam by Delpini. , ^. ^ ^ .. 

Mr. Porritt'sb. c. Claxton, by Remembrancer, dum by Sir Peter, out 01 

Windleston's Sister. 
The Gold Cup, value lOOgs. by Subscription of lOgs. each, with 20gs. 
added, the surplus to be paid to the winner in specie, for all ages.— 

, Three miles. 
Mr. Hickss ch. c. Speculation, 3 yrs old, 68f . 4lb. 
Mr. Wright's b. f. Limblifter, 4 yrs old, 78t. 1 lib. 
Vol. XLI^-^No. 246. L Sijr 



00 THE RACING CALENPAR 

Sir W. Maxwells gr. c. Vijcount, 4 yps old, 8st 
Mr. Jaques*s b. c. by Stamfurd, 4 yi-s old^ 8st. 
liord Srratbmore's ch. g. by Remembrancer^ 4 yrs old, fiM^^,'- 
IDitlM or'Leeds*8 b. m. Rebecca, 5 yrs old, Sst. 7ib. 
Mr. Robinson's b. h. Hector, 5 yrs old, 8st. 10!b. . . 

Sir H- V. Tempest'v b. b. The Engraver, 6 yrs old, g»t, 
"Mr. N. B. Hodgson's b. g. Woodman,, dyrsold, 8st. 1 ilk 

Mr. Cook is a Subscriber,- but did uot naioe.. 

Sweepstakes of 7g8. each, for horses, 8tc. not tborongh bted j fo«ir-»yeaf^ 
olds, lOst. 4lb. tive-year-olds, ]lsr. 4lb. six and aged, ll»t. I2lfe. — ^A 
winner at Catterick or Durham, 3lb. extra. — ^Two-mile beats. 

Mr. Surtees's b. h. Kutusoff, by St. George. 

Mf. Wright's gr. k. i)y Oberon. 

Mr. W. Jackson's ch. m. by Anthony, 5 yrs old. 

Mr. W. Jackson's ch. m. by Antbony, aged. 

Mr. Stevenson's b. c. by O^M^ron, 4 yrs old. 

Mr. Rowntree'« gr. f. by Sir Harry Dlmsdale, 4 yrs old. 

Mr. CbiltoD*8 b. c. by Bagsman, 4 yrs old. 

Mr. Bamlett's ch. m. Butterfly, ))y Warter, 6 yrs old.. . 

Mr. R. Wilson's b. g. Sweeper, by Oberoo, aged. 

i/br. Dawson*ft b. g. Blasber, by Horatio, aged» ^ 

Mr. Dawson's b. ui. Bright- Venus, by Harry Rowe, agffd. 

THIRD DAY. — Sweepstakes of lOgs. each, with 50gs. a<tded, foj 
all ages. — Three-mile heat& 
Xiord Strathmore's ch. c. by Remembrancer, out of Heroine, 4 yrs old, 

8sl. 2lb. 
Mr. Jaques's b. c. by Stamford, out of Merryfield's dam, 4 yrs old| 

8st. 21b. ' 
Mr. Wright's b. f. Limblifter, 4 yrs old, 7st. 13lb. 
Mr. Uppleby*8 b. m. Harriet, 5 yrs old, 8st. Gib. 
Sir H. V. Tempest's b. b. The Engraver, 6 yrs olj, pst. 



CHESTER MEETING, 1813. 

ll/fONDAY, May 3. The Pro<luce Stakes uf 25gs. each, for three* 

• years-old colts, 8st.4lb. fillies, 8st.^— Two miles. 
Duke of Hamilton's br. c. by Governor, out of Miss Haworth. 
Duke of Hamiltou's b, f. Henrietta, by Warrior, out of Crazy'adam. 
liord Oxford's ch. f. by Warrior, out of a Sister to Kilton. 

The Palatine Stakes of 50^s. each, h. ft. for tbr«e-y ears-old colts, 8st 
7lb. fillies, 8st. 2lb. — To start at the Castle-Pble and go once xonnd 
the Course. — Untried Stallions or Mares, tu be allowed alb. if both, 
5lb. 

Sir W. W. Wynne's b. c. by Beoin^sen, out of Bonduca, allowed 3lb. 

Lord Grey'b b. c. I)y Sir Oliver, out of Petrouilla, 3lb. 

Lord Grey's b. f. by Sancho,ont of Elfrida, 3lb. 

Mr. Benson's br. f. by Warrior, out of Cecilia> by Beningbrough, 5lb. 

Mr. Price's oil. c. Baratana, by Sanchp, dam by Beqingbrougb, 3lb. 

J^ttkeof Haotilton't b. f. by Sir Paul, out of Louisa, dlb.. 

^ ' * Lord 



l^ord Xj?ro8tetJQr*s ch. c. by Meteor, out of Mop^^ 3lb. 

Mr. Clifton's b. c. by Warrior, out of Josephina, 5lb. 

Mr. Clifton's cb. c. by Warrior, out of Volumnia, by Duncannon, 5lb. -[ 

Mr. Glover's br. f. by Sir Ulic, dam by Star, 5lb. 

Sir WiB. WyDile's gr. c, Harry Plantagenet, by St. George, out of trenfi^ 

by Z^chariab, 3lb. ' '^^ 

Mr. Biiliufecons.b. p. Belmont, by St. George, out of Lucy, by Cpri* 

srndeh * 
Sh- Ti Stahle/s b. f.by Phlebotomist, dam by Mr. Ri(!:bardson'8 Matsk^ 

3lb. 

Sweepstakes of 2§gs. eltch, for ttvo-years-old colts, dst. 31b. fitfies, 

88t.— Half a mile. 
Mr. ftot^insori's b, f. by Alexander, out of Pussy Cat. ^ 

Mr. Shorn ftgton's bl.- c. by Mr. Teazle, out of Wellington's dam. 
Sir Wni. Wynne's b. f. by St: George, out of Belmont's dam. * 

WEDNESDAY.— The Dee Stakes of 50gs. each, b. ft. for three- 
years«uld c«ltS| 6st. 71b. &ili«s> 8sc. 2lb. — Once round tht* Cootse and a 
dlstaace. . . * 

liord Oxford's bl. f. by Stamford, bought of Mr. T. Carr. 
Mr. T.Mostyn's b. c. by Trafalgar, dam by Woodpecker. ' . . 

"Sir W. W. Wynne's cb. c. by Titynis, out of his hipped filly, by Meteor, 
Sir Wm. Wynne's b, c. Belmont, by St. Gporge. 
General Grosveuor's ch, c. by Sir Oliver, out of Lavinia, by Pipator. 
Mr. Clifton's b. c. by Williamson's Ditto, dam by Beningbrougb. 
Sir H. Mainwaring's b. c. by Diamond, out of Lampedosa, by Precipe* 

tate. > 
Mr. Whitmore's cb. c. Tilbury, by Whiskey. 
Mr. Price's ch. c.Barataria, by Sancho. 
Mr. E. L. Lloyd's b. c. by Sir Oliver, out of Georgina, by George. 

FRIDAY.— Sir T. Stanley's b. c. by Cheshire-Cheese, out oFHand,. 
maid, agst Mr. Price's ch. c. Barataria, by Sancbo, Sst. each, two iail«#^ 
lOOgs. h. ft.^ 

Sir Wra. Wynne's b. c. Belmont, by St. George, Sst. 3lb. against Mr* 
Bayk/s br. f. by Alexander, dam by Sir Pe^er, Sst tivo Allies, lOOgt.. 



ASCOT-HEATH MEETING, 1813. 

"^yrONDAY. Sweepstakes of lOOgs. each, h. ft for three-ye^rs«, 

^^^ old colts, Sst. 71b. fillies, Sst. 3lb.— The New Mile.— The Winner of 

the Derby br Oaks to carry '5 lb. extra. 

His R. H, :tbe Duke of York's ch. c. by Giles, out of Tumbler's dam, . 

Duke of Rutland's ch. c. by Sorcerer, dam by Saltram. 

Liord Jersey's colt, by Haphazard, ©ut of Spider's dam. ^ 

Lord Foley's colt, by StUin, out of Pipylina. 

Mr. Craven's Brother to Tippity wicbet, oy Waxy. - 

Jjord Lowtl»er'» ch. c. by Beningbrougb, out of £psom»Las8. 

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t» f HB RACING CALENDAR. 

L^rd F. Bentinck*s b. c. Hy Garoenut, 6ut of Little Pickle« 

Sir C. Buiilmry*s b. c. Muley, by Orvilk, out of £leanor. 

^tr J. Shelley's ch. c. Caliban, by Soreei^r, out of Houghton-Lasl. 

Mr. Milton's br. h. Florival, by Shuttle, aged, 7st. 7lb. against ltr« 
8lake*s b. m. Sprightly, by Whiskey, 5 yrs old, 7st. four miles, 200gs. 

* tDESDAV.— The Albany Stakes of 50gs. each, h. ft. for tlirec- 
jfsars-oM colts, 8$t. 7lb. fillies, 8st. 3lb.— The Old Mile.— The winner ^ 
tiie Derby or Oaks Stakes to carry 5ib. extra. 

His R. H, tl^e Duke of York's colt, by Giles, out of Romance. 

Lord Egremout's Brother to Mountebank, by Gobanna. 

Mr. Kellermann*s 1). c. Alcohol, Brother to Juniper, by Whiskey* 

Mr. Stones*« b. f. Miss Whipthong, by Giles, dam by Buzzard. 

Mr. Dundas's b. c. by Caesario, out of Adeia. 

Mr. Blake's b. f. Vale-Royal, by Sorcertr. 

WEDNESDAY.— The Windsor Forest Stakes of 50gs. cacb,.b. ft* 
for three-years-old fillies, 8st. 4lb. — ^The Old Mile. — ^The winner of tht 
Oaks Stakes to carry 5lb. extra. 

His R, H. the Duke of York's chesnut. Lady of the Valley^ by Wallon, 

dam by Waxy, out of Merryman's dam. 
Lord Egremonfs brown, by Gohanna, out of Interloper's dam. 
Mr. Ladbroke's cbesuut, Harriet, by Selim, out of Slip|ier. 
Mr* Blake's bay, Vale- Royal, by Sorcerer. 
Mr. Stones's buy. Miss Whipthong, by Giles. 

FRIDAY.— The Billingbear Stakes of lOOgs. each h. ft. for tbre^ 
years-old colts, 8st, olb. lillies, 8st. — ^The last mile and a half.— Th«. 
winner of the Newmarket 2000gs, Stakes, Derby, or Oaks to carry 7lb. 
cktra. 

Mr. Lake's ch. f. Lady of the Lake, by Walton. 

Sir J. Shelley's ch. c. Caliban, Brother to Comus, by Sorcerer. 

Lrbrd Rous's b. f. The Roe, by Quiz, out of Jerboa. 

Geoeral GrosveDor's ch. f; Vutpecula, by Waxy, out of Nimrod's dam. 

Mr. Vansittart's ch. c. Sandy-Marsk, by Selim, out of Dick Andrews's 

dam. 
Mr. Blake's b. c. Bussorah, by the Wellesley Grey Arabian, out of Al- 

legranti's dam. 
Duke of Rutland's b. c. Rostopchiu, by True-Blue, out of RivaL 
Duke of Grafton's br. f. Jest, Sister to Joke, by Waxy. 
Lord Egremont's br. c. Brothei' to Mountebank, by Gohanna. 

Sweepstakes of IGOgs. each, b. ft. foi- colts, 8st. Sib. — ^TheNcfW Mile. 

Lord Jersey's colt, by Haphazard, out of Ipswich's dam. 
Mr. Northey's colt, by Gamenut, out of Seafowl. 
"Mr. Page's colt, Jay Giles, dam by Woodpecker. 

NEWCASTt» 



THE RACING CALENDAR. 

NEWCASTLE MEETING, 18131. 
(Closed 9n the Ut of March,) 



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ll^'EDNBSDAY. ^The Silver Cup, valoe (50gs. given by the Cor- 

poratioD of Newcastle, added to a Sweepstakes of 5gs. each, for 
all ages ; three-year-oldsi y^t, and four-year-olds, 8st. 3lb. — Fillies and 
geldings to he allowed 3lh.-^Heats,two miles and a quarter each.— The 
Owner of the second to receive 20gs. out of the Stake. 

Lord Strathmore*8 b. c. by Remembrancer, out of Beatrice, 

Sir W. Gerard's b. c, Don Rodrigo, by Windle, 4 yrs old. 

Sir W. Maxwell's b, c. Trnssy, by Remembrancer, 3 yrs old. 

Mr. Lanil)ton*8 b. f. Limblifter, by Beningbrough, 4 yrs old. 

Mr. Brandling's br. c. Fred, by Dick Andrews, 3 yrs old. 

Mr. Ridley's b. g. Beefeater, by John Bull, 4 yrs old. 

Mr. Riddell's br. f. Grizilda, by Hamhletoniau, 4 yrs old. 

Mr. Anderson's br. c. Hamlet, by Expectation, 4 3rrs old. 

Mr. Scarisbrick's b. g. Master Ryby, by Remembrancer, 4 yrs old. 

Mr. Oliver's ch. c. by Sancho, out of Golden-Locks, 3 yrs old. 

Mr. N. B. Hodgson's gr. c. iEther, by Fatroclus, out of Friscilla, 3 ym 

old. 
General Seddon's b. jc* Brother to Ckimelius, by Remembrancer, 3 yrs 

old. 
Mr. Hufchinson^s b. f. by Remembrancer, dam by Sir Feter, 3 yrs old« 
Mr. Boazman's br. f. by Hambletonian, out of Cotillion, 3 yrs old. 

The Macaroni Stakes of 15gs. each, for horses, &c. — Gentlemen riders* 

Four miles. 
Mr. Treacher's b. g. by Traveller, aged, 12st. 
Mr. Tatton Sykes's gr. c. Trajan, by Stamford, 4 yrs old, lOst. 1 lib. 
Mr. Lambton's b. h. Falconer, by Eitgle, out of Diddler*s dam, 5 yrs oU^ 

list. gib. 
Mr. H. Brown^s br. c. by Stamford, dam by Star, 4 yrs old, lOst. lilb. 



LANCASTER MEETING, 1813. 

^HE Gold Cup, value lOOgs. added to a Sweepstakes of lOgs. eacb^ 

for all ages.— -Four miles. 
Duke of Hamilton's br. c. Udolpho, by Sorcerer^ 4 yrs old, 8st. 
Duke of Hamilton's br. c. by Governor, out of Enterprise, 4 yrs old, 8st» 
Mr.Tatham's b. c. Master Richard, by Dick Andrewsj 4 yrs old, 8sC« 
Mr. Worswick's br. c. Flougbboy, by Governor, 4 yrs old, 8st, 
Mr. M'Minnie's b. c. Sligo, Brother to Staveley, 4 yrs old, 8st. 
Mr. Towers's ch. c. by Young PIpator, out of the Arabiaa Mare, 2eljDi^ 

3 yrs old, Gst. 6lb. 
Colonel Williams's br. h. Worcester, by Sir Oliver, Syrsold, 8st. Sib.. 
Colonel Clayton's br. h. Squib, by Sorcerer, $ yrs old, 8sr. 81b. 

Mr. Trafford and Mr, Itomax did not name. 

RICHMOND 



7« TH£ RACING CALBNDAIL 

RICHMOND AIEBTINO. 1813. 

I 

•pUESDAY. Sweepstakes of iOgs. cacb, for tbf cc-years old filli^> 

. ^st 3lb.-^0uce round.tbe Cquw, » • 

t)uke of Leeds's cbesnut, by SeUni^ dam by Stride. 
Lord Fitzwilliam's bay, Platowua, by Sir Paul, out of Evelioa. . 
Lord Dynda^'s bay, by Orville, out of Sylpb. 
Mr. Barrett's cbesnut. Miss Platoti', by Bemenibraocef. 
Mr. Hutchinson's bay, by Remembrancer, dam by Sir Peter. 
Mr. Hewctt'ybay, by Stamford, out of Miss Buckle. 

WEDNESDAY.— Sweepstakes of .20gs. eacb, for threc-yeare-ott 
colts, 8st. 2lt>. fiHfes,dst.— A winner of any Stakes ot ]81d, to canf 
Sib. and of the St. Leger Stakes '5U>. extra.— Once i*ound the Course. • 
Duke of Leeds's b. f. by Beningbrougb, ovt of Fraxinella. 
Lord Dundas's b. c. by St. George, dam by Mr. Ricbar<lso>n*s Marsk. 
Lord Milton's b.c. Fugitive, by Caniillus, outof CecHia. 
Mr.Hibk's' cb. cSandy-Manik, by Selin), out of Dick Andrews's dak 
Mr. RiddelVs b« c. Don Carlof , by Sir Charles, dam Ky £«ecape. 
lir. Sqarisbrick's b« c« Cbagi'ki, by Sascho, dsttn by <>hero«. 

THURSDAY. Sweepstakes of 20g8. each, for two-ye««-d4 

colts, Sst. 2lb. fillies, 8st.*— From the Grey Stone to the Ending-Post. 
Duke of Leeds's b. f. by Orville, out of Trumfietta. 
Sir W. Gerard's b.f. $opby». by Youog Chariot, out of Lady Sarah. 
Mr. Cbalonefs b. c. by Shuttle, out of Anna-Bella's dam. 
Mr. Fletcher's br. f. by Williamson's Ditto, out of Sligo's Sister. 
Mr. Lambtou's bay colt, AdTentiirer, by Haphazard, dam by Voloa^ 
teer. . 



. STAMFORD MEETING, 1BI3. 

^nUESDA Y. Sweepstakes of Mgt. eacb, for three-years-old colts, 

-■■ 88t. 7lb. fillies, Sst. 4ib.— Maidens to be allowed 3 lb.— Once round 

the Course and a diatapce. 

Sir G. Heathcote's b. c. by Orville, bought of Mr. Eatoo. 

Mr. Wiben's b. f. Sister to Lady Sophia, by Sancho. 

Lord Fitz William's b. c. Fugitive, by Camillus. 

Mr. Andrew's bf. f. Lufra, by Walton. 

Mt, Oswald's bl: f. Indiana, by Sorcerer, out of Tiny. 

Mr; Watson's b; f. by Alonzo, out of Dodona. 

Mr. Tibbitt's b. c. by Stamford, dam by Beningbrongh. 

Mr. Green's b. f Sancha, by Sancbo, dam by Sir Peter. 

« Colonel Noel is a Subscriber, but did not name. 

WEDNESDAY— The Gold Cyp, value lOOgs. by Subscribers oj 
lOgs. each« fcr ail •ges.^^Four miles. 
Sir G. Heathcote's b. e^ bv^OrvillaySyrs old,68t. 
Mr. Wiisoa'9 b. c. Wisdooi, by Sir Solomon, 4 yrs <Hd^ f%t 7lb. ^ . 



THE RACING CALENDAR. 75 

Lord Lowther's gr. c. Aquarius, by Quiz, 4 yrs old, 7*t. 7lhu 

Mr. Tibhitt's br. c. Pericles, by Evander, 4 yrs old, 7st. Jib. 

Major WUsoa*s bi. g. by Sorcerer, dam by Stamford^ 4 yrs old, Jst 41b, 

•Lord Laodsey's b, f. Nettlebam-Lass, by Alexaa<ier tbe Great, 4 yis old^ 

7«t. 4U». 
Mr. Fletcber*8 cb. g. iElsculapius, by Stamford, aged, 8st. 13lb. 
Mr. Sisaon's cb. in. Folly, by Young Drone, 5 yrs old, 8st. 4ib.. 
Col. Noel and Mr. S. O'Brieu did not name. 



ORMSKIRK MEETING, 18)3. 

IpiRST DAY.— The Produce Stakes of 20gs. each, with 20gs. added^ 
for tbree-y ears-old colts, Sst. 4lb. fillies, 8st. — Two mile's. — ^Tbosa 

got by untried Stallions, &r. to be allowed Sib. 

Sir W. Gerard's b. c. by Beningbroi>gt>, out of Mary-Ann. 

Bir W. Gerard's ch. c. by Young Chariot, (or Windle) out of Vanguard^ 
alb. 

Lord Oxford's ch. f: by Warriar, out of a Sister to Kiltoti, 3lb. 

Duke of Hamilton's b.f. by Sir Paul, out of Louisa, 3lb. 

Mc. BcBdtt*B cb. c. by Warrior, dam by Dungaonou, 3lb. 



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STOCKBRIDQE MEETING, 1813. 

"piRST RACE. Sweepstakes of 50gs. each, for three-years-old 

•■■ colts, 8st. 7l.b. fiJHes, 8st. 3lb.— One mile wad a batf. 
Mr. Calley'sbr. n. Elyraas, by Witchcraft, dam by Dragon. 
Sur H. Lippincott's b. f. by Barbarossa, out of LiiciUa. 
Mr. Fanjuharson's b. f. by Gamenut, out of Cracker, 
Mr. Radclyffe's b. f. by Walton, out of Margaretta's dam* 
Mr. Cox's fiUy, by Witchcraft, oat of Trasbw's <lam. 



NOTTINGHAM MEETING, 1813. 

jyjR. Bettison's colt, by Staveley, dam by Alfred, 8st. against Mr. 
Green*s b. f. by Sancho, dam by Sir Peter, 78t. 1 lib. two miles, 
50gs. h. ft. 

Mr. Bettison's ch. c. by Stamford, dam by Beningbrough, 8st. agst 
Mr. Green's gr. f. by Young Whiskey, out of LicbBeld's dam, by King 
Fergus, 7st. 1 lib. two miles, 50gs. h. ft. 



NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 1813. 

JM[ONDAY. Colonel Udney's Truffle, 4 yrs old, Sst. ©lb. agst Lord 

Foley's b. c. Benedict, by Remembrancer, out of Beatrice, S yrt 
old, 7st. 12lb. R' M. dOOgs. b. ft. 

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76 THE RACING CALENDAlt 

FIRST SPRING MEETING, 1813. 

\/l^' l&nien^s Holyhock, by Master Bagot^ aged, Sst. IcHb. ag>t the 
r ^ Duke of Rutland's Elizabeth, by Orvillc, 3 yis old, 88t 2lb.^ 
CouFse and sum not mentioned in the account sent to us.->>Sii^to 4 on 
Elizabelb. ' I 



SECOND SPRING MEETING, 1813. 

1^0NDAY.^«—— Sweepstakes of One Hundred Guineas each.-«DitcIi 
-"'^^Mile. 

Jges. st tt. 

Sir J. Shrfley's Phantom 5 yr* 9 10 

Colonel Udaey's Trqffle ^ yrs 'Q 6 

Mr. Lambton*8 Legerdemain . . . • .^ 5 yi'S 8 3 

Mr. PigQtt*s Manti^amun. • , . 6 yrs 8 3 

Lord G. H. Cavendish's Eccleston ....Cfyrs 8 3 

Mr. Payne's Crispm, by Waxy, 6 yrs « old,^ Qst. against Mr* Bnicn*a 
Holyhock^ aged, 8st. B. C. 2000gs* h. ft. — Even Ijetting. 



YORK SPRING MEETING, 1815. 

npUESDAY.^— f^weepstakes of lOQgs. each, h. ft. for colts, 6st. sXlf^ 

fillies, 8st. 2lb. (now foals).-.— One mile. 
Duke of Leeds'^ b. g. by Stride, dam by Pandojpho. . 
Lord Fitzwilliam's b. f, by Clinker, out of Pewett. 
Sir M. M. Sykes's filly, by Camillus, out of Statira. 
Mr. Baker's cb. c. by Castrel, out of Lancasbire Witch, by Mr. Teazle^ 
Pir G. Armytage's b. f. Mary, by Hambletonian, outof Roxana. 



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